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Mungate Tamara

Kaso Bia wasapwisha Bantu

  • Authors: Cisenga, D , Chungu, B , Musonda, F , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-06
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mulfulira f-za
  • Language: Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/237661 , vital:50539 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT471-L92 , Research no. L2M11
  • Description: A morality song about people spending money on beer accompanied by guitar.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-06

Muyomba walila bukeni mwebalasa inama

Owu wangachata ngumufwete

Akaizari mbanda yasila (The Mbanda dance is finished)

Kaso Bia wasapwisha Bantu (Because of Castle beer, people go naked)

Mungate tamara

Muyomba walila bukeni, mwebalasa inama (The hornbill is calling, wake up you hunters)

  • Authors: Chibuye Matolopa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Africa Zambia Katanga f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134542 , vital:37175 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-01
  • Description: "The hornbill is calling, wake up you hunters!" "You who go out hunting in the bush, you must wake up and get ready, for the hornbill is calling and you have far to go.".
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Mwilu mwatuluka womama yami-e!

Ndoba bieena wisi Mbozi (I am afraid, Father of Mbozi)

  • Authors: Group of Tonga 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/10962/138026 , vital:37585 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-06
  • Description: This was an actual funeral dance for an old woman. The dance was a circle dance and a few men joined in, one of them singing the verses. The woman wear clothes knotted on the shoulder (black), leaving one shoulder bare. A string tied round the head. Some of them just wore kilts or skirts and very few beads. "What can I do, As I have lost my mother, oh, what are all these sorrows upon me-" The chorus repeats - "O-yeyeye!" Womens' funeral dance-after burial.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Ruwe-ruwe

Title not specified

Ukutyiwa zezilo (I am enchanted by magic)

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa women and Notembile and Nopenrose , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136064 , vital:37333 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-03
  • Description: This item was recorded inside a hut. We were told that this music (performed only by women) is only played at night, inside the huts. Those in the hut who are listening, must listen in silence, perhaps lie down and close their eyes and then "they must think of places far away, where they have never been, or of places where their sons or husbands are working." 2 Self-delectative songs with Hadi musical bow, unbraced, open and resonated.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Walianzi sunu Gengere (Where did you eat Gengere)

Wimbe ngoma wulisalise ye-ye

Ansati lwe u nganaye

Mukwenu wadima madima

Mzeno wa Hafu Kumbani of Ngodo of Repulo Nyankowango 1955

  • Authors: Nyankowango , Kumbani, Hafu , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1955-10-01
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Portuguese East Africa f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225358 , vital:49213 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT353-J2 , Research no. H1K4
  • Description: Movement of Mzeno Movement of Ngodo of Repulo Nyankowango 1955, played on xylophone, rattles and horn.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1955-10-01

Ku Mangwetu kutalikile

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