Joki rakafa (Joki is dead)
- Authors: Group of 5 Karanga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Gutu District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154292 , vital:39644 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-05
- Description: The 'Bakumba' is a form of the Shangara dance. Joki, it seems, got married but his wife left him. So he went and asked his father-in-law to return the lobola but the father-in-law refused, so Joki went and killed himself by cutting his own throat. Bakumba party dance, with 2 drums and rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kalulu ndi munthu (The rabbit and the man)
- Authors: Bareto Kanjiunji and boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158173 , vital:40158 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-14
- Description: Although the language used is Mang'anja, the style of singing, they say comes from the Sena element in their society a great many Sena people having migrated out of the Zambezi valley into that of the Shire. Some time ago a rabbit and a man went together to get Matutungwe fruit to eat. While they were eating they saw a python and it wound itself round the man. The man begged the rabbit to go and get help. The rabbit replied, "You help yourself" because when we rabbits climb a tree we go with a knife to cut anything that entangles us. The man asked the rabbit again "Please rabbit help me". So the rabbit said, "just you sing this song and you will be free". So the man sang the song and escaped from the python. The customary reply during the story is "Go-gogodera andi sinjo." Story and song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Kari muchipfuwa kana ziwa ne mwene (Only you can tell what you are thinking in your heart)
- Authors: Saini Murira, Chingaipa Madzikuminga and Zhogi Muzengedza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Sena (African people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District f-rh
- Language: Sena , Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156550 , vital:40019 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-14
- Description: "In your heart (litt. in your chest.") This tune they said, is played at any time and on any occassion when the music of the Matebe is called for. The three outside notes on either hand are plucked upwards by the first fingers. Scale of the instrument:- 158, 140, 124, 114, 104, 95, 86, 79. Topical song with 3 Matebe dza Mondoro mbira bell and 1 Murumbi bowl drum.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Muzazaranda 2
- Authors: Tawagaza Sibanda , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154527 , vital:39743 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-05
- Description: When asked which was his favourite tune Tawagaza replied that this one, i.e. Muzazaranda was the one that pleased his heart best. The first version (a) is instrumental only. The second with the voice Muzazaranda is an old traditional title for items of this nature. Seld delectative song with Njari Mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Nona vela amwana impela (Some mothers have children)
- Authors: Andrea Sitole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Tsonga , Ronga language , Tsonga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Manica f-mz
- Language: Ronga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153073 , vital:39390 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR074-01
- Description: The song recounts the tale of a woman who had a child and threw it away into a drain. "Some mothers have children and don't want them. Other mothers want children and don't have them." The incident is supposed to have taken place locally. Topical song with Guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Wonke umhlaba nyazmmazama (The whole world is moving)
- Authors: Joke Dlamini and the Homeless 'B' , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock Mine f-sq
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153277 , vital:39427 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-13
- Description: This item was probably copied from an unidentified record. The name of this choir was 'the homeless'. But as there was an original team this one decided to call themselves 'B' to distinguish their group from the Homeless 'A'. Topical song (Mbude style)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Zimbige 1
- Authors: Tawagaza Sibanda , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154494 , vital:39739 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-01
- Description: The player was playing with the thumb of the left hand, the thumb and first finger of the right hand. The Njari is the traditional instrument of the district having originated from the Buhera district further north over two centuries ago, when it began to displace an older variety called the Mbira-dza-Midgimu. Self delecatative song with Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958