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We nkalemo yachile (The leader (lion) of the dance)

  • Authors: T. Sibakwe, N. Veleshiano and S. Mwansa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140123 , vital:37836 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-09
  • Description: "How many tribes are there? The Lamba, the Lenje, the Lumbo not forgetting the Kande, because we admire their language. We make fun of the Nyakyusa and the Kasai, on account of their dress; plain dresses are just as good. Look at a girl from the Mumbo region, she does not dress like a Kasai, yet look at her beautiful clothes. When you change over from your country dress, do not take quickly to town dresses and become a prostitute. Kalela dance song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wela welenu mama- o muku welada mi nshona (You must be clean, neat and tidy)

Wemb' ingcwaba

Wemka unlungu nelizwe

Wemka unlungu nelizwe

Wemuko ifwala mangapala (Father-in-law, father-in-law, do not kill me)

  • Authors: Chibuye Matolopa , 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/10962/134615 , vital:37183 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-03
  • Description: "Wemuko, wemuko, ifwala mangapala undipaira pamwana waangi ukufiala kulimilimo-we." "Father-in-law, father-in-law. Don't put on your rags, or kill me or my child. to create a child is work." The rags worn by diviners. Self-delectative song with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wen mama wanga (My mother)

Wena Bawondi Wela

  • 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/10962/149199 , vital:38814 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-06
  • Description: The words of this song make no sense. The woman leading this song was pleased at the long final note of the song being recorded and said "This thing (i.e. the loud speaker) kept up with me the whole way. 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

Wena Gawazane utotekwa himwinyi Kakowane (You, Gawazane, you will be married to Kakowane)

  • Authors: Sechene Kowani , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Africa Mozambique Mabote f-mz
  • Language: Tswa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136234 , vital:37352 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR029-06
  • Description: Kakowane, he said, was a mulatto living in his district (Self-delectative song with friction bow (Chisambi).
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wenda nemukwene wa mudinga (If you walk with your friend, tell him to walk discreetly)

Wenela

  • Authors: Mwayulukula , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Safwa (African people)--Music , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
  • Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde , Safwa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151866 , vital:39181 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-06
  • Description: The singer was Safwa from Mbeya district of Southern Tanganyika. The tune "Wenela" is sung, they say, when going to join up with the Witswatersrand Native Labour Association organization to work on the mines of South Africa and elsewhere. Self-delectative song with Pango board zither.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Weufwaya muchinshi She who would be respected)

Whistling as at Musevhetho by Muhwira dancers

Wimbe ngoma wulisalise ye-ye

Wo ye ye Ndaluwuluke (Woye - I am going forever)

Woho naizhi

Woho naizhi

  • Authors: Group of old Hlubi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Tembu (African people) , Field recordings , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139678 , vital:37767 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR050-04
  • Description: Some very spirited solo performances were put up by individuals who dashed out of a line to take up a new song, each replacing the last man. The first song indicated that the hero of the song had a case to bring. The second, that he should be caught. The third one that he should be held, and so on. Each of the many singers and dancers liked to come out into the ring, shout his individual cries and introduce his own song. The occassional interpolation of a horn was made by blowing through an pld rubber bulb type motor-cycle horn. Mgibo pre-initiation dance with sticks.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wolala (Wolala, why! Wolala, I am leaving)

  • Authors: Young Xhosa men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150770 , vital:39004 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-04
  • Description: Wolala is a man's name. There are few if any words in the lyric. This was sung by a group of young people, the girls and boys rather younger than the first group and not so gaily dressed. The girls clap their hands and stamp one foot alternately swinging rhythmically forward and backward. Mtshotsho dance for young men and women with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Woman with headdress (1): Nkondlo, 1957

Xaxae ndi zwanya ludavhalisa

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