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Apa mkuti

- Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

Coka Coka (Go away, go away)

- 9 small girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 9 small girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153491 , vital:39458 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-20
  • Description: The 9 small girls put their 5 mortars in one row and with osne exception two girls pounded in each mortar. "Go away, go away. I don't go! Why shoild I leave this place? An orpahn child is difficult to nurse. Where shall I, an orphan, go? No. no. no, I am sorry for you." The difficulty of bringing up an orphan child is often referred to in African songs. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ife totumika (We have been invited)

- Four Tumbuka women, Hugh Tracey

Kupanda mlongo nkusauka (To be without a sister is to be without a home)

- Thawani Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Lote-lote (Lote)

- Elefala Jeremiah Mbewe, Hugh Tracey

Mnyamata (Young man why dont you marry?)

- Frank Nantibule, Hugh Tracey

Wakazali Inhaminga (She has married at Inhaminga)

- George Zongoloti and small girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: George Zongoloti and small girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsu, Port Herald District f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156027 , vital:39943 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-03
  • Description: Inhaminga is the village in Mozambique beyond the Zambezi river from this district about 100 miles away to the south and about half way to the port of Beira. The drum held horizontally between the knees, membrane facing outwards-mirliton upwards, the player sitting on the ground. By raising and lowering his legs slightly the drummer presses the open end of the drum on and off his chest. The lower notes are produced while the oriffice of the drum is off his chest. The drum which had a 7 inch membrane was 12 inches tall. The water-lizard skin was weighted with paste on the inner surface and was attached with wooden pins. Nthikwi dance with cylindrical, weighted drums and mirliton.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

"Baberita babakana babasangule apumbu." (Babarita has been rejected and they have made a fool of her)

- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134340 , vital:37124 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-07
  • Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele x 8, fan shaped mbira, with external resonator and mirliton.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Chiterere chanakazi

- Jespar Lungu and is wife, Hugh Tracey

Khajoane (The eagle)

- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey

Kunukizembe pheshakwenciba (The smell of a battle axe across the Kei)

- Group of young Xhosa men and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Xhosa men and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150687 , vital:38997 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-15
  • Description: We were told that this group of Xhosa lads were from Christian homes. The tune is connected to the same dance for young boys and girls between the ages of about 12-17 years. It is a dance song the group of young people use on their way to the home where the party is to take place. The dance itself takes place in a hut. Mbayizelo dance song, with harmonica.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kuzumana makua (Do not agree with Europeans)

- Chakobola Sheni, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chakobola Sheni , 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/10962/139077 , vital:37702 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-13
  • Description: The singer had his noise pierced (the tip of the septum), which until recently was a common practice among Tonga. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mweba kashi ndiswileni ingalikwa kuchimbolo

- Performer not specified, Shef Mataba (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Ndi shuye ndi kalele mwana

- Bigton Gombeza, Hugh Tracey

Owe mbale kwa Lyoto (I am going to Lyoto)

- Mwayulukula, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mwayulukula , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Safwa (African people)--Music , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
  • Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde , Safwa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151875 , vital:39182 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-07
  • Description: The singer was Safwa from Mbeya district of Southern Tanganyika. The tune "Wenela" is sung, they say, when going to join up with the Witswatersrand Native Labour Association organization to work on the mines of South Africa and elsewhere. Self-delectative song with Pango board zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Zondelele (Come and mourn with me)

- Simakwenda, Hugh Tracey

Umfazi ohlupingane

- L. Shandu (Performer), L. Shandu (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Bwomera envu

- Mulobo Maswa and Soga men, Hugh Tracey

Kemai I

- Kayoka Ladislas with Kankolongo Alidor, Hugh Tracey

Mbuti hunting cries

- Moke with Mbuti men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Moke with Mbuti men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Mbuti (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
  • Language: Congo Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168277 , vital:41559 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-15
  • Description: The hollow clapping sound in the first song was produced by the Pygmies slapping the hollow of their crooked arms held against the chest with their hands. This kind of clapping indicates pleasure or rejoicing and takes the place of the two handed clapping which they do not appear to use. These cries, they said, were used when hunting the iddi, the small forest antelope, driving it into the hunting nets.
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  • Date Issued: 1952
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