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Ulushimi lwa mukashana ne nsupa ya mfumu (The story of the girl and the chief's calabash)

- Agnes Bwenpe and group of small girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Agnes Bwenpe and group of small girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Bancroft Mine f-za
  • Language: Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151806 , vital:39173 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-16
  • Description: There was once a Chief who had a favourite wife to whom he gave a calabash. Now this Chief disappeared. One day she with the calabash, she found herself sailing down the river in it, and as she sang: "Ulushimi lwa mukashana ne nsupa ya mfunu." She sailed amongst the fish, some of which wanted to eat her. But she sang to them and they let her go. Afterwards she fell amongst crocodiles. But they too let her go when she sang to them and eventually she found herself in a village and gave it to the chief and put her in a hut where she was badly bitten by insects. However she did not kill any of them, as she was a kind and gentle woman. Then the chief sent word that she must come and undergo a test. Which was to pick out her own calabash from amongst many others. As she went one of the insects said to her: "Choose that calabash you see a fly settle on." So, when she swa all the calabashes spread out before her, she waited for a fly to settle on one. It settled on the smallest and she picked it up and said: "This is mine." Whereon the chief came out of his hut and to her amazement it was her own husband who said: "Now I know this is my own wife, because she recogonizes the calabash I once gave her." Isimi story with song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umama litshipa (Mother is an absconder)

- Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Umbala (Colour)

- Group of young Xhosa men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Xhosa men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150412 , vital:38973 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-03
  • Description: This group of "Amakwenkwe" (young unitiated men) all wrapped in red blankets, carrying sticks and wearing bead leggings, sang very well with gravity and intersity. They were all under 18 years of age. In the interval between the songs, they went off to fetch their sticks and struck them together during the song to mark the rhythm. Three group fighting song, with sticks and whistles.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umdudo (Name)

- Group of Gcaleka women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Gcaleka women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Idutywa f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150940 , vital:39019 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-02
  • Description: This song was sung on a bright sunny afternoon by 20 Gcaleka women all dressed in their ochre coloured blankets or shawls, sitting on the ground near the cattle kraal. The great open downs of the Transkei rolling away on every side to the mountains in the West and blue Indian ocean to the east. Circumcision song for the Abakweta dance with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umfazi uyabalega (His wife has run away)

- Group of young Mpondo girls and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo girls and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136587 , vital:37394 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-07
  • Description: Clapping accampanied by a rapping on the drums greeted Chief Botha whenever he appeared. Each dance song began with the boys kneeling, singing each into his cupped hand, bobbing and swaying to the rhythm whilst the girls stood nearby, exactly like in the previous item. At a given signal the boys rose and went on dancing standing up. The word "Gubura" is pronounced "GHUBUKHA" (Kh as in loch). The peculiar leopard like snarl, or cough or grunt which the Xhosa make in their throats is noticeable throughout these songs. They are very fond of making it out of context, just as an exclamation. Gubura dance for young people.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umfweni ubwite (Listen to the call)

- Members of the christian Mission to Many lands, E. Chiyanta, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Members of the christian Mission to Many lands , E. Chiyanta , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Hymns, Bemba , Africa Zambia Chingola f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135394 , vital:37264 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-08
  • Description: Hymn No. 82 in the ms. hymnbook of the sect. The members of this group were Luunda, singing in Bemba. The founder of the group was an African named Law, who was originally on the staff of the local Mine Hospital. Original Separatist Hymns.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umgaq' uphum' entabeni

- Group of Baca Men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Umgquzo (Where is my blanket? It is in the forest)

- Group of Mpondo women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo women , 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/10962/136370 , vital:37369 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-03
  • Description: This dance was performed by the married women standing in a circle. In the second part of the song they say: "The person who grinds the corn for the beer has a lot to say."- Some of the women had painted their faces with pale yellow ochre.- They wore pale blue blankets, were lavishly decorated with beads, mostly in sky blue and white, wore calf length beaded skirts, and a great many brass wire bracelets. In some cases, the typical headring was made of a leather strap (a dog's collar) studded with brass studs, edged and fringed with sky blue and white beads. Umgouzo girl's initiation dance.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umtsha wam' uyayizulisa ingqondoyam (My lover sends me out of my mind)

- Group of young Mpondo married woman, Hugh Tracey

Undebulisele ku Lungwengwe (Give my best wishes to Lungwengwe, also to your mother)

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Hugh Tracey

Ungewu

- Group of Baca Men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Upendeka kukama (Nicely combed hair)

