Nenye angupu
- Authors: Medje men , 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/10962/166770 , vital:41402 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0120-02
- Description: "We honour our Chief, we are ready for him to inspect our work." The song is performed when Chief arrives in a village on a visit. The Medje tribe in a fertile palm forest region south of the small town of Paulis. The music is strangely reminiscent of that of the Bemba from the South Eastern borders of the Congo and Northern Rhodesia a thousand miles away. Praise song for a Chief with 4 conical drums, 1 large bell drum, 2 pod drums, 1 small cylindrical drum, 2 small slit drums, 1 double metal bell, basket rattles and metal hand bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Medje men , 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/10962/166770 , vital:41402 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0120-02
- Description: "We honour our Chief, we are ready for him to inspect our work." The song is performed when Chief arrives in a village on a visit. The Medje tribe in a fertile palm forest region south of the small town of Paulis. The music is strangely reminiscent of that of the Bemba from the South Eastern borders of the Congo and Northern Rhodesia a thousand miles away. Praise song for a Chief with 4 conical drums, 1 large bell drum, 2 pod drums, 1 small cylindrical drum, 2 small slit drums, 1 double metal bell, basket rattles and metal hand bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Odjea
- 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/10962/166788 , vital:41404 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0120-05
- Description: "Come quickly father, we are fighting with a leopard." Any subject can be the theme for a sedan chair song. The four carriers walk in file, each pair lifting the chair by means of a yoke, before and after, with the chair itself in between. Relief carriers walk in front and behind. Work song with basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- 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/10962/166788 , vital:41404 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0120-05
- Description: "Come quickly father, we are fighting with a leopard." Any subject can be the theme for a sedan chair song. The four carriers walk in file, each pair lifting the chair by means of a yoke, before and after, with the chair itself in between. Relief carriers walk in front and behind. Work song with basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952