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Se Bana wa Lela (Do not cry baby)

- Nthebolang Molebatsi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nthebolang Molebatsi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Tlharo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164267 , vital:41103 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0110-13
  • Description: "Do not cry baby! the water pans have dried up, my father and mother died and I had no one to advise me. (literary 'to straighten me') "My uncle gave me a brown cow which, if it rains, will give me a pailful (of milk). Do not boast of your lover, boast of your husband. One does not boast of a theif." The player sat on the ground with the right leg passed through the bow. She held the bow in her left hand resting the curved wooden part on the ground, string uppermost. She stopped the upper part of the string with her chin, the other end of the bow rested on an enamel basin turned upside down. A second woman joined her towards the end. She stopped playing at one point to adjust the enamel basin resonator. The instrument is played by both men and women. When asked when they play these songs, the answer was, "Any time when we feel onely." Self delectative song with one stringed Nokokwane bow.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Gunde (Gunde and the crocodile)

- Kezia Chilumpha and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kezia Chilumpha and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160251 , vital:40426 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-10
  • Description: "Gunde, yes, who is the man brave enough to take the 'wife' of the crocodile. There was once a certain woman who killed her only child and buried her outside the hut. After a while only the skelton remained and the rain fell and washed away the earth, exposing a leg. A crocodile nearby dug up all the bones joined them together and made another child out of them. "Who has done this" the woman cried. Now the child grew up with the crocodile and became a beautiful girl. So the mother sang. "Who is brave enough to take my daughter from the crocodile." No one in the village was brave enough so the crocodile kept his girl from himself. The mother continually came to the lake to sing for her daughter. One day the daughter heard her mother and as the crocodile was away she came out and went with her to the village. But the crocodile came and begged for the girl as he himself had brought her up and given her life. The mother could not refuse him and so the daughter went back to the lake and married the crocodile. Nthano story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Njinga ailepele (The bicycle)

- Men and women of Pemba Village, Hugh Tracey

Wena wamakhosi esizwe (You lord of the people)

- Group of men and girls from the Queen mother's village, Hugh Tracey

Musafu sumu

- Group of 16 Tonga men and boys, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Kakonko

- Isaac Matafwana, Sunkutu, Tracey, Hugh

Vhannani wee

- Magidi's tshigombela team, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Alele iya olumbe

- Saida Kikongo, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mavumbala

- Mayogo men, Hugh Tracey

Jenzi chiwa ne mutsa

- St Augustine's Mission Church Choir, Manyau, Miles, Tracey, Hugh

Jenzi chiwa ne mutsa

- St Augustine's Mission Church Choir, Manyau, Miles, Tracey, Hugh

Unoyera

- St Augustine's Mission Church Choir, Manyau, Miles, Tracey, Hugh

A se le monate

- Mixed Roman Seminary Choirs, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Axihitana xa nwabuwana na nwamhisi

- Pupils of the Swiss Mission, Performer not specified, M. Machiana, Tracey, Hugh

Wahlumisela yawa Nyambela

- Ngodo of Cabo Dunye, Napalangue, Fokiso, Tracey, Hugh

Data Dizongolo

- Ngodo of Cabo Nyambele, performer not specified, Chidanyane wa Wagwenda, Tracey, Hugh

Manganakana nguvera achitala mzinda

- Sancho Nyangele (Leader), Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Sancho Nyangele (Leader) , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/194698 , vital:45482 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR208-03
  • Description: This famous song compsed by Katini of Zavala's village is here played by the Ngodo of Zandamela, led by Sancho Nyangele from Cabo Mahamba's village. The original version of the lyric was written in my book 'Chopi musicians' and only a few words have been changed, such as, 'Ucisika msaho' instead of 'Ucisika timbila' in the second verse. The composer, Katini, had died the previous year (1948) but his songs were so appreciated by the whole tribe that several of the village orchestras played his music. One still hears an occasional item of his 1963, fifteen years after his death. Orchestral dance with 28 Timbila xylophones.
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  • Date Issued: 1949

Wachomisela yava Nyambeni

- Ngodo of Cabo Ndunye, performer not specified, Fokiso waMapulanga, Tracey, Hugh

7th Movement "Mzeno"

- Katini we Nyamombe (Leader), Komukomu, Sekalani, Bokisi, Madoshimani and Majanyana (5 players), Tracey, Hugh

Luchazi drums

- Luchazi Drummers, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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