Luwangula Mugema
- Ludovico Mugerwa and Ganda women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Ludovico Mugerwa and Ganda women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171103 , vital:42019 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-12
- Description: "To who do these children belong? To the ruler Luwangula Mugema." Luwangula Mugema is the honorific title for a ruler, they explained. The singer is a young man about 20 years and is already well known in the district for the facility with which he drums and sings this type of song. Topical song, with 1 tall, cylindrical, open and pinned drum, 1 large conical laced drum (-14.22301-) and hand clapping (-12.03-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Ludovico Mugerwa and Ganda women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171103 , vital:42019 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-12
- Description: "To who do these children belong? To the ruler Luwangula Mugema." Luwangula Mugema is the honorific title for a ruler, they explained. The singer is a young man about 20 years and is already well known in the district for the facility with which he drums and sings this type of song. Topical song, with 1 tall, cylindrical, open and pinned drum, 1 large conical laced drum (-14.22301-) and hand clapping (-12.03-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Magi
- Njenje and Medje tipoyi carriers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Njenje and Medje tipoyi carriers , 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/10962/166779 , vital:41403 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0120-03
- Description: "I have taken a wife, and she is very happy with me." Tipoyi song by carriers of Chief Ebandrombi, when they carry him in his sedan chair, made of very light poles and woven cane. Work song with basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Njenje and Medje tipoyi carriers , 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/10962/166779 , vital:41403 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0120-03
- Description: "I have taken a wife, and she is very happy with me." Tipoyi song by carriers of Chief Ebandrombi, when they carry him in his sedan chair, made of very light poles and woven cane. Work song with basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mai-o-da
- Mosis, Magdalena, and Terasa (Mambuti women), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mosis, Magdalena, and Terasa (Mambuti women) , 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 Mbau-Mbili f-cg
- Language: Congo Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168169 , vital:41547 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-03
- Description: These songs were sung by three very small pygmy women all crouching on the ground close together. Their songs, it is said, asre composed mostly of vowel sounds or very simple words without much attempt to form a lyric. They were clothed only in a small strip of cloth each strung between the legs with each supported by a waist band of bark string. Each had a single string of beads around the neck and black markings were painted on their faces and necks. These songs, they said,could also be used as lullabies. At the end of the second and third items the bleat of a goat kid can be heard. Song after fishing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Mosis, Magdalena, and Terasa (Mambuti women) , 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 Mbau-Mbili f-cg
- Language: Congo Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168169 , vital:41547 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-03
- Description: These songs were sung by three very small pygmy women all crouching on the ground close together. Their songs, it is said, asre composed mostly of vowel sounds or very simple words without much attempt to form a lyric. They were clothed only in a small strip of cloth each strung between the legs with each supported by a waist band of bark string. Each had a single string of beads around the neck and black markings were painted on their faces and necks. These songs, they said,could also be used as lullabies. At the end of the second and third items the bleat of a goat kid can be heard. Song after fishing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Makobele
- Lili and Nebaliya and Yogo women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Lili and Nebaliya and Yogo women , 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
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166584 , vital:41382 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-05
- Description: Lili is the sister of Chief Anga, and Nebaliya is his cousin. They are both good looking girls and have been much photographed and praised by visitors to their village near Paulis. These Sudanic girls have the typical slanting eyes and long upper eyelids associated with Mangbetu group, but more commonly seen in China rather than Africa. "The fruit of the Makobele." Party song with basket rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Lili and Nebaliya and Yogo women , 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
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166584 , vital:41382 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-05
- Description: Lili is the sister of Chief Anga, and Nebaliya is his cousin. They are both good looking girls and have been much photographed and praised by visitors to their village near Paulis. These Sudanic girls have the typical slanting eyes and long upper eyelids associated with Mangbetu group, but more commonly seen in China rather than Africa. "The fruit of the Makobele." Party song with basket rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Makoto
- Barambo soilders and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Barambo soilders and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Poko f-cg
- Language: Ngbandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166994 , vital:41427 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0121-13
- Description: No details of the instruments tuning were taken at the time except to note that they conformed to the usual likembe pattern, box body, bass notes central in the array, with a single low note to one side of the single manual. Dance tunes with 2 Likembe and a conical laced drum.
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- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Barambo soilders and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Poko f-cg
- Language: Ngbandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166994 , vital:41427 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0121-13
- Description: No details of the instruments tuning were taken at the time except to note that they conformed to the usual likembe pattern, box body, bass notes central in the array, with a single low note to one side of the single manual. Dance tunes with 2 Likembe and a conical laced drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Makunda zimaye
- 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/10962/166458 , vital:41366 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-05
- 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.
