Ba Mari' tukasambe (Mary let us go to wash ourselves)
- Adamsoni Kabamba, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134675 , vital:37190 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-06
- Description: "Mary let us go to wash ourselves at the river. On earth we live but to die. Mary join in the singing because we both know we live but to die. There are some beautiful peple on earth; so Mary sing with me this song." Self-delectative song with Kankowele mbira, fan-shaped, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134675 , vital:37190 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-06
- Description: "Mary let us go to wash ourselves at the river. On earth we live but to die. Mary join in the singing because we both know we live but to die. There are some beautiful peple on earth; so Mary sing with me this song." Self-delectative song with Kankowele mbira, fan-shaped, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Inakiya Isele
- Group of Xhosa men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Xhosa men and women , 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/10962/149171 , vital:38812 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-04
- Description: Sung by initiates before circumcision. The words "Inakiya" and "Isele" are synonyms for "frog". Circumcision song,with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Xhosa men and women , 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/10962/149171 , vital:38812 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-04
- Description: Sung by initiates before circumcision. The words "Inakiya" and "Isele" are synonyms for "frog". Circumcision song,with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kurangarira a Masewe (I am thinking of Masewe)
- Authors: Shenge Mashowa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Africa Mozambique Maceques f-mz
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152042 , vital:39206 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR067-08
- Description: "I am thinking of 'Masewe' (the name by which she calls she calls him), who has gone far away." (This part is supposed to be sung by the wife) "Then (says the singer) I am doing very hard work at Kariba, working with Italians. Oh! when you see our Italian working very high, high, high (litt, sky, sky, sky) you think he is going to fall. But he does not fall and he does the job. The singer starts his song with a nostalgic remark attributed to his wife referring to him by his pet-name, but goes on to remark on his work at the Kariba dam, and then fearlessness of the Italian workmen employed by the contractors. Impresit, to erect the machinery. The riggers assembling the giant steel cranes, crushers, conveyor belts and the like, high above the valley where the dam is being built, take constant risks which are admited by their African helpers. Topical song with mbira dza waNdau.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Shenge Mashowa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Africa Mozambique Maceques f-mz
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152042 , vital:39206 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR067-08
- Description: "I am thinking of 'Masewe' (the name by which she calls she calls him), who has gone far away." (This part is supposed to be sung by the wife) "Then (says the singer) I am doing very hard work at Kariba, working with Italians. Oh! when you see our Italian working very high, high, high (litt, sky, sky, sky) you think he is going to fall. But he does not fall and he does the job. The singer starts his song with a nostalgic remark attributed to his wife referring to him by his pet-name, but goes on to remark on his work at the Kariba dam, and then fearlessness of the Italian workmen employed by the contractors. Impresit, to erect the machinery. The riggers assembling the giant steel cranes, crushers, conveyor belts and the like, high above the valley where the dam is being built, take constant risks which are admited by their African helpers. Topical song with mbira dza waNdau.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mayo mulume wandi nichinshele (Mother, my husband is a good for nothing)
- Edward Shoni and group of 6 Aushi men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Edward Shoni and group of 6 Aushi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
- Language: Aushi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140114 , vital:37834 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-08
- Description: A woman complains that her husband is an idle good for nothing. "Every morning he says he is going fishing, but he never comes back with any fish. And I am so tired of just cooking vegatables!" The song is sung in the evening when the men return empty-handed after a day's fishing. Mocking song after fishing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Edward Shoni and group of 6 Aushi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
- Language: Aushi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140114 , vital:37834 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-08
- Description: A woman complains that her husband is an idle good for nothing. "Every morning he says he is going fishing, but he never comes back with any fish. And I am so tired of just cooking vegatables!" The song is sung in the evening when the men return empty-handed after a day's fishing. Mocking song after fishing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mngoma uvelaphi (Hullo, where do you come from?)
