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Authors: Jean Kota and group of Lunda women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Kabinda f-cg
Language: Lunda
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139546 , vital:37749 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-14
Description: Both the drum and the hands beat out the usual double beat, with the stick providing the simple syncopation of 3 beats and a double beat followed by 2 beats and a double, so commonly found throughout Southern Congo, regardless of the measure of the song. The song ends with the leader calling out to the singers "Manyoka" to which they answer with a set phrase which sounds like: "A pinda akwezhi." Party song with clapping and small goblet drum tapped on the side as well as beaten (14.52251-).
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Kabinda f-cg
Language: Lunda
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139490 , vital:37743 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-09
Description: The larger drum was also tapped on the side by a stick. The clapping was done with cupped hands. The Chief de Centre Kapenda, was the head of this group. Jadotville is the headquaters of the central region of the Union Miniere, the other 2 towns being Elizabethville in the East and Kolwezi in the West. It was originally famous for the fact that one of the mines, Shinkolobwe, was the first place in the world from which the famous Curie family obtained the radium for their experiments. At Panda, there is a museum of mineral crystals discovered in the Katanga mines. Kawidi dance with 2 goblet drums, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons, hand beaten.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Kabinda f-cg
Language: Lunda
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139481 , vital:37742 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-08
Description: The larger drum was also tapped on the side by a stick. The clapping was done with cupped hands. The Chief de Centre Kapenda, was the head of this group. Jadotville is the headquaters of the central region of the Union Miniere, the other 2 towns being Elizabethville in the East and Kolwezi in the West. It was originally famous for the fact that one of the mines, Shinkolobwe, was the first place in the world from which the famous Curie family obtained the radium for their experiments. At Panda, there is a museum of mineral crystals discovered in the Katanga mines. Kawidi dance with 2 goblet drums, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons, hand beaten.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Kalemba and large group of Lunda women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Kabinda f-cg
Language: Lunda
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139537 , vital:37748 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-13
Description: The box drum was a roughly made instrument from the sides of a box or packing case, one side being covered by a skin to form the membrane. The player sat on his box and raised the pitch of the membrane by pressure from one heel. U chiku chimbundu dance with 1 goblet drum struck on the side by wooden beater, 1 box drum, hand beaten.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Kabinda f-cg
Language: Lunda
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139495 , vital:37744 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-10
Description: The larger drum was also tapped on the side by a stick. The clapping was done with cupped hands. The Chief de Centre Kapenda, was the head of this group. Jadotville is the headquaters of the central region of the Union Miniere, the other 2 towns being Elizabethville in the East and Kolwezi in the West. It was originally famous for the fact that one of the mines, Shinkolobwe, was the first place in the world from which the famous Curie family obtained the radium for their experiments. At Panda, there is a museum of mineral crystals discovered in the Katanga mines. Kawidi dance with 2 goblet drums, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons, hand beaten.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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