Call for circumcision
- Drummers of Chief Mongika, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169108 , vital:41685 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-06
- Description: Away from the Congo river itself it appears that the art of sending drum messages deteriorates into the sendng of signals only, the former being based upon the tonality of the individual words comprising the sentences transmitted, the latter comprising pre-set phrases and rhythms to which certain significance is attached. The signals may have risen from messages in the past but the skill of 'talking' on the drums has almost if not entirely vanished among the Mangbele. The significance ofthe 'Tamatsaro' signal was not explained. Drum rhythms or signals with 2 slit drums, 2 large pod shaped slit drums, 2 long cyclindrical drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169108 , vital:41685 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-06
- Description: Away from the Congo river itself it appears that the art of sending drum messages deteriorates into the sendng of signals only, the former being based upon the tonality of the individual words comprising the sentences transmitted, the latter comprising pre-set phrases and rhythms to which certain significance is attached. The signals may have risen from messages in the past but the skill of 'talking' on the drums has almost if not entirely vanished among the Mangbele. The significance ofthe 'Tamatsaro' signal was not explained. Drum rhythms or signals with 2 slit drums, 2 large pod shaped slit drums, 2 long cyclindrical drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Call to war
- Drummers of Chief Mongika, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169075 , vital:41681 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-02
- Description: Away from the Congo river itself it appears that the art of sending drum messages deteriorates into the sendng of signals only, the former being based upon the tonality of the individual words comprising the sentences transmitted, the latter comprising pre-set phrases and rhythms to which certain significance is attached. The signals may have risen from messages in the past but the skill of 'talking' on the drums has almost if not entirely vanished among the Mangbele. The significance ofthe 'Tamatsaro' signal was not explained. Drum rhythms or signals with 2 slit drums, 2 large pod shaped slit drums, 2 long cyclindrical drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169075 , vital:41681 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-02
- Description: Away from the Congo river itself it appears that the art of sending drum messages deteriorates into the sendng of signals only, the former being based upon the tonality of the individual words comprising the sentences transmitted, the latter comprising pre-set phrases and rhythms to which certain significance is attached. The signals may have risen from messages in the past but the skill of 'talking' on the drums has almost if not entirely vanished among the Mangbele. The significance ofthe 'Tamatsaro' signal was not explained. Drum rhythms or signals with 2 slit drums, 2 large pod shaped slit drums, 2 long cyclindrical drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Chamukumai
- Group of Lulua soilders and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Lulua soilders and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Luluabourg f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182182 , vital:43807 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-01
- Description: The Chisanzhi Mbira is the traditional type of the district: the basket rattle is a well-known woven article with a handle; the rattles had wooden handles and an open work basket head with beer bottle tops inside. The bottle is a common percussion instrument among the Lulua and the singing gourd is the favourite instrument of women's choirs in southern Congo into which they sing, lip or hum notes related to the fundamenta; note of the gourd. The somewhat strange sound of the singing gourd is the first heard at approximately 1m:30s from the start of this song. Maringa dance with Chisanzhi Mbira, two pairs of rattles, basket rattle, singing gourd bottle and clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Group of Lulua soilders and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Luluabourg f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182182 , vital:43807 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-01
- Description: The Chisanzhi Mbira is the traditional type of the district: the basket rattle is a well-known woven article with a handle; the rattles had wooden handles and an open work basket head with beer bottle tops inside. The bottle is a common percussion instrument among the Lulua and the singing gourd is the favourite instrument of women's choirs in southern Congo into which they sing, lip or hum notes related to the fundamenta; note of the gourd. The somewhat strange sound of the singing gourd is the first heard at approximately 1m:30s from the start of this song. Maringa dance with Chisanzhi Mbira, two pairs of rattles, basket rattle, singing gourd bottle and clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Chelewa
- Berroit Kukwabo, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Berroit Kukwabo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Bira (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Bunia f-cg
- Language: Bira
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168477 , vital:41586 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-14
- Description: "I want to marry Chelewa, nut Chelewa refuses. Now I am forlorn. Topical song with Sanzo Apido Likembe (Mbira), 12 notes (treble).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Berroit Kukwabo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Bira (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Bunia f-cg
- Language: Bira
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168477 , vital:41586 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-14
