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Akantaiba No. I

  • Authors: Mulobo Maswa and Soga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kamodi f-ug
  • Language: Soga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171561 , vital:42091 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR142-08
  • Description: These two versions of the same flute were recorded by Mulobo Maswa in September 1950 and again in June 1952. He has been the offical flute player to the royal house of the Kyabazinga of the Soga people, ever since he was a young boy. The first version was recorded after midnight under a starlit sky, and in the second version he was accompanied by two old friends on the drum. The audience sitting around him had to join in as well. The tune "Akantaiba" is taken from a song said to be a century or two old which says, "If your wife is rude to you, she loves another. If your servant is rude to you, he wants to leave you." Flute tune with Ndele, end blown, notched and 4 holed flute (14.2-).
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Akantaiba No. II

  • Authors: Mulobo Maswa and Soga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kamodi f-ug
  • Language: Soga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171566 , vital:42092 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR142-09
  • Description: These two versions of the same flute were recorded by Mulobo Maswa in September 1950 and again in June 1952. He has been the offical flute player to the royal house of the Kyabazinga of the Soga people, ever since he was a young boy. The first version was recorded after midnight under a starlit sky, and in the second version he was accompanied by two old friends on the drum. The audience sitting around him had to join in as well. The tune "Akantaiba" is taken from a song said to be a century or two old which says, "If your wife is rude to you, she loves another. If your servant is rude to you, he wants to leave you." Flute tune with Ndele, end blown, notched and 4 holed flute (14.2-).
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Bwomera envu

Kagherere nensiri

Mulimo omutanda

Wakalangala

Kate kalume

  • Authors: Mulobo Maswa and Soga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bugembe f-ug
  • Language: Soga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171639 , vital:42103 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR142-16
  • Description: The Soga, like the Ganda people, often keep their cattle indoors at night. The song refers to those who neglect their bulls and oxen by leaving them out in a Kraal where they are bitten by mosiquitoes. Bulls, they say, deserve to be treated as well as the other cattle. Topical song, with 8 Magwala gourd horns side blown, 2 laced conical drums (-14.51201-), 2 pinned, footed goblet drums (-14.51201-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Waiswa Mugude

  • Authors: Mulobo Maswa and Soga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bugembe f-ug
  • Language: Soga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171650 , vital:42104 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR142-17
  • Description: The song refers to a man called Waiswa Mugude said to be a sorcerer. He cast a spell on his friend who died. He was very sorry and beleived he had caused his friend's death by magic. So after the funeral he went to the grave with his magical animals to dance and appease his friend's spirit lest it should come back to destroy him also. Topical song, with 8 Magwala gourd horns side blown, 2 laced conical drums (-14.22303-), 2 pinned, footed goblet drums (-14.51201-)
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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