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Mwe baiyashi cenjeleni (My parents take care)

- B. Kabushi and D. Mwenya, Hugh Tracey

Ea Tuka (It burns)

- Malefetsane Mosese and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Malefetsane Mosese and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162139 , vital:40763 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-12
  • Description: "It is burning! An island is burning! Thaba Bosiu is burning! At the pass there are flames. Thaba Bosiu is burning. You will burn and burst into flames, you witches. You have left the son of God out on the veld. You will have to go back and fetch him. The island is burning!" The song refers to the wild storm which raged around the mountain Thaba Bosiu in 1957 which blew away the roof of a Church and did much damage to homes in the region. Although the song is an initiation song, it is couched in essentially Christian trems. Lengae men's initiation song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Amano yabula noko wemwana niwe nyatumbe? (Your mother is not very wise, how do you expect to be any wiser?)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and friends, Hugh Tracey

Gongondo

- Chopi women, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195109 , vital:45528 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR210-06
  • Description: This cider is made from the fruit of the Caju tree, (also spelt Cazhu and Cashew). The fruit consists of an apple, which is fermented for cider, and an external nut, the cashew nut, which is attached to the tip of the apple in a crescent shaped pod. The nut itself is edible but the hard pod in which it is encased is impregnated with virulent oil which must first be expelled by fire or distillation before the nut can be cracked open. It now forms an important part of the local economy. The cashew apples rippen in November and their harvest marks a time of annual indulgence for the Chopi and is frequently mentioned in song. Drinking song.
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  • Date Issued: 1949

Atshakongwe wamwe muno kuwala kwawo (The women of this country all wear the same kind of dress)

- Five Nyasa men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Five Nyasa men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Likoma f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160804 , vital:40547 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-06
  • Description: The drum was played with a stick in the left hand tapping on the side of the drum alternately with the head. The right hand kept up the rythm in the usual way. During this lively performnace the bottle player shattered his bottle into fragments, continuing to beat the neck of the beat which remained in his hand until that too disintegrated under the blows of the six inch nail. At the end of the first item the player dashed off to a nearby hut and produced the next best substitute, a new hoe blade. This recording was made by Nyasa workers at a Citrus Estate near Nelspruit, Eastern Transvaal. Party dance with double headed drum, concertina and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kalele kiwetu yamba mwana ambaya

- Large group of Kasai women, Hugh Tracey

Ananga kwa amai ndikanenaiyi (My children, what shall I say to my mother)

- Six elderly women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Six elderly women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155757 , vital:39913 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-10
  • Description: There were certain children of this village who were killed by a lion on their way home and the event was perpetuated in song by the girl who had to break the news to their mother. The players shake their rattles in unison until one gives the sign for the routine to begin. When they complete it and return to the beginning of the verse again. One woman was clapping. Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Fedina (Name of a man)

- Jason Kafunda and Chewa boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Jason Kafunda and Chewa boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mwadzama, Kotakota, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153990 , vital:39551 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-04
  • Description: "Fedina and John went to Salisbury. On their way John killed Fedina to get hold of his cloth which was better than his own. From Fedina's blood sprang a bird which sang a song telling of Fedina's death. So John was killed because of what he did, and the bird disappeared into the ground as the blood had done." The bird in circumstances such as this is constantly featured as a form of conscience or sense of guilt which brings the malefactor to justice. The blood of his friend brings the murderer to his end. "Fedina. Fedina is dead. He was dead because of a cloth."
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Arimau

- Njenje and Medje tipoyi carriers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Njenje and Medje tipoyi carriers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Medje f-cg
  • Language: Mangbetu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166797 , vital:41405 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0120-06
  • Description: "We are the Tipoyi carriers of the Chief." This song was performed by the tipoyi carriers of Chief Ebandrombi. In this heavily wooded country of central and north eastern Congo most of the Chiefs, notables and officials use the sedanchair as their principal means of transport along the narrow forest paths. This is an attractive melody reminiscent of melodies composed by the Bemba of Northern Rhodesia which are also characterized by singing in parallel thirds. Work song with basket rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Tikaone mwana (Let us see the child)

- Young Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young Chewa girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160547 , vital:40473 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-02
  • Description: This dance is usually accompanied by drums and is done at parties, weddings and other happy occasions. The drums were not available at the time of recording. "Let us go and see a child at Kachere. The child who likes to move about. You young maid, go to sleep nicely, if you don't I will beat you. White people are clever because they have made aeroplanes." Kasodo girls dance, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Alume yerani malo

- Kanga Mayele with Giryama men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kanga Mayele with Giryama men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Giryama (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malindi f-ke
  • Language: Giryama
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176603 , vital:42719 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-10
  • Description: The singer calls to those behind to hurry and catch up with the dance team as they are going to a big dance competition. This item is a fascinating example of the authentic 2 against 3 African cross rhythm. Msego dance song for men and women with Kayamba raft rattles and clapping (-12.03-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ngqika (A Xhosa Chief)

- Jury Mpelho, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Jury Mpelho , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135900 , vital:37310 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-03
  • Description: The song is about the cattle of Ngqika, a famous Xhosa chief, and how beautiful they were. "We, the Africans of Ngqika, we pay our lobola in cattle. Our cattle are beautiful with well-shaped spreading horns, and we drive them like this, like this. (senjenje, senjenje) to the kraal of the girl's father." Town dance with small band including a piano, saxaphone, trumpet, guitar and drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Bankulu ne yumba

- Group of 7 Luba men and 1 woman, Hugh Tracey

Intombi zipelile (The girls are finished)

- Group of young Mpondo men and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo men and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136362 , vital:37368 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-02
  • Description: The young men were mostly wearing pale blue blankets and carrying sticks; the girls were beautifully beaded. They wore their hair in many fine plaits hanging on either side of the face. Over this was worn the tubular bead headring or headband, (if the girl was unmarried) mostly in pale blue and white beads, many strands of sky blue and white beads wound about their necks to form choker collars. Song for Indlam' dance, with clapping of sticks.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mushimba eloli odemufija

- Nutjavavali Nifikua and Kwanyama men, Tracey, Hugh

Ne mwati kokuti

- Vaino Namukuambi and young men, Tracey, Hugh

Heehee ndithe gebelele

- Group of Qwathi women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Qwathi women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Herbalists , Africa South Africa Engcobo f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134841 , vital:37211 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0022-02
  • Description: In the course of this divination song, they broke off for a woman to call out after the fashion of the diviners, to which everyone clapped their hands replying "siya vuma", "we agree". Song for diviner's ceremony with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Leka nzunule

- Andurosi Banda, Tumbuka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Andurosi Banda , Tumbuka boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185086 , vital:44326 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-05
  • Description: A new young people's dance. The boys dance in a group and the girls in another within the circle, the two drummers standing on one side. It consists of a number of simple rhythmic steps. The sound of the drums and whistle overshadows the voices in the recording, which in fact is the impression gained by spectators outside the circle of dancers. Saca dance song for boys and girls with two Maanje goblet drums, clapping (-12.03-) and whistles (-11.515-)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Zaina wasala madembe (Those that are left behind)

- Simenti Phiri, Hugh Tracey

Ndodya mutombo

- o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez, Gomez, F, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez , Gomez, F , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1955
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar music , Africa Mozambique Chibuto f-mz
  • Language: Ndau
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131992 , vital:36783 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-05 , Field card no. H1P-10
  • Description: "Doctor must cure doctor." When a doctor (nyanga) falls sick, he must seek another nyanga to cure him, as he cannot know the medicine to cure himself. This tune would make an excellent round. One of three topical songs with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1955
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