- Description: "I want to marry Chelewa, nut Chelewa refuses. Now I am forlorn. Topical song with Sanzo Apido Likembe (Mbira), 12 notes (treble).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Chibemba
- Kayoka Ladislaus, with Kapungo Isidore and Beya Marcel (Likembe players), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kayoka Ladislaus, with Kapungo Isidore and Beya Marcel (Likembe players) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kandakanda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182025 , vital:43791 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-11
- Description: "My brothers and sisters belong to a family of great repute." A simple accompaniment of bell like quality mainly on two notes. The sound of one of the players thumb nails striking the surface of the sound of the sound board after plucking the note can be clearly heard towards the end of the recording. Topical song, with 2 Likembe mbira and wooden clapper (-12.02-)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Kayoka Ladislaus, with Kapungo Isidore and Beya Marcel (Likembe players) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kandakanda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182025 , vital:43791 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-11
- Description: "My brothers and sisters belong to a family of great repute." A simple accompaniment of bell like quality mainly on two notes. The sound of one of the players thumb nails striking the surface of the sound of the sound board after plucking the note can be clearly heard towards the end of the recording. Topical song, with 2 Likembe mbira and wooden clapper (-12.02-)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Chief summoning his people
- Drummers of Chief Mongika, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169084 , vital:41682 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-03
- Description: Away from the Congo river itself it appears that the art of sending drum messages deteriorates into the sendng of signals only, the former being based upon the tonality of the individual words comprising the sentences transmitted, the latter comprising pre-set phrases and rhythms to which certain significance is attached. The signals may have risen from messages in the past but the skill of 'talking' on the drums has almost if not entirely vanished among the Mangbele. The significance ofthe 'Tamatsaro' signal was not explained. Drum rhythms or signals with 2 slit drums, 2 large pod shaped slit drums, 2 long cyclindrical drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169084 , vital:41682 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-03
- Description: Away from the Congo river itself it appears that the art of sending drum messages deteriorates into the sendng of signals only, the former being based upon the tonality of the individual words comprising the sentences transmitted, the latter comprising pre-set phrases and rhythms to which certain significance is attached. The signals may have risen from messages in the past but the skill of 'talking' on the drums has almost if not entirely vanished among the Mangbele. The significance ofthe 'Tamatsaro' signal was not explained. Drum rhythms or signals with 2 slit drums, 2 large pod shaped slit drums, 2 long cyclindrical drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Chihibalumuna bembi
- Louis Mulowa and Lunda men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Louis Mulowa and Lunda men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183004 , vital:43902 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-16
- Description: "A man who wears a waistcoat without a jacket looks a perfect fool." The most trivial remarks are quite enough to suggest a good dance tune. The lower notes of this Chisanzhi were tuned with wax attached to the underside of the tips of the reeds. Sikinta dances with Chizanzhi Mbira and gourd.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Louis Mulowa and Lunda men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183004 , vital:43902 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-16
- Description: "A man who wears a waistcoat without a jacket looks a perfect fool." The most trivial remarks are quite enough to suggest a good dance tune. The lower notes of this Chisanzhi were tuned with wax attached to the underside of the tips of the reeds. Sikinta dances with Chizanzhi Mbira and gourd.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Chila twachinda naba matombo
- Children of the Mindola African school, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Children of the Mindola African school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182913 , vital:43892 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-06
- Description: A song for Chief Kazembe, also used as a canoe song. These children demonstrate a typically Luunda organum style of singing. Canoe song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Children of the Mindola African school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182913 , vital:43892 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-06
- Description: A song for Chief Kazembe, also used as a canoe song. These children demonstrate a typically Luunda organum style of singing. Canoe song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Chitengi
- Andre Boniface Wahamba and group of Chokwe men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Andre Boniface Wahamba and group of Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Villa Luzu f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183309 , vital:43954 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-02
