"Baberita babakana babasangule apumbu." (Babarita has been rejected and they have made a fool of her)
- Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134340 , vital:37124 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-07
- Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele x 8, fan shaped mbira, with external resonator and mirliton.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Bwalwa bwa chiwowo." (Beer not drunk in peace.)
- Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134313 , vital:37120 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-04
- Description: "This beer is for the people, the Kaonde, the Lamba and the Nsenga." The people who use magic are worrying me at my house. I must go to the diviner to find out who it is. Why are you standing there at the door? Come in and do not stay outside."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Cilelensuma." (The sun set)
- Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134322 , vital:37121 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-05
- Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele x 8, fan shaped mbira, with external resonator and piece of glass tapped with metal.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Ilanga lacona." (The sun set)
- Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134349 , vital:37125 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-08
- Description: The song is taken from the old well-known tune from S. Rhodesia ("Ilanga lashona."), which first become popular as a guitar song in Bulawayo. The cowboy, he sings, puts on a large hat as a sign of strenght.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Luwalo-o-iuwale." (Start, o start the song)
- Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134304 , vital:37118 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-03
- Description: "What are we doing? The White men have come. Their tents are over there beyond the Chiwombo river." This was first sung long ago, they say, when the Whites first came to their country about 1900, or a little earlier.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Abatandani ngumasingili
- Authors: Nontwintwi and Annie Macholweni (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133632 , vital:36998 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-10
- Description: Self-delactative song with Hadi bow, unbraced, open string and resonated
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Amapoyisa ahlal' esangweni
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Mahlabatini f-za
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133452 , vital:36978 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-07
- Description: Wedding song with sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Anyanori, anyanori paramwa pasa tiki
- Authors: Composer not specified , Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka/Henga women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134100 , vital:37072 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-10
- Description: The gift of a small coin such as a threepenny bit indicates, they expalined, an affection for the young man asking for it from the girl.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ba ku Mageledi fyo balila
- Authors: Lala men and women (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lala (African people) , Africa South Africa Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133757 , vital:37013 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR014-11
- Description: Fwanda-fwanda dance song with 3 conical drums. 1) Akanono, 2)Cimbulunge, 3) Fwanda fwanda
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ba Machi Bwanga
- Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134331 , vital:37123 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-06
- Description: The singer calls his girl Machi Bwanga and the other women, including the mother of Changwe, to come and help him to sing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Butaka
- Authors: Kasadi Celestin (Performer) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Kanyok (African people) , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kabinda f-cg
- Language: Kanyok
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133855 , vital:37025 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR015-07
- Description: Talking drum messages with Chondo slit drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Calling the people and stating they have arrived
- Authors: Kasadi Celestin (Performer) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Kanyok (African people) , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kabinda f-cg
- Language: Kanyok
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133850 , vital:37024 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR015-06
- Description: Talking drum messages with Chondo slit drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Chabo wa bwile bokombo
- Authors: Kazari Inosa (Performer) , Chibanga Kalulu (Performer) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Kanyok (African people) , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kabinda f-cg
- Language: Kanyok
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133896 , vital:37033 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR015-11
- Description: Kabingo muke party dances with 2 Chisanzhi, board, gourd resonated and 2 goblet drums with mirlitons, pinned, weighted, closed and handbeaten; 1 basket rattle and bottle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Cheyu chamunganda
- Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Wedding music , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134109 , vital:37073 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-11
- Description: The song is used as a walking song, when on the way to some festivity like a wedding, as well as a hunting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Chitima wajumbo
- Authors: Composer not specified , Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134090 , vital:37071 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-09
- Description: It appears from what the singers explained, that this Chief Jumbo took the train one day in Nyasaland and the occasion being so unusal for the Chief in whose district no railway lines exist, that it merited a song in his honour.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Funda infwala aponya mwana nawona umwiko
- Authors: Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lala (African people) , Africa South Africa Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133782 , vital:37017 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR014-14
- Description: Fwandoula dance song with 3 conical drums, handbeaten, 1 stick (tapped on side of drum) and rattles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Here, mwana-we
- Authors: Sithole, Simon Mafiru , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Mbira , Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132055 , vital:36792 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-11 , Field card no. H1B-9
- Description: "Hey, child-first finish your digging. The mysteries have been listening for me. Mistakes in dancing do not carry as far as home. Listen to Mutanda drum, but first finish your grinding." Greeting child of the Mudzatsa Tree. There is a double meaning in ngoma mutanda. In the first instance it means a 'mystery or 'magic' - an unknown force, and in the second the plain literal translation of the 'Mutanda drum', a conical hollow wooden drum made of Mutanda wood. "Child of Mudzatsa Tree", refers to the eerie noise of the cracking beanpods of this tree, especially at night, and a person called by this name is only half a creature, a sprite or gnome. Three topical songs with mbira dza WaNdau and deze resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ikolongo
- Authors: Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lala (African people) , Africa South Africa Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133777 , vital:37016 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR014-13
- Description: Fwandoula dance song with 3 conical drums, handbeaten, 1 stick (tapped on side of drum) and rattles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ikona into ezakwenzeka
- Authors: Group of 7 young men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133560 , vital:36990 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-03
- Description: Group fighting song with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Inkulu into ezakwenzeka
- Authors: Nontwintwi and Annie Macholweni (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133587 , vital:36993 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-06
- Description: Self-delactative song with Hadi bow, unbraced, open string and resonated
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957