Banakashi tabalila (Women's tears do not mean a thing)
- Authors: Isaac Matafwana and Sunkutu , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135152 , vital:37242 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-10
- Description: "Women's tears do not mean a thing! Their eyes shed tears while they sing with their lips." The form of this song is typically folk in its continued refrain. The situation to which the singer appears to refer, is the funeral dance in which the women sing lustily for the dance, while artificially inducing tears to fall in respect for the dead. Topical song with guitar and bottle
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- Date Issued: 1957
BaNakatekwe
- Authors: Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
- Language: Aushi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139985 , vital:37820 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-11
- Description: BaNakatekwe, the "Champion", does not delight in having children-no, only in money." "Champion" is one of the local synonym for "prostitute." Topical song with guitar, bottle and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Banana bana Kayata
- Authors: Group of Luvale men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Mbunda (African people)--Zambia , Luvale (African people) , Luchazi (African people) , Chokwe (African people) , Folk songs, Chokwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kalawo f-za
- Language: Mbunda , Subiya , Luvale , Luchazi , Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184162 , vital:44179 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR184-09
- Description: The friction drum is a simple membrane drum with the lower end open. A stick is pierced through a hole in the centre of the membrane and hangs inside the body of the drum being suitably attached to the membrane by small cross pieces pierced through the stick itself. The player usually sits on the ground with the drum resting on his legs, the open end towards his body. Having moistered his hands (or sometimes a cloth) with water he sets the membrane in vibration by the friction of his hands pulling the stick downwards towards him. In this way a roaring sound is made and rhythms produced by alternating the stroke between the two hands. It is essential to keep the two hands wet, water having the same effect as resin on a violin bow. Drinking song with 1 Pwita friction drum and percussion
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- Date Issued: 1957
Banda mai dodile lulanda
- Authors: Myundu Gabriel (Dilele munenge flute) , Kwadi Bonza (Chisanzhi) , Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kabongo f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183891 , vital:44081 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-02
- Description: When asked why they played music like this, they replied, "To give our haters courage." In view of the severe troubles with which they and their people were to be confronted in the years ahead one can only hope that their music did indeed give them and their families that courage to face their ordeals in the Kasai and the Katanga so shortly to overtake them. The flute player uses voiced notes while he blows. The music is sometimes played to the "Sultan", the chief, 'in order to refresh his spirit'. Nyundu Gabriel said that when he was feeling sad, tired of depressed he would play this music to cheer himself up. The Chisanzhi (Mbira) keeps up a fascinating accompaniment. (See also TR 39 and TR 40). Self delectative song with sibe blown flute and Chisanzhi (-13.37206 x 18-)
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bankulu ne yumba
- Authors: Group of 7 Luba men and 1 woman , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kabongo f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137840 , vital:37565 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-13
- Description: The singers make use of organum in their harmonies. The two drums are complimentary to each other with quite distinctive tones, the one having a clear hollow tone and the other a buzzing tone. Fwila dance song with 1 smaill goblet drum, closed, pinned, hand beaten, and 1 box drum, hand beaten and tapped on side.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bantamba fituka (The magician)
- Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134666 , vital:37188 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-05
- Description: A certain wizard, so the story goes, once caught a secretary bird and brought it into his house alive in order to use it for magical purposes and for killing other people. Now, this man soon died and left this secretary birf behind. So he sings this song to mock who use magic because they will surely die, just the same. :There are foolish men who leave their families unprovided for while they go off with prostitutes." "There is sadness which envelopes a child when its parents die, and a sadness also which envelopes a parent when its child dies." Self-delectative song with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira, mbira with external resonator.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bata wasunga mulundu
- Authors: Performer not specified , Edward Kalunga (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lala (African people) , Africa South Africa Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133692 , vital:37005 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR014-04
- Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele mbira fan-shaped, with external resonator and mirliton
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bathi abafana ndisandindazana ((Young men call me a beauty)
- Authors: Gcaleka women and girls , 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/10962/150965 , vital:39023 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-06
- Description: The whole crowd of about 60 women and girls swayed from foot to foot as they sang with great enthusiasm.It is clearly a well known and much loved tune in this region. Drinking song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bawo nilele na? (Fathers, are you sleeping)
- Authors: Fingo and Mfengu women of Tuku Location , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Circumcision , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135814 , vital:37301 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR026-08