- Description: "Black cloth may not be worn by a woman who is about to have a child, she may use any other coloured cloth but not black." Such simple sentences revealing local etiquette are quite enough to inspire a local dance song. The Chokwe are more renowned for their beautiful chip carving than for their music, much of it sung in organum. Chianda dance song woth Sangu rattles, leg rattles held in the hand and gourds on sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Andre Boniface Wahamba and group of Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Villa Luzu f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183309 , vital:43954 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-02
- Description: "Black cloth may not be worn by a woman who is about to have a child, she may use any other coloured cloth but not black." Such simple sentences revealing local etiquette are quite enough to inspire a local dance song. The Chokwe are more renowned for their beautiful chip carving than for their music, much of it sung in organum. Chianda dance song woth Sangu rattles, leg rattles held in the hand and gourds on sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Chyoko
- Segbe and Ndongo men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Segbe and Ndongo men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Faradje f-cg
- Language: Ndongo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166615 , vital:41385 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-08
- Description: The singers lament the death of a friend and in so doing demonstrate the fact that Africans celebrate their funerals with dances and apparently gay singing. Sung after a funeral, with harp, likembe and basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Segbe and Ndongo men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Faradje f-cg
- Language: Ndongo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166615 , vital:41385 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-08
- Description: The singers lament the death of a friend and in so doing demonstrate the fact that Africans celebrate their funerals with dances and apparently gay singing. Sung after a funeral, with harp, likembe and basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Colette
- Orchestra Tinapa, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Orchestra Tinapa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Alur (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Stanleyville f-cg
- Language: Zande/Vongara
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168123 , vital:41543 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0124-13
- Description: "Colette begs you for money but gives you nothing in return." "I know I owe you money and I will give it to you but I do not have any now. I spoke to you one day and you would not reply. If you would agree to love me for only one day I would take it as a whole month. Colette. There is nothing wrong with Stanleyville. We all know it is a perfect place." 'Rumba' dance with 1 guitar, bottle and friction stick.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Orchestra Tinapa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Alur (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Stanleyville f-cg
- Language: Zande/Vongara
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168123 , vital:41543 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0124-13
- Description: "Colette begs you for money but gives you nothing in return." "I know I owe you money and I will give it to you but I do not have any now. I spoke to you one day and you would not reply. If you would agree to love me for only one day I would take it as a whole month. Colette. There is nothing wrong with Stanleyville. We all know it is a perfect place." 'Rumba' dance with 1 guitar, bottle and friction stick.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Congo Bereji
- Mayogo men and women, led by Chief Anga, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mayogo men and women, led by Chief Anga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo f-cg
- Language: Mayogo/Bazo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166467 , vital:41367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-06
- Description: The Ebi dance has several variations which all follow the general pattern of a circular dance file. The men take the inner circle and the girls the outer, and the drums are outside the ring. The traditional dress for the men is a black or black and red loin cloth made of bark fibre. This is passed between the legs and up over the hips to the waist. It is held in place by a belt and the stiff cloth when properly set gives the impression of a large black tulip in which the mans torso rides on 2 legs. The most attractive feature of these Mangbetu style dance is the bright scarlet headress of the dancers made of tail feathers of the Congo grey parrot. They are a great treasure to these people, feathers representing part of the token payment of a bride's 'lobolo' or bride 'dowry'. They are said to represent a sign of wealth or social position in the tribe. Ebi dance with 1 large wodden cylindrical slit drum, 2 small wooden cylindrical slit drums, 2 wooden pod drums, 2 large conical laced drums, 1 double metal bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Mayogo men and women, led by Chief Anga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo f-cg
- Language: Mayogo/Bazo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166467 , vital:41367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-06
- Description: The Ebi dance has several variations which all follow the general pattern of a circular dance file. The men take the inner circle and the girls the outer, and the drums are outside the ring. The traditional dress for the men is a black or black and red loin cloth made of bark fibre. This is passed between the legs and up over the hips to the waist. It is held in place by a belt and the stiff cloth when properly set gives the impression of a large black tulip in which the mans torso rides on 2 legs. The most attractive feature of these Mangbetu style dance is the bright scarlet headress of the dancers made of tail feathers of the Congo grey parrot. They are a great treasure to these people, feathers representing part of the token payment of a bride's 'lobolo' or bride 'dowry'. They are said to represent a sign of wealth or social position in the tribe. Ebi dance with 1 large wodden cylindrical slit drum, 2 small wooden cylindrical slit drums, 2 wooden pod drums, 2 large conical laced drums, 1 double metal bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Curative song
