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A Lomwe tasiyane (Lomwe go away)

- Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chewa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chadza, Lilongwe District, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153518 , vital:39461 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-23
  • Description: "You Lomwe man, go away from me! Let another come and marry me especially a man who wears an elastic belt." The significance of the elsatic belt was not explained, except to say that only 'rich' men could afford elastic. The song is about a certain Lomwe man, her husband, who, she sings is very poor and dressed only in rags which fall to pieces if you try to sew them up on the sewing machine. "Let me go and marry another man who does not have so many patches on his trousers which break the sewing machine." During the item the sound of the winnowing of bran from the corn in a sieve can be heard. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Alulu kalele mwana

- Mani Kuenda, Hugh Tracey

Nakhona Singianga Giba I

- Group of young Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152965 , vital:39367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-04
  • Description: A song for running and for walking. The same song is done in two styles. A young men do this style of chanting when loping from one village to another. Their songs change each year, they say, but the style of performance remains. It is part of the young men's set of dances also. "We are as many as those of Giba. We (the people of Sobhuza). Chant for running and walking.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kulangula-ka

- Kiposho, Hugh Tracey

Simongoma

- Muimui Nasirere, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Muimui Nasirere , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Lozi (African people) , Africa Zambia Mongu district f-za
  • Language: Lozi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152092 , vital:39212 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR067-13
  • Description: The player has worked in a store in Livingstone for 5 years. He comes from Lyatolo village near Mongu in Barotseland. The mirliton would not stick onto the hole in the board, so he plugged it up with paper. The tuning of the instrument:- 276, 256, 224, 210, (188), 174, (154), 138. Self-delectative song with Kangombio mbira.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Bloemfontein

- One of the girls of Chief Mhlolutini (Performer), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Gele Gele

- Fabiao Dingani Mashawa (Performer), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Apegale

- Barambo soilders and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Barambo soilders and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Poko f-cg
  • Language: Ngbandi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166989 , vital:41426 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0121-12
  • Description: No details of the instruments tuning were taken at the time except to note that they conformed to the usual likembe pattern, box body, bass notes central in the array, with a single low note to one side of the single manual. Dance tunes with 2 Likembe and a conical laced drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Bagbane

- Iyenga Francois and friend Eleo, Hugh Tracey

Gbada

- Bandani and Mayogo men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Bandani and Mayogo men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo f-cg
  • Language: Mayogo/Bazo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166519 , vital:41373 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-12
  • Description: The railway has reached this spot far into the interior of the Congo. It is a narrow gauge (about 2' 6") line which runs from Aketi on one of the northern tributaries of the Congo eastwards to the edge of the great tropical Ituri forest, In common with many other parts of Africa local railway trains have struck the imagination and figure frequently in song. It is interesting to note the "Ai-yo-o" of the singer so often heard in guitar songs. Party song with a Kombi and 1 Gbe-Kombi Likembe.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Lenze

- Zaka Francois and Benge wommen, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Zaka Francois and Benge wommen , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Bondo f-cg
  • Language: Benge-Baati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168925 , vital:41661 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-08
  • Description: The notes of this instrument had holes pierced at one end to enable them to be fixed to the banana stalk by slips of bamboo. The beaters are made of a light fibrous wood (Dukwa) and are called Yokobu. The wood used to make the notes is called Ngula, and is also used to make slit drums. It is red when cut. It is sometimes used, they say, to make furniture for Europeans. Topical song with Kpingbi, six note xylophone, loose notes, one peg each, on banana stalks.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Mo mgdekiriga

- Iyenga Francois and friend Eleo, Hugh Tracey

Mpundu

- Batwa singers of Chief Kamuzinzi, Hugh Tracey

Tutole kantu panshi

- Children of the Mindola African school, Hugh Tracey

Chepchoni Marinda

- Malakwen Chepsaikut, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Malakwen Chepsaikut , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Mijikenda (African people) , Nandi (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapsabet f-ke
  • Language: Nandi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176824 , vital:42762 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-02
  • Description: This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, like the Bongwe Zither of Nyasaland. This gave two chords. Notes 1, 3, and 5 and notes 2 and 4. One string, they said, was missing, the lower octave of No. 1. The scale was:- 308, 256, 232, 206, 180, (154) vs. Praise sone with Kipukandet 5 string lyre.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Eliso lyamukatata

- Tegalyoma Tilwesobwa with Zinza women, Hugh Tracey

Harusi I

- Ngayamiso Kitunga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ngayamiso Kitunga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172914 , vital:42295 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-01
  • Description: Tunes played at weddings. The instrument was new and the notes not well hammered so the tone of the instrument was not as good as it might have been. Nevertheless the music is attractive. The tuning from left to right was:- 448, 372, 320, 244, 208, 168, 122, 244, 284, 336, 372, 416, 488 giving a heptatonic scale of:- 488, 448, 416, 372, 336, 320, 284, 244 vs. These items were recorded at Itetemia, the village of Chief N. S. Fundikira. Wedding tune, with Malimba Likembe.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Iyelele

- Kiti Shunga, Ngoni men and women, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Kamano

- Akito Arap Yeko, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Akito Arap Yeko , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Mijikenda (African people) , Nandi (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapsabet f-ke
  • Language: Nandi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176853 , vital:42765 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-04
  • Description: This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, like the Bongwe Zither of Nyasaland. This gave two chords. Notes 1, 3, and 5 and notes 2 and 4. One string, they said, was missing, the lower octave of No. 1. The scale was:- 308, 256, 232, 206, 180, (154) vs. The tune comes from the Luo people in the valleys below but has had Nandi words put to it. It is a song of praise for the Nandi country and other places which the singer and his audience have visited. Topical song with Kipukandet 5 string lyre.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kilamu

- Ndunge wa Kalele with Kamba women, Hugh Tracey

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