- Description: Circumcision song for boys with clapping
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bayathetha abantwana ndinendaba (Children are speaking because I have news)
- Authors: Gcaleka boys and girls , 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/10962/151224 , vital:39041 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-10
- Description: The girl playing this mouth bow whistles out of the side of her mouth as well as resonating the notes in the usual manner. She used the open string and a stopped note, stopping it with her thumbnail and first finger. The use of this indigenious instrument and its style of music explains the ease with which Gcaleka people take to the small concertina. The harmonies produced in the mouth being on the true harmonic series makes the transition to the concertina a simple matter for simple tunes. Notes of the bow, 292 and 260. Mtshotsho dance for boys and girls with Ikinki mouth resonated musical bow.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bayeza kusasa (They are coming tomorrow)
- Authors: Group of Xhosa women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136122 , vital:37340 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-08
- Description: Thsi was sung by a group of about 50 Gcaleka women all dressed in their traditional costumes with shawls and skirts made of "Kaffir sheeting" coloured with yellow or russet red ochre. Divination song with clapping,
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bayeza kusasa (They are coming tomorrow)
- Authors: Group of Mpondo and Sotho men led by Siganeko Nonkonyana , 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/10962/136487 , vital:37383 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-06
- Description: "The sick people are coming tomorrow-They are bringing money." The day's recording at the Great Place of the Paramount Chief of the Mpondo ended with 3 songs by this group of Mpondo and Sotho men. Diviner's (Herbalist's) song with clapping and drums.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bayile
- Authors: Villagers from Dabi's location near Peddie , 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/10962/149190 , vital:38813 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-05
- Description: The words of this song make no sense. The people of this district are actually Fingo or Mfengu but speak Ngqika. Their ancestors were refugees from Shaka and came here from Swaziland over 120 years ago. The song is sung before initiation, when the young man is old enough to undergo his ordeal. Circumcision song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bemu tuvoni memba
- Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134064 , vital:37067 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-06
- Description: "When you drink beer, it sparkles and tingles against your tonsils! When the beer is ready you must send a boy round to tell your friends."
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bena Kazembe balitumpa
- Authors: Performer not specified , Edward Kalunga (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lala (African people) , Africa South Africa Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133678 , vital:37003 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR014-02
- Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele mbira fan-shaped, with external resonator and mirliton
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Benoni
- Authors: Olive Alexander , Russel Planga , 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/10962/135992 , vital:37324 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-11
- Description: The soloist was Olive Alexander, the girl says:- "My mother doesn't like me, my father only cares for the cattle he will get for my lobola, my brother never brings me any clothes. So I will go to Benoni and stay with the Sotho and Zulu, I'll make friends there and life will be much gayer." Topical song with dance band.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bino Siabungu balu oba mboma, wewe (We 'honour' those who killed the mother of Siabungu)
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and 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/10962/138035 , vital:37586 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-07
- Description: The sound of the women's feet can be heard on the hard dusty ground. "Honour" is used in the opposite sense, really meaning "hate." In this song the usual African belief that death is caused by ill-wishing or magic, is implied. Funeral dance song with ensemble of Nyele end-blown antelope horns and Ngoma drums.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bome a ni lukela ky ntanda
- Authors: Bennt Falali abd Josias Kakambi Capiwe , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Caprivi f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183661 , vital:44041 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-02
- Description: Two simple times from the middle reaches of the upper Zambezi. Self delectative song with Kangombio (Mbira) fan shaped and mirliton, external resonator
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bondo
- Authors: Mamba Desire , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people)--Music , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kabinda f-cg
- Language: Luba/Lulua
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136966 , vital:37473 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR035-06
- Description: The song is sung on the occassion of the visit of an important man. "In other places they have greeted me with songs and rejoicing, here you must do the same or even better." The scale of the instrument as follows:- 472, 448, 356. 320, 264, 236, 224, 178, 160, 132. Greeting song for a Chief or notable, with 2 box chisanzhi, 1 chisanzhi-chinene, and 1 basket rattle.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Butaka
- Authors: Kasadi Celestin (Performer) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Kanyok (African people) , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kabinda f-cg
- Language: Kanyok
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133855 , vital:37025 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR015-07
- Description: Talking drum messages with Chondo slit drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957