- Authors: Mbuti men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Mbuti (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Congo Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168304 , vital:41562 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-18
- Description: This song is performed when a Pygmy is ill in order to help him recover. They do not believe in foreign medicine and rarely bring their people out of the forest to hospital. Curative song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Mbuti men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Mbuti (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Congo Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168304 , vital:41562 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-18
- Description: This song is performed when a Pygmy is ill in order to help him recover. They do not believe in foreign medicine and rarely bring their people out of the forest to hospital. Curative song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Dale mu bele sa
- Authors: Muyapala Kpeli , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Zande/Bandiya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167409 , vital:41477 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0122-10
- Description: Unlike most harps of this design, this one was held upright with the point of the body on the performers knees, the neck pointing away from him, the strings in a vertical postition and not horizontal. They do not hold their tuning for long and must be returned before each performance. Long song with vertical, angular Kundi harp of 5 strings. and Andzolo metal hand bells.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Muyapala Kpeli , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Zande/Bandiya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167409 , vital:41477 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0122-10
- Description: Unlike most harps of this design, this one was held upright with the point of the body on the performers knees, the neck pointing away from him, the strings in a vertical postition and not horizontal. They do not hold their tuning for long and must be returned before each performance. Long song with vertical, angular Kundi harp of 5 strings. and Andzolo metal hand bells.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Dekeye
- Zande elephant drivers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Zande elephant drivers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Alur (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Dungu f-cg
- Language: Zande/Vongara
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168022 , vital:41532 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0124-04
- Description: "A Chief's son always wants to become chief himself, are you not ashmed to want to take your father's place? The Zande men are specially chosen for the dangerous job of training wild African elephants on account of their bravery. The home district of these Zande men is Dungu, a small town in the north eastern corner of the Congo, north of Watsa and near the Sudan border. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Zande elephant drivers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Alur (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Dungu f-cg
- Language: Zande/Vongara
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168022 , vital:41532 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0124-04
- Description: "A Chief's son always wants to become chief himself, are you not ashmed to want to take your father's place? The Zande men are specially chosen for the dangerous job of training wild African elephants on account of their bravery. The home district of these Zande men is Dungu, a small town in the north eastern corner of the Congo, north of Watsa and near the Sudan border. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Dekuku na degusiya kimakoyo
- Authors: Bakia Pierre , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Zande/Bandiya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167377 , vital:41473 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0122-06
- Description: "He took a wife chosen from amongst the girls of his own village, when she was very young, but another man stole her away from him." Ngbanda Mandefu, the other harp player, a tall bearded man got up and danced in a style reminiscent of a Cossack dance, snapping his fingers and stamping now and then. Bakia Pierre is a large quietly spoken man who works in a Portuguese butchers shop in the small town of Buta. His songs were greeted with great applause and satisfaction by his fellow Zande in the circle. Topical song, with vertical angular Kundi harp, 5 strings.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Bakia Pierre , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Zande/Bandiya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167377 , vital:41473 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0122-06
- Description: "He took a wife chosen from amongst the girls of his own village, when she was very young, but another man stole her away from him." Ngbanda Mandefu, the other harp player, a tall bearded man got up and danced in a style reminiscent of a Cossack dance, snapping his fingers and stamping now and then. Bakia Pierre is a large quietly spoken man who works in a Portuguese butchers shop in the small town of Buta. His songs were greeted with great applause and satisfaction by his fellow Zande in the circle. Topical song, with vertical angular Kundi harp, 5 strings.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Diya Kilango
