Tu changiye
- Authors: Zuze, Solomon , Nguza, Louis , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-04
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Elisabethville f-cg
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/245866 , vital:51412 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT535-L157 , Research no. L3J1
- Description: Indigenous topical folk song with singing accompanied by a guitar, a friction stick and a struck bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-04
Saida
- Authors: Humplik, Francis , Frank and sisters , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-05-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Moshi f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/216991 , vital:48234 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT294-F60 , Research no. F3E18
- Description: Love song accompanied by guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-05-28
Ramadhani imekuja Islam tutubie
- Authors: Three Wamusha Daku criers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179553 , vital:43084 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-01
- Description: Note the way in which the three performers sing in organum. They are the 'town criers' who go around during the fast of Ramadhan calling the people to wake up for their midnight meal. The singers themselves, while singing Swahili belong to the Liba/Songe tribe. The chants were sung to the same tune. The size of the cylindrical drum wa 13" x 8". The size of the shallow drum was 11 1/4" x 3 1/2". Moslem chants (Wamusha Daku), with 1 metal cylindrical drum, laced, 1 metal frame drum, pegged (-14.91-), 1 basket rattle (-12.54-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950