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Magogwe mo Leseng Part 2(Let the honey bear dig out the ant bear)

- Mmapane Taunyane with 3 women and 1 man, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mmapane Taunyane with 3 women and 1 man , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Tlharo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164236 , vital:41097 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0110-10
  • Description: "Let the honey bear dig out the ant bear!" "Honey bear, look out for the flies, they are getting into the honey!" A woman crept about on the ground with her face in a large pot and her arms stretched out before her, grunting into the pot. This was meant to be in imitation of a honey bear. This one of the games played in the evening. Drinking song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Amuna ali kwanga (The husband I have)

- Small girls, Hugh Tracey

Mwanaya (This child)

- Chiko Phiri, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chiko Phiri , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald District f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156135 , vital:39955 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-14
  • Description: "The child cries because it is not mine." The father of this seven months old child took his baby in his arms and sang two lullabies, which he said his wife did not know how to sing. The child was as good as gold during the first, but cried all through the second. In spite of the words of the second song, the child was in fact his own. He called himself "Extra Zambezi" for some private reason. Lullaby.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Tula Tula (Hush, hush)

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

Flute Tune Five

- Katsuba Mwongolo, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Katsuba Mwongolo , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Genya (African people) , Nande (Congolese (Democratic Republic) and Ugandan people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Butembo f-cg
  • Language: Nande
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168677 , vital:41637 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0127-11
  • Description: Herdman's tune from the highlands on the eastern border of the Congo where the hills run alongside the great western rift opposite the Ruwenzori mountains. This remarkable player was somewhat 'simple' herdsman. He plays his flute all day to his cattle and has developed, they say, a distinct style of his own. He is inclined to hum while he plays and his voiced notes can be heard forming a celeste with those of the flute. The player was given a 'Highly commended' prize in the 1952 Osborn Awards for the best African musicians of the year. The first four tunes were copied frim discs in the Reference Library as the original tapes were not available. Nyamulera flute, 4 holed, notched.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Juma pembe

- Simai Bini Ali with Swahili men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Simai Bini Ali with Swahili men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Zanzibar f-tz
  • Language: Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179889 , vital:43246 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-02
  • Description: This short song is used for waking up the people for their last meal-the second of the night during the fast of Ramadhan. The singers go around singing and playing the drum at about 1-2 a.m. It is a picturesque Swahili/Mohammedan custom. The to membranes of the bass drum are tuned to different notes. Kigoma cha daku songs, with 2 tin rattles, 1 double-sided bass drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mayi muro sali mayi

- Bulasiyo Namawa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Bulasiyo Namawa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
  • Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169457 , vital:41752 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-06
  • Description: "Stepmothers do not treat step-children well." This indifference to other people's children is a major theme in all folklore. Topical song with Lidungu seven string lyre.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Yaya ulu kumwaka nalabla msenga

- Kabadiko Lugembe with Sukuma men and women, Hugh Tracey

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