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Miss Mababo

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo men and girls , 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/10962/136764 , vital:37416 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-12
  • Description: One of the young girls added the deep guttural rhythmic sounds peculiar to Xhosa singing. The singers were each of them singing into a slightly vibrating cupped hand. They were all lying on their stomachs on the grass wrapped in their blankets and looking like basking seals. Dance song for young people.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mjinana

Mjinana

Mkwaze

Mngoma uvelaphi

Mngoma uvelaphi (Hullo, where do you come from?)

Mngoma uvelaphi (Hullo, where do you come from?)

Mobai

  • 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

Mokhoroane (The dove)

  • Authors: Theko Moshesh , 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/10962/151619 , vital:39148 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-17
  • Description: The Lesiba is a wind blown stringed instrument, mostly played by herd boys as they herd their cattle on the hills. It consists of a slightly bent stick of abour 36-40 long. Along one side is strained a string, sometimes of horse hair or sinew, to one end of which is attached a section of fowl's quill. This is held in place by placing it between small double wedges held firmly in a small hole drilled into that end of the stick. Self-delectative song with Lesiba stick zither with quill.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mokorotlo with Lithoko

Molweni nonke (How do you do everybody)

Moyo wena Luluwe

  • Authors: Lulua Freres and group of Lulua men and women , 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 Kasai f-cg
  • Language: Luba/Lulua
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136921 , vital:37468 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR035-01
  • Description: The scale of these two instruments is not clear from these examples. It would appear to be heptatonic in one case and hexatonic or even pentatonic in the order. The fact that an adequate number on intervals exist in the lower octave and are not complete in either, argues an ablity to think heptatonically. The scale was as follows;- 404, 344, 308, 296, 252, 236, 202, 180, 160, 118, 101, 90. Bitanda kakunda dance with two Chizanshi box mbira, 2 basket rattles, whistle and hand clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mtshawzo (To dance)

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa/Gcaleka 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/10962/136142 , vital:37342 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-10
  • Description: The women of the Xhosa have special dances of their own, rather static, as might be expected of a people who live in a climate which can be very cold and wet, where most dancing must be done inside the huts to avoid the constant winds from the sea which drive over the downs. (Women dance for dancing at night inside the hut, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Muchima ngoyi muchungu

Mudima zenzele

Mudima zenzele (Mad bat)

Muganda we Chitonga Banda (The drum of the Tonga Banda)

  • Authors: Group of 16 Tonga men and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Tumbuka , Malawi , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Luvale/Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137369 , vital:37517 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR037-08
  • Description: The leader is Joni Phiri. "Haye Mwazadi mwanozga." "You have done well to come." The Malipenga dance of the Tonga and other tribes of north central Nyasaland was originated, they say, in military drill where it imitates. With African genius for converting what is normally a drudgery into a game, these Tonga made barrack square drilling into a form of enjoyable dance, with opportunities for all to shine in the grace of their movements. The instruments of the mirliton buzzers so that anyone who can sing a Tonga tune can equally well participate in the Malipenga band. Short gourds or horns are used for the higher pitched voices and longer for the bases. 4 Movements of the Malipenga dance, the first 2 with Chandi and Muganda drums, with 12 singing horns (calabash), 1 bass drum laced, cylindrical with 2 beaters.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mukala bwanga

  • Authors: Kabango Prospere and friends , Kabango Prospere , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ensemble playing , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135627 , vital:37283 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR025-04
  • Description: The song is a lament for a young man who fell to his death from a palm tree, when cutting the fruit for palm-oil. Note: the Belande are a sub-group of the Songe people, who form a part of the Luba tribe. Lament with Chisanshi box, with sound holes.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mukalanga awole (Come Mukalanga, come rain)

  • 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/10962/138080 , vital:37591 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-12
  • Description: The Valley Tonga call it "clapping for rain." clapping being the local method of supplication. They could not say who or what Mukalanga might be. It may well refer to the second wife of the Monomotapa who was called. "Come clouds", they sky itself is "jube". Our informer, Chief Chiabi told us that his people had crossed the Zambezi river led by a famous man like the Karanga prophet Chaminuka. This man is said to have struck the waters and they divided. All the people, together with their flocks and herds crossed over over on the dry stones of the river bed. He eventually died under a certain baobab tree in a kind of trance state and ever since then the place has been set aside as a rain shine. Rain son with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mukashi wamunobe (Do not play about with your friend's wife)

  • Authors: William Mapulanga and 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 Kazembe f-za
  • Language: Ruund
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139915 , vital:37812 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-04
  • Description: The cross rhythm of this song is typical, while the melodic formula of the lyric is one which has come up to N. Rhodesia from the south where it originated eight years ago in a song called "Vura matambo." from the Muzezuru tribe in S. Rhodesia. This demonstrates the persistence of the oral folk evolution of songs, now accelerated and more widely distributed by means of phonograhic recording. In the ordinary course of events, this tune would never have moved so far from its original home some 600 and 700 miles away. Morality song with guitar and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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