- Group of Hlangwini men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151428 , vital:39097 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-04
- Description: An elderly crippled man leapt out at the end of this song and swung himself right off the ground swivelling round on his crutch and landing on his one good leg. Ndhlamu dance song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151428 , vital:39097 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-04
- Description: An elderly crippled man leapt out at the end of this song and swung himself right off the ground swivelling round on his crutch and landing on his one good leg. Ndhlamu dance song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ngoma (3)
- Group of Tonga men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , 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/10962/138824 , vital:37676 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-07
- Description: The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length and shape of the horns employed. The smaller boys played the shorter horns and the larger boys the longer horns. The bass horns needing more breath to blow them. This is a very wild kind of dance, with everyone dancing madly in a mob. The step is a short staccato, jigging step to and fro, very simple. Noise seems to be the main object and the dust thrown up by their feet in the alluvial soil of the river valley almost obscured the tight knot of dancers. The celeste caused by the treble pipes in deafening to an observer, but too high pitched to record. The names of the 7 drums from smal to large were:- 1) Gogogo, 2) Kingaridi, 3) Chamutanda, 4) Muntunda, 5) Mujinji, 6) Pininga, 7) Pati. The first four are played with sticks and the three others with hands. They are all the same basic shape being an almost square cut rectangular cylinder for a body and a hollow pipe of wood without foot for a base. They are all sung across the shoulder or held between the thighs for playing. Ngoma dance with Nyele end-blown antelope horn and set of Ngoma drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , 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/10962/138824 , vital:37676 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-07
- Description: The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length and shape of the horns employed. The smaller boys played the shorter horns and the larger boys the longer horns. The bass horns needing more breath to blow them. This is a very wild kind of dance, with everyone dancing madly in a mob. The step is a short staccato, jigging step to and fro, very simple. Noise seems to be the main object and the dust thrown up by their feet in the alluvial soil of the river valley almost obscured the tight knot of dancers. The celeste caused by the treble pipes in deafening to an observer, but too high pitched to record. The names of the 7 drums from smal to large were:- 1) Gogogo, 2) Kingaridi, 3) Chamutanda, 4) Muntunda, 5) Mujinji, 6) Pininga, 7) Pati. The first four are played with sticks and the three others with hands. They are all the same basic shape being an almost square cut rectangular cylinder for a body and a hollow pipe of wood without foot for a base. They are all sung across the shoulder or held between the thighs for playing. Ngoma dance with Nyele end-blown antelope horn and set of Ngoma drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tenshin (Attention)
- Sotho men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Sotho men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151533 , vital:39139 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-09
- Description: "We stand at attention whenever we see him." Meaning we respect the Chief and salute him respectfully whenever we see him. The old lady, leading the song was the mother-in-law of the Chief and therefore was not allowed to mention her son-in-law's name, according to the 'Hlonipa' custom by which a woman must speak in synonyms of her husband and his family. Agricultural and domestic work song for hoeing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Sotho men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151533 , vital:39139 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-09
- Description: "We stand at attention whenever we see him." Meaning we respect the Chief and salute him respectfully whenever we see him. The old lady, leading the song was the mother-in-law of the Chief and therefore was not allowed to mention her son-in-law's name, according to the 'Hlonipa' custom by which a woman must speak in synonyms of her husband and his family. Agricultural and domestic work song for hoeing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tuibale bonse nwe nseba (Let's flock together like nseba birds)
- Edward Shoni and group of 6 Aushi men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Edward Shoni and group of 6 Aushi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
- Language: Aushi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140105 , vital:37833 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-07
- Description: "Come, everyone, flock together like the nseba birds, which are never alone. and let us sing this song." Sung when on the way to some festive occassion. Walking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Edward Shoni and group of 6 Aushi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
- Language: Aushi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140105 , vital:37833 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-07
- Description: "Come, everyone, flock together like the nseba birds, which are never alone. and let us sing this song." Sung when on the way to some festive occassion. Walking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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