Rungano rgwe musikana usika shandi
- Authors: Bodzwa Fanisa Mulhanga and her 2 daughters , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chipinga f-rh
- Language: Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195148 , vital:45533 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR210-10
- Description: The daughters names were Melia and Elena Mahuto. This is the story of a girl who could do no manner of work and had to be looked after by her sisters. Eventually she was married and when she went to her husband's home she took three of her young sisters with her to look after her. One day when they had gone off to collect firewood, her mother-in-law asked her to pund a little grain in the mortar. She told her that this was impossible and that she must never do a stroke of work or she would die. The mother-in-law did not believe her and asked her to do just a few strokes with the pestle so that she could see for herself what would happen. She agreed and immediately fell down dead. When the three sisters returned with the firewood they found their sister was not there. Where was she? No one knew. They guessed what had happened and immediately they sang a magic song which revived her sister and she came alive again. When her husband's relatives saw all this they agreed that she must return to her own home and never come back as she could never make a good wife. Ngano story
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- Date Issued: 1963
Sisi woere hai
- Authors: Simon Mafiru Sithole (Performer) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Mbira , Africa Zimbabwe Chipinga f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132060 , vital:36793 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-12
- Description: Three topical songs with mbira dza WaNdau and deze resonator
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- Date Issued: 1957
Hiyo woye, Busai-we
- Authors: Simon Mafiru Sithole (Performer) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Mbira , Africa Zimbabwe Chipinga f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132078 , vital:36796 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-14 , H1B-10
- Description: "Hi, there Busai, see my poverty, brother. This great trouble which causes it, Busai. That is, when I think of it I weep, Busai." The tuning of the central octave of the instrument was as follows:-440, 392, 364, 332, 296, 260, 220 vps. Personal laments with mbira dza WaNdau and deze resonator.
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- Date Issued: 1955