Amana mi adu namgwetia lebobo
- Authors: Baziri Teofili , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169014 , vital:41672 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-17
- Description: "My mother-in-law came to my house during my wife's absence to ask for a bunch of bananas." A charming patter song, with a light-hearted mother-in-law theme. Humorous song with Lisanzo, 10 note Likembe.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Banga
- Authors: Zaka Francois and Benge wommen , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Bondo f-cg
- Language: Benge-Baati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168935 , vital:41662 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-09
- Description: The notes of this instrument had holes pierced at one end to enable them to be fixed to the banana stalk by slips of bamboo. The beaters are made of a light fibrous wood (Dukwa) and are called Yokobu. The wood used to make the notes is called Ngula, and is also used to make slit drums. It is red when cut. It is sometimes used, they say, to make furniture for Europeans. Topical song with Kpingbi, six note xylophone, loose notes, one peg each, on banana stalks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Ekokolinga
- Authors: Engbaka Philippe and friend , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Aketi f-cg
- Language: Kusu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168896 , vital:41658 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-06
- Description: The players friend sat beside him with another Ekembe on which he played one note by way of a rhythmic accompaniment as the second instrument was not peoperly in tune, and so they could not be played together. This policeman, it appears, would insist upon any man he arrested dancing before him to the tune of his Ekembe on their way to the police station. No one thought this to be an imposition and in fact both policeman and offender enjoyed the performances. While the third song was being played a man in the crowd was actually arrested by another member of the African Police and marched off. Muzeze song with Ekembe 10 note Likembe.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Embati
- Authors: Engbaka Philippe and friend , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Aketi f-cg
- Language: Kusu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168886 , vital:41657 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-05
- Description: The players friend sat beside him with another Ekembe on which he played one note by way of a rhythmic accompaniment as the second instrument was not peoperly in tune, and so they could not be played together. This policeman, it appears, would insist upon any man he arrested dancing before him to the tune of his Ekembe on their way to the police station. No one thought this to be an imposition and in fact both policeman and offender enjoyed the performances. While the third song was being played a man in the crowd was actually arrested by another member of the African Police and marched off. Muzeze song with Ekembe 10 note Likembe.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Howe
- Authors: Bodwa men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169009 , vital:41670 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-16
- Description: Buta frim where this dance song emanates, is on the northern edge of the great tropical forest belt which characterises the central districts of the Congo. The Bobwa people are Bantu but have adopted several characteristics of their Sudanic neighbours, the Zande. Bodwa dance with one wooden slit drum, two cylindrical cross-laced drums, metal hand bell and rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kabireka kundende kure ("Of what tribe are your father and mother?")
- Authors: Kusu women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Manyema f-cg
- Language: Kusu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168849 , vital:41653 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-02
- Description: The Kusu are Mohammedans having accepted the domination of the Arab traders on the Luapula River in the 19th century. The simple repetitive songs demonstrating the almost mechanical simplicity of a dance rhythm. They were recorded by Kusu people about 450 miles north of their home district near the Lualaba river about 3 degrees South of the equator. They were working at the elephant training centre at Andudu on the edge of the great Ituri forest. Both items copied from discs. Dance song with one wooden slit drum, one small conical drum, and one bass conical laced drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kekema-kekema (Do not be afraid)
- Authors: Kusu women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Manyema f-cg
- Language: Kusu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168840 , vital:41652 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-01
- Description: The Kusu are Mohammedans having accepted the domination of the Arab traders on the Luapula River in the 19th century. The simple repetitive songs demonstrating the almost mechanical simplicity of a dance rhythm. They were recorded by Kusu people about 450 miles north of their home district near the Lualaba river about 3 degrees South of the equator. They were working at the elephant training centre at Andudu on the edge of the great Ituri forest. Both items copied from discs. Dance song with one wooden slit drum, one small conical drum, and one bass conical laced drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kilumbu I and Kilumbu II
- Authors: Kusu women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Manyema f-cg
- Language: Kusu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168858 , vital:41654 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-03