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- 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/10962/166458 , vital:41366 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-05
- 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
Mali ta kangana
- Authors: Joseph Lidza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Djugu f-cg
- Language: Balendu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166685 , vital:41393 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-16
- Description: The tuning of this little Nile valley harp is interesting, viz:- 396, 324, 292, 252, 224, vs. as it does not cover a complete octave which is more usual with other harps of this design. Presumably had there been a sixth string it would have been tuned to 198 the lower octave of the top note thus giving a pentatonic scale. Self delectation song with Bonguma horizontal, arched harp.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Joseph Lidza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Djugu f-cg
- Language: Balendu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166685 , vital:41393 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-16
- Description: The tuning of this little Nile valley harp is interesting, viz:- 396, 324, 292, 252, 224, vs. as it does not cover a complete octave which is more usual with other harps of this design. Presumably had there been a sixth string it would have been tuned to 198 the lower octave of the top note thus giving a pentatonic scale. Self delectation song with Bonguma horizontal, arched harp.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mama Yangu
- Authors: Mudumbu , 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 Gombe f-cg
- Language: Bira
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168434 , vital:41581 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-10
- Description: A song about his mother, his country and people. Swahili words are interspersed with the Buudu as Swahili has rapidly become the 'lingua franca' for this part of the Congo having been first introduced by the Arabs and now officially in schools, business and administration. Topical song with Likembe (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Mudumbu , 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 Gombe f-cg
- Language: Bira
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168434 , vital:41581 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-10
- Description: A song about his mother, his country and people. Swahili words are interspersed with the Buudu as Swahili has rapidly become the 'lingua franca' for this part of the Congo having been first introduced by the Arabs and now officially in schools, business and administration. Topical song with Likembe (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mamvute
- Albesi and Magombo, with Mombutu men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Albesi and Magombo, with Mombutu men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Watsa f-cg
- Language: Mombutu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166734 , vital:41398 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-21
- Description: "If a husband is kind to his wife and gives her presents, she will stay at home like a good wife," No satisfactory translation for these two songs could be obtained. Morality song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Albesi and Magombo, with Mombutu men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Watsa f-cg
- Language: Mombutu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166734 , vital:41398 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-21
- Description: "If a husband is kind to his wife and gives her presents, she will stay at home like a good wife," No satisfactory translation for these two songs could be obtained. Morality song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Manatobo kukwo – Day lullaby
- Authors: Mbuti women , 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/10962/168309 , vital:41563 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-19
- Description: When the song is sung, they say, any time during the day. Lullaby.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Mbuti women , 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/10962/168309 , vital:41563 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-19
- Description: When the song is sung, they say, any time during the day. Lullaby.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Manatobo kukwo – Night lullaby
- Authors: Mbuti women , 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/10962/168315 , vital:41564 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-20
- Description: This lullaby is sung at night but also at other times. Lullaby.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Mbuti women , 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/10962/168315 , vital:41564 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-20
- Description: This lullaby is sung at night but also at other times. Lullaby.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Maria Chibu
- Albert Yenie and Alex Singoma, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Albert Yenie and Alex Singoma , 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/10962/168443 , vital:41582 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-11
- Description: This is an attempt either to transpose a well known guitar song to the traditional instrument of the district or is the original folk tune itself. The sanzo ababo has a very wide bridge, 8 and half inches, possibly the widest of all the Mbira family. The notes do not take up all this space as a large gap of about 2" is left between the notes played by each hand, Nos. 1-11 and 12-22. Duet on the Likembe, (Mbira) - Sanzo apido (treble) x 20 notes, and Sanzo ababo (bass) x 22 notes.
