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Authors: Eungane and Mbutu 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: Mombutu
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166716 , vital:41396 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-19
Description: "If one asks for something the white man will not give it to you." Meaning you are amongst the simplest in Africa although made on the same general pattern of all Congo Likembe they have only 4 intervals to the octave. Song with 3 Lisanzo likembe.
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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.
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Date Issued: 1952

Authors: Abangba 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: Bangba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166400 , vital:41359 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-01
Description: Contemplation of death, its inevitability, and its constant appearance, is an important subject in many African folk songs. The apparent joie de vivre displayed at the feast and dance after a funeral is strange to foreign ideas but typical of Africa. Egba funeral dances with Gudu-gudu slit drums, N'dima conical laced drums.
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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.
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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/10962/166721 , vital:41397 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-20
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: Abangba 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: Bangba
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166417 , vital:41361 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-02
Description: "I am old and no one care for me any longer." Egba funeral dances with Gudu-gudu slit drums, N'dima conical laced drums.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1952

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