Drum message
- Kasadi Celestine, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kasadi Celestine , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Slit drums , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kandakanda f-cg
- Language: Kanyoka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134440 , vital:37151 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-01
- Description: The message sent out on this occasion was to call people to come and dance. The Chondo slit drum was made from a hollowed log through a slit, with a rectangular hole at each extremity of the slit. The drum, or gong, is rested on a circular insulation pad as the whole instrument vibrates after the fashion of a xylophone note and the sound would be deadened if it rested directly on the ground. Message calling people together with Chondo slit drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Kasadi Celestine , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Slit drums , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kandakanda f-cg
- Language: Kanyoka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134440 , vital:37151 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-01
- Description: The message sent out on this occasion was to call people to come and dance. The Chondo slit drum was made from a hollowed log through a slit, with a rectangular hole at each extremity of the slit. The drum, or gong, is rested on a circular insulation pad as the whole instrument vibrates after the fashion of a xylophone note and the sound would be deadened if it rested directly on the ground. Message calling people together with Chondo slit drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Sheme yasenzana wa mai-we
- 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young 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/10962/138216 , vital:37610 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-09
- Description: The song was done by small girls of about 12 years old. One did the singing, the other the 'shushing'. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young 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/10962/138216 , vital:37610 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-09
- Description: The song was done by small girls of about 12 years old. One did the singing, the other the 'shushing'. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Wa lwendu chombele (We are going somewhere)
- Large group of Kanyoka men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Large group of Kanyoka men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Instrumental music , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kandakanda f-cg
- Language: Kanyoka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134449 , vital:37155 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-01
- Description: Although the slit drum, or gong, is used for sending messages among this Congo tribe which lives beside the Bushimaie tributary of the Sankuru, itself a tributary of the Kasai, the great southern aem of the Congo River, it is also used as an accompaniment for dances. It is not known for certain whether it is used to communicate with the dancers during the course of a dance, as is the common practice in West Africa; but from present evidence this appears to be unlikely among the Kanyoka. Kalibambo dance song with 2 Silimba xylophones, 1 slit drum, 3 gobolet drums, handbeaten and 2 basket rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Large group of Kanyoka men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Instrumental music , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kandakanda f-cg
- Language: Kanyoka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134449 , vital:37155 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-01
- Description: Although the slit drum, or gong, is used for sending messages among this Congo tribe which lives beside the Bushimaie tributary of the Sankuru, itself a tributary of the Kasai, the great southern aem of the Congo River, it is also used as an accompaniment for dances. It is not known for certain whether it is used to communicate with the dancers during the course of a dance, as is the common practice in West Africa; but from present evidence this appears to be unlikely among the Kanyoka. Kalibambo dance song with 2 Silimba xylophones, 1 slit drum, 3 gobolet drums, handbeaten and 2 basket rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Yizane Mbiza (Bring the pot)
- Authors: Young boys , 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/10962/150660 , vital:38994 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-12
- Description: This Mbayizelo or Impezu dance is not performed for any special occasion but just for fun. One young boy plays the repeated melody or the mouth organ, while the others do a kind of prancing dance while making a rhythmic roaring noise in their throats. Mbayizelo dance song, with mouth organ (harmonica).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Young boys , 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/10962/150660 , vital:38994 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-12
- Description: This Mbayizelo or Impezu dance is not performed for any special occasion but just for fun. One young boy plays the repeated melody or the mouth organ, while the others do a kind of prancing dance while making a rhythmic roaring noise in their throats. Mbayizelo dance song, with mouth organ (harmonica).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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