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- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Albert Yenie and Alex Singoma , 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/10962/168443 , vital:41582 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-11
- Description: This is an attempt either to transpose a well known guitar song to the traditional instrument of the district or is the original folk tune itself. The sanzo ababo has a very wide bridge, 8 and half inches, possibly the widest of all the Mbira family. The notes do not take up all this space as a large gap of about 2" is left between the notes played by each hand, Nos. 1-11 and 12-22. Duet on the Likembe, (Mbira) - Sanzo apido (treble) x 20 notes, and Sanzo ababo (bass) x 22 notes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Masanga nyi maye
- Zayi Pierre and Bodagi Alias and Ngbandi men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Zayi Pierre and Bodagi Alias and Ngbandi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Ubangi f-cg
- Language: Ngbandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166980 , vital:41425 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0121-11
- Description: "If ever I have a man out in prison I shall take him to the tribunal first." The tuning of bamboo notes is not easy as with metal notes on account of the nature of the overtones produced by bamboo. The tuning of these Ngombi Likembe was not quite the same as in the previous items, the reeds of bamboo from left to right was 236, 152, 212, 138, 200, 182, 166 and 332 vs. which gives a heptatonic scale:- 332, (304), (276), 236, 212, 200, 182, 166, 152, 138 vs. The top of this bowl shaped likembe was sewn onto the body which was made from a solid log hollowed out like a bowl with an 8" handle. The body was 21" broad and 7" deep. Topical song with Ngombi Likembe with bamboo notes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Zayi Pierre and Bodagi Alias and Ngbandi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Ubangi f-cg
- Language: Ngbandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166980 , vital:41425 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0121-11
- Description: "If ever I have a man out in prison I shall take him to the tribunal first." The tuning of bamboo notes is not easy as with metal notes on account of the nature of the overtones produced by bamboo. The tuning of these Ngombi Likembe was not quite the same as in the previous items, the reeds of bamboo from left to right was 236, 152, 212, 138, 200, 182, 166 and 332 vs. which gives a heptatonic scale:- 332, (304), (276), 236, 212, 200, 182, 166, 152, 138 vs. The top of this bowl shaped likembe was sewn onto the body which was made from a solid log hollowed out like a bowl with an 8" handle. The body was 21" broad and 7" deep. Topical song with Ngombi Likembe with bamboo notes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Masi asiibi mbaya
- Bandani with Mayogo men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Bandani with Mayogo men and women , 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/10962/166494 , vital:41370 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-09
- Description: "A woman stole some maize." Yogo women are said to have a large repertoire of women's songs which are sung at special parties and dances. Song for the Gbada dance with 2 Kombi Mbiras, 1 Gbe-kombi Likembe and 1 basket rattle. (-12.54-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Bandani with Mayogo men and women , 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/10962/166494 , vital:41370 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-09
- Description: "A woman stole some maize." Yogo women are said to have a large repertoire of women's songs which are sung at special parties and dances. Song for the Gbada dance with 2 Kombi Mbiras, 1 Gbe-kombi Likembe and 1 basket rattle. (-12.54-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Masida Ngalima
- Authors: Ombiza Charles , 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/10962/168102 , vital:41541 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0124-11
- Description: Masida Ngalima is the name of a woman. Like so many other African guitar players, Ombiza Charles appears to play the whole of his considerable reportoire in one key only. Most of his songs, like this one were about the well-dressed, perfumed beauties of the town, their charms and their msideeds. "The girls of today know how to dress" he sings. This claim is well justified as the girls of Stanleyville are, in our experience, perhaps the best dressed of all urban girls in the Congo. Topical song with guitar, bottle and friction stick.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Ombiza Charles , 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/10962/168102 , vital:41541 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0124-11
- Description: Masida Ngalima is the name of a woman. Like so many other African guitar players, Ombiza Charles appears to play the whole of his considerable reportoire in one key only. Most of his songs, like this one were about the well-dressed, perfumed beauties of the town, their charms and their msideeds. "The girls of today know how to dress" he sings. This claim is well justified as the girls of Stanleyville are, in our experience, perhaps the best dressed of all urban girls in the Congo. Topical song with guitar, bottle and friction stick.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mavumbala
- Authors: Mayogo men , 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/10962/166503 , vital:41371 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-10
- Description: The players stand in a row outside the files of circling dancers. It will be noted that the Yogo Likembe is pentatonic, these horns are tuned to a hexatonic scale. Dance song with wooden horns.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Mayogo men , 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/10962/166503 , vital:41371 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-10
- Description: The players stand in a row outside the files of circling dancers. It will be noted that the Yogo Likembe is pentatonic, these horns are tuned to a hexatonic scale. Dance song with wooden horns.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mawa
- Francois Kokomendre, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Francois Kokomendre , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Amasu f-cg
- Language: Mombutu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166671 , vital:41391 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-15
- Description: The settings of this zither are made of Kekere cane, the board is Ndete, the resonator (gourd) called the Gara. The strings give out a surprisingly loud note. Only four of the strings were used. "He weeps for the death of his wife." Nostalgic song with zither, Seki 5 strings.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Francois Kokomendre , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Amasu f-cg
