E-ye-ye alawombi tombi (I have lost my hair-do)
- Authors: Group of 8 Lunda men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilungu f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139328 , vital:37727 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-11
- Description: The girls of this tribe plait their hair and draw it out into a wedge or mat on the top of the head. It is the loss of this bunch of hair to which this song refers. Topical song with struck metal.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
E-ye-ye asemanga aweni akweti mana (There are two kinds of women)
- Authors: Group of 6 Lunda men. Leader: Conguboyi Ntambo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilungu f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139310 , vital:37725 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-09
- Description: There are two sorts of mothers. - Those who care for their children, love them and look after them and who thus earn people's admiration.- The other neglect their children and do not care for them.- And fot these women no one has any respect. Sikinta party dance song with 2 struck bottles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
E-ye-ye kusumbukila kulunda (The Lunda marriage)
- Authors: Group of 6 Lunda men. Leader: Conguboyi Ntambo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilungu f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139301 , vital:37724 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-08
- Description: The Chief Mwinilunga Kalongisha is said to have destroyed the chieftainship of his younger brother and therefore lost the respect of his people. Sikinta party dance song with 2 struck bottles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Eya mulanda kankola kami (I like my girl)
- Authors: Group of 6 Lunda men. Leader: Conguboyi Ntambo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilungu f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139319 , vital:37726 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-10
- Description: "If a man has a girl he loves and she has gone away, he must sing this song in order to remember her.". Sikinta party dance song with 2 struck bottles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kakwezhi (The month)
- Authors: Group of 8 Lunda men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilungu f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139333 , vital:37728 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-12
- Description: The moon (month)in which my lover told me he would come has passed and he has not come. The story ends with an enumeration od local football wins and loss. Topical song with struck metal.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Malona diya wadikenge leli kufwa (Malona was warned of danger)
- Authors: Group of 14 Lunda men and 4 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilungu f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139357 , vital:37730 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-14
- Description: "Malona was warned of danger but she paid no attention and thus met with an accident." This song follows common Lunda pattern with the chorus singing in organum. The Lunda tribe occupy the watershed from which three great rivers arise: the Zambezi, the Lualaba and the Kasai, the one flowing east to the Indian ocean and the other two comprising the main southern branches of the Congo flowing westwards to the Atlantic. Kahaku ceremonial dance song with rattle and struck bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nyambilichina twali akwawu ku Muwewu (Nyambilichi is taking other girls to Muwewu) (
- Authors: Group of 14 Lunda men and 4 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilungu f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139348 , vital:37729 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-13
- Description: The Lunda or Luunda people came into the territory which is now N. Rhodesia from the Congo. They now form a group of about 50,000 east of the Luapula river. Kahaku ceremonial dance song with rattle and struck bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957