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Kulene mamama ndaimbirira, nikawa kapongo ndaimbirira (From far, mama, I sing. Give me a goat)

- Tenesi Mutanga and Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tenesi Mutanga and Tonga men , 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/10962/138288 , vital:37619 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-16
  • Description: In many African tribes the travelling entertainer or mendicant is a familiar figure, playing an instrument and dancing. He is usually rewarded with food and small presents and makes no bones about asking for them. Mendicant's song with sound of feet and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kuma (Beat)

- Group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Tonga men , 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/10962/138411 , vital:37634 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-06
  • Description: The drum was bent over towards the drummer and played with hands only. While three men with short pieces of stick tapped out rhythms on the body of the drum, each simple stick rhythm fitting into the next to build up a complex syncopation. Mayanze drinking songs with a Gayanda drum, hand beaten, the Gayanda being conical, single, open, pegged with 3 sticks tapped on the side of the drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kuma pumaingwe kuma

- Group of Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 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/10962/138625 , vital:37657 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-04
  • Description: The drummers first went away, gathered some swathes of grass in order to make a fire to heat drum membranes before playing and to bring them up to pitch. The wooden pegs were also hammered firmly into place to increase the tension on the drum heads. Masabe dance with 2 drums, hand beaten, pegged, 1 goblet (-14.5101-), 1 cylindrical.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kusekerwa

- Group of Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 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/10962/138008 , vital:37583 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-04
  • Description: The only headdress the women wear is a simple band or string round the head and passing over the forehead. They wear a few strings round their neck occassionaly. Their dress mainly consists of a short knee-length skirt and sometimes a bodice. They sometimes wear a good many copper or brass anklets. Skins are still worn as a covering for the upper part of the body. The men have no special dress, just the usual collection of tattered shirts, shorts and trousers. The implication of the second song is: "Now I am married, I don't know where I'm going to; I may have to sleep any where, perhaps in a tree, perhaps on a stone. Marriage song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kuzumana makua (Do not agree with Europeans)

- Chakobola Sheni, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chakobola Sheni , 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/10962/139077 , vital:37702 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-13
  • Description: The singer had his noise pierced (the tip of the septum), which until recently was a common practice among Tonga. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kwabula undiyanda (Nobody loves me)

- Joseph Munyeme and friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Joseph Munyeme and friends , 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/10962/138362 , vital:37626 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-02
  • Description: The Chief, who, they said was fond of drinking wished to take part in this song himself. The rest of the words are: "You might as well kill a dog." There was a large crowd as this is a large village and chief's headquarters. The Tonga make nicely constructed carved stools and many people in the crowd had brought their own tools to sit on. The Chief's clerk who acted as interpreter was called Robinson Siameja. Drinking song with clapping and 1 small goblet drum (Mundundu).
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kwerekwere munga, kwerekwere musamu (Pull, pull the munga-tree, pull, pull the rollers)

- Group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Tonga men , 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/10962/138225 , vital:37611 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-10
  • Description: Two singers were doing a pantomime of pulling a canoe over the sand. The munga tree is the one used for making canoes and appears to be the tamarind which grows to a considerable height and girth in the alluvial soils near the Zambezi and its small tributaries in the valley. In this part of the valley, very few canoes are used and they are not large: 20-30 feet only. Canoe launching song (Bgwato-canoe)
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Luano lwankanga ampie (The story of the man, the guineafowl and the blue jay)

- Group of young Tonga girls and children with Simon Sibgwela, Hugh Tracey

Luano lwawi sisiyala wagere (The story of a man who coveted his son's beautiful wife)

- Group of small Tonga girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of small Tonga girls , 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/10962/138517 , vital:37645 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-03
  • Description: The old woman to whom the hut belonged, in which this story was recorded, was smoking her hubble-hubble pipe just behind the children. Her old husband sat beside her, over the fire, smoking his pipe which was made of a hollow cane sem bowl with the base shaped like an animal. This story contains a common theme found in many other places-that is wrong for an elderly man to marry out of his age group and covet younger women. Story with songs.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Lwendenda mintanda mukainty Mulongo