- Language: Mombutu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166671 , vital:41391 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-15
- Description: The settings of this zither are made of Kekere cane, the board is Ndete, the resonator (gourd) called the Gara. The strings give out a surprisingly loud note. Only four of the strings were used. "He weeps for the death of his wife." Nostalgic song with zither, Seki 5 strings.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mbo I
- Chief Bianoko and Buudu men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Chief Bianoko and Buudu men , 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 Gombe f-cg
- Language: Bira
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168331 , vital:41567 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-01
- Description: This is a man's dance performed on festive occassions to celebrate a Chief's arrival or when the coffee has been harvested. The steps are very simple the whole group moving slowly around in a circle with the drums either in the centre or to one side. The notables wore attractive scarlet parrot tail feathers on their head of plaited palm leaf. The ivory was covered with several cat skins. These horns, beautifully carved out of elephant tusks are a notable feature of the material culture of this part of the Congo. They use the hollow end of the tusk, cutting it off at the nerve tip, so that the tip of the horn is open and can produce two notes. A special feature is the carefully carved broad mouthpiece on the inner side of the curve about one third of the length of the horn from the small end. The small end is often carved as a small human head. In playing the orifice is opened and closed with the thumb. Party dance, with 1 very small slit drum, 1 small slit drum 2 conical laced drums, 2 pod slit drums, ivory horn and basket rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Chief Bianoko and Buudu men , 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 Gombe f-cg
- Language: Bira
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168331 , vital:41567 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-01
- Description: This is a man's dance performed on festive occassions to celebrate a Chief's arrival or when the coffee has been harvested. The steps are very simple the whole group moving slowly around in a circle with the drums either in the centre or to one side. The notables wore attractive scarlet parrot tail feathers on their head of plaited palm leaf. The ivory was covered with several cat skins. These horns, beautifully carved out of elephant tusks are a notable feature of the material culture of this part of the Congo. They use the hollow end of the tusk, cutting it off at the nerve tip, so that the tip of the horn is open and can produce two notes. A special feature is the carefully carved broad mouthpiece on the inner side of the curve about one third of the length of the horn from the small end. The small end is often carved as a small human head. In playing the orifice is opened and closed with the thumb. Party dance, with 1 very small slit drum, 1 small slit drum 2 conical laced drums, 2 pod slit drums, ivory horn and basket rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mbo II
- Chief Bianoko and Buudu men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Chief Bianoko and Buudu men , 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 Gombe f-cg
- Language: Bira
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168343 , vital:41570 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-02
- Description: The Buudu is one of the north Eastern Congo Bantu tribes which makes good use of slit drums of groups, both for sending signals and for dances. The largest of these are frequently found roughly shaped like an antelope with head, tail and legs protruding from the body of the drum, carved out of a single log. The almost mechanical exactness of the performance of these five men in typically African strict tempo is quite remarkable, dull perhaps to the outsider who does not participate, but highly conducive of the motoe-reaction of the dancers. Drum rhythm, tall slit drum shaped like an animal, 2 pod drums, 2 small slit drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Chief Bianoko and Buudu men , 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 Gombe f-cg
- Language: Bira
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168343 , vital:41570 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-02
- Description: The Buudu is one of the north Eastern Congo Bantu tribes which makes good use of slit drums of groups, both for sending signals and for dances. The largest of these are frequently found roughly shaped like an antelope with head, tail and legs protruding from the body of the drum, carved out of a single log. The almost mechanical exactness of the performance of these five men in typically African strict tempo is quite remarkable, dull perhaps to the outsider who does not participate, but highly conducive of the motoe-reaction of the dancers. Drum rhythm, tall slit drum shaped like an animal, 2 pod drums, 2 small slit drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mbuti dance
- Mbuti Pygmy men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mbuti Pygmy men and women , 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/10962/168259 , vital:41557 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-13
- Description: The Pygmies of the forest borrow the instruments of the Bantu people outside. They have few if any instruments of their own. The slit drum was beautifully proportioned, semi-circular in shape, 41" across the diameter and 3" broad. The slit was 1" across and was carved out a hole through it to act as an insulating foot while playing or a handle to bang it up by. It is called Ndundu. The two conical drums were called Gude and were the usual laced drums of the district and measured 22" x 13" head and 30" x 8" head. Both made of very light wood. Conical laced drums, 1 semi-circular slit drum and basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Mbuti Pygmy men and women , 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/10962/168259 , vital:41557 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-13
- Description: The Pygmies of the forest borrow the instruments of the Bantu people outside. They have few if any instruments of their own. The slit drum was beautifully proportioned, semi-circular in shape, 41" across the diameter and 3" broad. The slit was 1" across and was carved out a hole through it to act as an insulating foot while playing or a handle to bang it up by. It is called Ndundu. The two conical drums were called Gude and were the usual laced drums of the district and measured 22" x 13" head and 30" x 8" head. Both made of very light wood. Conical laced drums, 1 semi-circular slit drum and basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952