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Nongangela (All the young men from Timgqimqi's location are alike)

Nteta ya nkosi (Chief's speech)

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Visekese wawoli wanyani lero wadinginika (Visekese had 2 wives)

  • Authors: Group of 4 Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Tumbuka , Malawi , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Luvale/Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137321 , vital:37511 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR037-04
  • Description: Each woman had her own rattle. These were made of stout grass in raft form. The song is about a man who had 2 wives whom he could not support. So he gave everything to one and left the other weeping. Sekese dance song with 4 raft rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

We mukashi Namulenga, nshakupile kuwama (My wife, Namulenga, I did not marry you for beauty)

  • Authors: Edmond Cileshe and his wife , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135210 , vital:37249 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-02
  • Description: "My wife, Namulenga, I did not marry you for your beauty. Cook some food now, the cock has already crowed." The player was blind and his wife sat beside him tapping the back of his instrument with a stick and singing. He himself held his Mumamba on the ground and beat the base of it with his right knee as he played. Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Nfunkutu dance song with Mumamba mbira bell.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kuyashisa e Mqhobo

Kuyashisa e maqhobo

Mamman Katsina

Swanzi hlamaliso

Swanzi hlamaliso

  • Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano, Gomez , Gomez, F , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1955
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Laments , Rattle (Musical instrument) , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132182 , vital:36808 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR004-06 , Field card no. H1P-16
  • Description: "They put poison in my beer and that is why I have no child. I am very worried about the guitar. I do not like to meet anyone. I went to my doctor to make myself effective to get a child. I asked my uncle if he had seen the way I dance. Did the Old people kill a man on account of his dancing, or does that happen only to me?" Lament with raft rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1955

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Nakupa Shairi

  • Authors: Obiero, Lang , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1952-09-26
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Yala f-ke
  • Language: Luo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/222603 , vital:48892 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT326-F126 , Research no. F4Z14b
  • Description: A rumba song accompanied by guitars and a rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1952-09-26

Nakupa Shairi

  • Authors: Obiero, Lang , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1952-09-26
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Yala f-ke
  • Language: Luo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/222598 , vital:48891 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT326-F126 , Research no. F4Z14a
  • Description: A rumba song accompanied by guitars and a rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1952-09-26

Introduction to Gbo

  • Authors: Mayogo men and women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1952-08-05
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo Mabozo f-cg
  • Language: Mayogo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/214745 , vital:47982 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT270-F2 , Research no. MOA7 SIDE B NO.2
  • Description: Ebi dance performance with 1 large cylidrical slit drum, 2 small wooden cylindrical slit drums, 2 wooden pod drums, 2 large conical laced drums and 1 double metal bell accompaniment.
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  • Date Issued: 1952-08-05
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