- Ruth, Jane Muchindu and group of Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ruth, Jane Muchindu and group of Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138544 , vital:37648 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-06
  • Description: Pairs of dancers, girl and boy, came out and danced a rather stiff little dance together and then returned to the crowd, as another pair took their place. "When you go to town, do not tell my lover I am nearly a full grown girl, so that he will continue working and come back and find me quite grown up. Mankuntu dance song for boys and girls with 3 drums (Gogogo, Musunta, Mpati). Open and pegged, and played by hands.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Uruchantege

- Group of Hutu drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Hutu drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Kishuyi f-rw
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183625 , vital:44016 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-07
  • Description: The drums are not the normal drums used in Ruanda (Rwanda) but substitutes. The timekeeper was playing on the same head as the leader which is not correct, in the villages each man having his own drum. The click of sticks can consequently be heard as they strike each other. The players were a small informal group of Hutu miners over 600 miles from home working at the Kolwezi Copper Mine. Yet home style drumming was their particular joy and constant recreation. At approximately 3 minutes, they appear to change to the Urukina tatoo. This tatoo underlines again the fundamental difference of apprach to drumming between the Hima and the Bantu. Although the Hutu speak a Bantu language and are originally of Bantu descent there is widespread intermarriage between them and the Hima overlords, the Tutsi, and the Hima attitude to music and drumming appears to have persisted. Three drum rhythms, three laced conical drums
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Uruchantege

- Group of Hutu drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Hutu drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Kishuyi f-rw
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183644 , vital:44018 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-09
  • Description: The drums are not the normal drums used in Ruanda (Rwanda) but substitutes. The timekeeper was playing on the same head as the leader which is not correct, in the villages each man having his own drum. The click of sticks can consequently be heard as they strike each other. The players were a small informal group of Hutu miners over 600 miles from home working at the Kolwezi Copper Mine. Yet home style drumming was their particular joy and constant recreation. At approximately 3 minutes, they appear to change to the Urukina tatoo. The name of this tatoo was annoinced at the beginning. During the playing the leader broke four sticks one after the other, his friends handing him substitutes. The sticks were only short pieces of wood not the correct spoon headed carved beaters used in ther own country. This tatoo underlines again the fundamental difference of apprach to drumming between the Hima and the Bantu. Although the Hutu speak a Bantu language and are originally of Bantu descent there is widespread intermarriage between them and the Hima overlords, the Tutsi, and the Hima attitude to music and drumming appears to have persisted. Three drum rhythms, three laced conical drums
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Utakata ngsandhla sako (Yo have laid me under a spell with your hands)

- Group of young Mpondo men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136723 , vital:37410 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-08
  • Description: The leader says: "You have laid me under a spell with your hands." To which the girls answer: "You, enhanting with your hands." Party song for young people with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Uxam (The Iguana)

- Young men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150448 , vital:38977 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-07
  • Description: The singers were a very cheerful group of young Xhosas in ordinary shirts and trousers with occasionally a touch of gaiety in the form of a beaded cap, a gay knitted wollen girdle in stripes of pink and dark blue, with many large wollen tassels depending from it and rosettes of pearl buttons attached here and there. One boy had a shirt with Xhosa words printed on it. They all wore many gay plastic bangles on their wrists. A spectator standing by, dressed in a rather shabby old shirt and trousers had turned up his trousers at the bottoms to display a solid mass of dozens of strands of beads wound about his ankles-yellow, scarlet, blue (dark) and turquoise and apple green. A group fighting song, with sticks struck together.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Uxam ugezile usind'indlu ngodaka (The iguana is very silly)

- Iqela Labavumi bakwa Zwelitsha (Zwelitsha Choral Society), Hugh Tracey

Uyabaleka wemungoma hmu (The diviner runs away)

- Group of young Hlangwini men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
  • Language: Southern Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151484 , vital:39134 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-06
  • Description: This group of young men had evidently been to the gold mines for they were all wearing the full mine trousers decorated with blue patches. One of them "Shortie" was the cause of much gaiety to the women spectators, who called out (in Baca) "try standing a bit higher, Sho'tie". His trousers were so long and billowing that even when they were hitched up round the knee, they fell in full and graceful folds like a skirt. Ndhlamu dance song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Uyinkuku nje waibamba (Hold the fowl with your own hands)

- Men of Tuku's of Tuku Location, Hugh Tracey

Uyu

- Janeth Bologo, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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