- Zegive and Mvu people, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Zegive and Mvu people , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Watsa f-cg
- Language: Mvuba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166624 , vital:41386 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-09
- Description: This tribe, like many of the non-Bantu tribes in this North East part of the Congo are very simple people indeed. The country has still few roads and the carrying of officials and others whose work takes into remote parts is still common. The chair or mashila which they carry is locally called Tipoyi. Work song (carrying Sedan chair), with harp, likembe, bells and basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Zegive and Mvu people , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Watsa f-cg
- Language: Mvuba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166624 , vital:41386 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-09
- Description: This tribe, like many of the non-Bantu tribes in this North East part of the Congo are very simple people indeed. The country has still few roads and the carrying of officials and others whose work takes into remote parts is still common. The chair or mashila which they carry is locally called Tipoyi. Work song (carrying Sedan chair), with harp, likembe, bells and basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Dyibwe dyambule kabanda
- Kayoka Ladislaus, with Kapungo Isidore and Beya Marcel (Likembe players), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kayoka Ladislaus, with Kapungo Isidore and Beya Marcel (Likembe players) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kandakanda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182017 , vital:43790 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-10
- Description: "There is an ant which carries a box on its head just as Europeans carry an aeroplane and as a lorry carries stones and stones carry the lorry." The two Likembe Mbira were tuned an octave apart. The scale was:- 648, 548, 496, 424, 392, 324, 274, 248, 212, 162. Topical song, with 2 Likembe mbira and wooden clapper (-12,02-)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Kayoka Ladislaus, with Kapungo Isidore and Beya Marcel (Likembe players) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kandakanda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182017 , vital:43790 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-10
- Description: "There is an ant which carries a box on its head just as Europeans carry an aeroplane and as a lorry carries stones and stones carry the lorry." The two Likembe Mbira were tuned an octave apart. The scale was:- 648, 548, 496, 424, 392, 324, 274, 248, 212, 162. Topical song, with 2 Likembe mbira and wooden clapper (-12,02-)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Dzoli
- Ebogoma Gabriel, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Ebogoma Gabriel , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Medje f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166838 , vital:41410 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0120-11
- Description: A brave little marching tune and song, very simple by utterly African. The tuning of the Neikembe was:- 640, 592, 528, 480, 432, 396, 360, 320, 264, 216 vs. The player was given a "Highly Commended" prize in the 1952 Osborn Awards for the best African musician of the year. Topical song with Neikembe likembe.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Ebogoma Gabriel , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Medje f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166838 , vital:41410 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0120-11
- Description: A brave little marching tune and song, very simple by utterly African. The tuning of the Neikembe was:- 640, 592, 528, 480, 432, 396, 360, 320, 264, 216 vs. The player was given a "Highly Commended" prize in the 1952 Osborn Awards for the best African musician of the year. Topical song with Neikembe likembe.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Ebi
- Mayogo men and women, led by Chief Anga, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mayogo men and women, led by Chief Anga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo f-cg
- Language: Mayogo/Bazo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166449 , vital:41365 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-04
- Description: All the drums were made at Niangara. Ebi is a circular dance, with men dancing in file anti-clockwise in the inner circle, the girld dancing in file in the outer circle. The conical laced drums are made with elephants' ears, the small slit drums are formed out of a half section of a tree and may be either cylindrical or triangular in shape. The four legs are made out of the remaining half section carved out of one piece with the body of the drum. Ebi dance with 2 wooden pod slit drums, 2 large conical laced drums, 1 metal double bell, 2 small wooden cylindrical drums and 1 large wooden cylindrical slit drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Mayogo men and women, led by Chief Anga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo f-cg
- Language: Mayogo/Bazo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166449 , vital:41365 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-04
- Description: All the drums were made at Niangara. Ebi is a circular dance, with men dancing in file anti-clockwise in the inner circle, the girld dancing in file in the outer circle. The conical laced drums are made with elephants' ears, the small slit drums are formed out of a half section of a tree and may be either cylindrical or triangular in shape. The four legs are made out of the remaining half section carved out of one piece with the body of the drum. Ebi dance with 2 wooden pod slit drums, 2 large conical laced drums, 1 metal double bell, 2 small wooden cylindrical drums and 1 large wooden cylindrical slit drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952