- Group of Tonga men and women led by Joseph Munyeme, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Tonga men and women led by Joseph Munyeme , 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/10962/138846 , vital:37678 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-09
  • Description: "Mugogo" is the name of the smaller drum. "Lwendenda mintanda mukaintu Mulongo, maweli, maweli." "I love a woman called Mulongo, and because I travel so much I never have time to see her." The playing of the stick rhythms is a speciality of the Tonga. A number of men, in this case three, take a short stick each apiece, and taps out a simple rhythm which fits into the rhythms tapped by the others. The result is a complex syncopation. most difficult to analyse. The sticks may be tapped on any convenient object, such as a log of wood-in this case on the body of a drum which was not being used for this dance. Bugogo party dance with sticks and 1 small Gogogo drum beaten by hands.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ma chiwerewere (Pulling)

- Group of Tonga men and women, Hugh Tracey

Mabulo andeke (The wings of the aeroplane)

- Samuel Musange, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuel Musange , 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/10962/138599 , vital:37654 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-01
  • Description: For this dance all the drums are played with sticks and not with hands. The Masabe is danced when a diviner is consulted or called in for a sick person. Msabe dance song with 3 drums. (Mgogo: open, pegged and played with sticks. Masunta and Mpati, open, pegged and played with hands.)
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Maiyongwe (The owl's eggs)

- Joseph Munyeme and friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Joseph Munyeme and friends , 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/10962/138261 , vital:37616 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-14
  • Description: "The owl's eggs have flown up. Now has anyone else ever seen such a thing? Ho, ho, ho! I am the only person who has ever seen owl's eggs flying." Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 592, 528, 480, 432, 400, 356, 320, 296, 264, 240 vps. Humorous song with Kankowela mbira, with external resonator.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Malala (The powerful back)

- Masaria and other Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Masaria and other 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/10962/138143 , vital:37598 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-03
  • Description: This song were taken during the actual grinding of millet into meal outside a hut. The millet was a fine brown variety known as Munga in Rhodesia. This small work song is sometimes well known by everyone in the village and commonly used by the women as they grind their corn on the stone outside their hut, or they are individual compositions without a name and with few words to the lyrics. Grinding song accompanied by the sound of grindstone.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Malala wabila (Malala is crying)

- 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/10962/138535 , vital:37647 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-05
  • Description: "Malala is crying because she wants a baby. The wife of the headman has run away from her husband, because she has never had a child." Mankuntu dance song for boys and girls with 3 drums (Gogogo, Musunta, Mpati). The 1st was open, pegged and played with a stick. The 2nd and 3rd, open and pegged, and played by hands.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mamiye mami

- Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

Maulu, maulu, kakusike kumwebe (My feet are aching too much to take me home)

- Jimu Machinje and wife (Ngonya), Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Jimu Machinje and wife (Ngonya) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa zimbabwe Wankie f-rh
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139050 , vital:37699 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-10
  • Description: The song goes on: "My feet are hurting a lot. I wish you would take me to Dr. Smith to have a special injection. I may not get home, I may have to sleep on the way." Personal lament with mbira, gourd resonated, one manual plus 2 notes above right and left, gourd rattle and bell.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mayanze

- Group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Tonga men , 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/10962/138406 , vital:37633 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-05
  • Description: The drum called here called Gayanda is similar if not identical to the one called Musuntu which is used for the Makundu dance. The reason for this variation in naming was not explained. Mayanze drinking songs with a Gayanda drum, hand beaten, the Gayanda being conical, single, open, pegged with 3 sticks tapped on the side of the drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Me-me! Warira mpongo, warira mperera (Me-me, the goat is crying for the last piece of green food)

- Pansi Mwetwa and group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Pansi Mwetwa and group of Tonga men , 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/10962/138306 , vital:37621 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-18
  • Description: During the dry season and particulary before the summer rains begin in October to December, green food is scarce in the valley, and the domestic animals yearn for it, especially the goats. The entertainer no doubt likens himself to the goat straining for the tastely green food. Mendicant's song with sounds of stick in the background.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mobai

- Group of Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 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/10962/138617 , vital:37656 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-03
  • Description: This seems to be one of the Masabe dances for both men and women- connected with the worship or propitiation of souls or spirits called Masabe. The difference between the two does not appear to be clear cut but the Tonga recognize a number of spiritual entities which are connected with their respective Sabe dance. Masabe dance with 2 drums, hand beaten, pegged, 1 goblet (-14.5101-), 1 cylindrical.
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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