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Maboko a Kgosi (Praises for Chief Masibi)

- Andrew Morothoco, Hugh Tracey

Tsoanya (Sweet sound)

- Tlokotsi Lesikara and Mohomane, Hugh Tracey

A m'bwalo (Unmarried boys)

- Small girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Small girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Ncheu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160061 , vital:40377 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-10
  • Description: The boys go around at night in a group to tease the girls by standing outside their huts, pulling out their sleeping mats and generally making nuisances of themselves, so it was explained. "Unmarried boys "teka-teka" they break the mats. They mock and they do not get fat. Shaking the mats. We will report them to the elders, for breaking our mats." Girls song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mukadzi unoerei-ko? (What is your surname)

- Tichainda Mudyanadzo and Lunita Zimbwa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tichainda Mudyanadzo and Lunita Zimbwa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Albert Mission, Gutu Reserve, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154667 , vital:39762 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-20
  • Description: Sorry, sorry, sorry. What is the woman's surname? My surname is this child. The legs are burnt with the porcupine. What kind of 'mungu' is that, another? I have lost, I have burnt my child. Call his aunt. His aunt where is she? She digs in the chief's garden. Lift the deep voice, we pass. We will come out at Chanembe. Chanembe where there are girls. Who stab each other with knives. The spears are buried under ground . Please give us those spears. We will stab the big tree trunk. The big tree trunk, where is it? It is at the pool of Buuro. What did you give to Buuro? We gave him that little drum there. How does it sound? 'Ti-ndi-ngu!' Hippo in the pool. Where is the owner of the pool? He has gone to pick fruit. We will eat it at our home. Etc., etc.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

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.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Sheme yasenzana wa mai-we

- 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls, Hugh Tracey

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.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Yizane Mbiza (Bring the pot)

- Young boys, Hugh Tracey

  • 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).
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Alume yerani malo

- Kanga Mayele with Giryama men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kanga Mayele with Giryama men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Giryama (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malindi f-ke
  • Language: Giryama
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176603 , vital:42719 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-10
  • Description: The singer calls to those behind to hurry and catch up with the dance team as they are going to a big dance competition. This item is a fascinating example of the authentic 2 against 3 African cross rhythm. Msego dance song for men and women with Kayamba raft rattles and clapping (-12.03-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Azungu musinjilo

- Eliya Chaya, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Eliya Chaya , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185276 , vital:44360 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-06
  • Description: This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. Simple song in typical vein by a village singer. The tuning of the Bango was:- 256, 236, 216, 198, 178, 156, 140 vs. Self delectative song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Lipwami lyaliswangawantu

- Mugabe with Hehe men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mugabe with Hehe men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Hehe (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kilolo f-tz
  • Language: Hehe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175031 , vital:42532 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR157-10
  • Description: "Hunger makes you feel week." Song for hoeing in the fields. This part of Tanganyika is up on the Southern highlands away from the heat of the valleys. The ground is poor and the rainfall only moderate, the last two seasons 1948-50 were both affected by drought. Work song (agricultural).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ruimbo rwa ngu

- Rebecca Nyanyega and Kikuyu girls, Hugh Tracey

Uswezi I

- Uwilula with old Nyamwezi women, Hugh Tracey

Zulu dance movement III

- Zulu people, Hugh Tracey, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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