Iyongilo kalamitap kokoek (The Kikuyu's pen)
- Authors: Kiptui Arap Moroko with Nandi men , 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/10962/176752 , vital:42747 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR163-11
- Description: "Kikuyu's pen." The Moran is the attractive Nandi dance where they link arms in a circle and step sideways to the music while others enter the ring and leap like a coiled spring straight into the air. It requires few words to keep the rhythm going. The words in this case, they said, had little meaning referring possibly to pen weilded by a certain Kikuyu clerk. They rise steadily in pitch during the song. Moran dance song for men.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Musenga
- Authors: Munyithya wa Kyenze , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
- Language: Kamba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:42633 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-06
- Description: "I will praise you until your heart is broken like a bone. Keep your promise and come with me. When I sing your praise do not wrinkle your face like that." He strains the sisal bow by means of thumb pressure. Note how apprently out of tune he is with his instrument, which he appears to use as rhythmic ground only. Love song with Mbebe 1 sring, bowed lute.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Shundu na Wamukoya
- Authors: Jeremiah Mukanda with Wanga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Wanga (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Nyanza f-ke
- Language: Wanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176412 , vital:42692 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR161-12
- Description: The old chief Mumia would not allow to mention the name of the head of the other branch of the family, Sakwa's family is the senior and should provide the paramount chief. The Wanga are said to have fought their way into their present home all the way from Tiriki. This Litungu lyre, like the Indungili is also played upright when the player is seated on the ground. Shundu and Wamukoya were brothers who had separate kingdoms among Wanga, one in the east and the other in the north of the country. Shundu was the father of the great chief Mumia. The song recalls their tribal fighting and feuds. Historic feud songs, with Litungu 8 string lyre, Isendeche leg bells (-12.55-), inverted bowl (-12.151-), side blow horn (-11.122-).
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- Date Issued: 1950