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Jesu Simpando

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Ubona usazalwa nawensizwa

Ubona usazalwa nawensizwa (We are the same age as you)

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Luba drum rhythms

  • Authors: 5 Luba drummers , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-18
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic Cite Indigene f-cg
  • Language: Luba-Katanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/243851 , vital:51195 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT520-L142 , Research no. L3C7
  • Description: Indigenous folk song for the 'Mambala dance' with singing accompanied by1 double metal bell, 1 basket rattle and 5 pinned, weighted, closed and handbeaten goblet drums with mirlitons.
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  • Date Issued: 1957-07-18

Musambo

Swaluu-Alah manyaana bilbay yinatil

  • Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
  • Language: Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179496 , vital:43071 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-13
  • Description: All items on this disc are included as example of the African adoptation of Arabic styles of music on the coast. This choice is composed of 12 young Swahili boys with a man soloist (el-ustadh) and three teachers playing the "duff" tambourines. Arabic and the lingua franca, Swahili, are part of the inheritance of all the coast dwellers and on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It is interesting to note how easily these African born Swahili children appear to adopt Arabic music with far greater facility that the efforts of most African children to sing European songs Kasida, Moslem Religious chants, with 3 Duff frame drums (tambourines).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Tanganyika Part I

  • Authors: Yobwa Chapi with Gogo men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Gogo (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mvumi f-tz
  • Language: Gogo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174272 , vital:42461 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR155-04
  • Description: "Let us play the Zeze lute so that we can remember our old songs. Do not sing in a hurry. Take your time. We, the Gogo are singing in Tanganyika the land of our birth. Why do people sing all my tunes?" A lovely slow chant in which all the people joined, men, women and chidldren. It is clear that the Gogo are a poetic people with great lyrical ability. The local composer comes forward and starts each line for the people to follow. The song was recorded out in the open in the village of Mvumi without reharsal of any kind. It seems likely that it could have continued almost indefinitely, but the exigencies of the recording apparatus and the fact that it was taken before the advent of long playing records made abbreviation necessary. The unexpected loud passages were unfortunately slightly over modulated but, with the technical faults except this recording gives a fair idea of the artistic ca[abilities of these remarkable performers. The recording is in two parts, the second pitched lower than the first and accompanied by a flute obligato which has little if any direct bearing on the melody itself. Nindo praise song with Mulanzi flute in Part II.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Sounds of South African animals and birds

  • Subjects: Lion's roar , Laughing dove , Hippopotamus , Grey herons , Birds , Hyena , Kruger National Park , Transvaal Province (Limpopo province) , South Africa
  • Type: Sound , Music
  • Identifier: vital:15253 , MOA18-13 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017412 , MOA18
  • Description: The sounds of the Kruger National Park wildlife including the lion's roar, doves, herons and hyena , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
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The Story of the Girl and the Crocodile

  • Authors: Tracey, Hugh
  • Subjects: African story , Crocodile , Girl , Present
  • Language: English
  • Type: Sound , Story
  • Identifier: vital:15238 , MOA17-05 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017397 , MOA17
  • Description: Traditional african story of how the crocodile was kind to the girl and the present she gave him. , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
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