- Description: The 'Diviner' was a young man dressed in a full cotton skirt, leaving the torso bare, and wide ropes of beads crossed diagonally across the chest. He wore a red silk head-kerchief and was accompanied by a small boy dressed in similar fashion. Although the singers said, at the time, that the name of the song was "Kilumbu" it would appear from the recording that it is more correctly "Kaiyombo." Recorded at the Camp de Nepoko, Elephant Training Centre, Ituri Forest, Andudu. Copied from disc. Two Songs welcoming the Diviner. One wooden cylindrical slit drum, one small conical laced drum and one small bass drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Lebandima
- Authors: Mangbele men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168987 , vital:41668 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-14
- Description: In the hilly country of North Eastern Congo and in the great tropical forest basin of the Ituri, the Tipoyi or Sedan chair is still the only means of passenger transport away from the main roads. Not only officials but most native chiefs and notables are carried in this manner by four or more bearers, who after the fashion of all Africans use special occupational songs for this kind of work. Tipoyi carriers song, with two wooden pod shaped slit drums and two cylindrical slit drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Lenze
- Authors: Zaka Francois and Benge wommen , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Bondo f-cg
- Language: Benge-Baati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168925 , vital:41661 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-08
- Description: The notes of this instrument had holes pierced at one end to enable them to be fixed to the banana stalk by slips of bamboo. The beaters are made of a light fibrous wood (Dukwa) and are called Yokobu. The wood used to make the notes is called Ngula, and is also used to make slit drums. It is red when cut. It is sometimes used, they say, to make furniture for Europeans. Topical song with Kpingbi, six note xylophone, loose notes, one peg each, on banana stalks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Muzeze
- Authors: Engbaka Philippe and friend , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Manyema f-cg
- Language: Kusu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168878 , vital:41656 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-04
- Description: The players friend sat beside him with another Ekembe on which he played one note by way of a rhythmic accompaniment as the second instrument was not peoperly in tune, and so they could not be played together. This policeman, it appears, would insist upon any man he arrested dancing before him to the tune of his Ekembe on their way to the police station. No one thought this to be an imposition and in fact both policeman and offender enjoyed the performances. While the third song was being played a man in the crowd was actually arrested by another member of the African Police and marched off. Muzeze song with Ekembe 10 note Likembe.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Nawai, mwana zeda
- Authors: Engbaka Philippe and friend , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Aketi f-cg
- Language: Kusu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168905 , vital:41659 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-07
- Description: The players friend sat beside him with another Ekembe on which he played one note by way of a rhythmic accompaniment as the second instrument was not peoperly in tune, and so they could not be played together. This policeman, it appears, would insist upon any man he arrested dancing before him to the tune of his Ekembe on their way to the police station. No one thought this to be an imposition and in fact both policeman and offender enjoyed the performances. While the third song was being played a man in the crowd was actually arrested by another member of the African Police and marched off. Muzeze song with Ekembe 10 note Likembe.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Nebandima
- Authors: Mongika and Mangbele men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168973 , vital:41666 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-12
- Description: Mongika is the present Chief of the Mangbele. He and his two wives wore headdresses made of the scarlet tail feathers of the Congo parrot, a mark of distinction in this area. In this region on the northern edge of the great tropical forest large trees enable the people to make slit drums of many different shapes and sizes. Membranes for the ordinary kind of African drums are rare as antelopes are not easily found in the forest. The slit drums are therefore the more popular instruments for accompanying dances. Topical song with two wooden pod shaped slit drums, two cylindrical wooden slit drums, two basket rattles, two metal bells.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Negbada
- Authors: Mangbele men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168982 , vital:41667 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-13
- Description: In the hilly country of North Eastern Congo and in the great tropical forest basin of the Ituri, the Tipoyi or Sedan chair is still the only means of passenger transport away from the main roads. Not only officials but most native chiefs and notables are carried in this manner by four or more bearers, who after the fashion of all Africans use special occupational songs for this kind of work. Tipoyi carriers song, with two wooden pod shaped slit drums and two cylindrical slit drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Nekenye
- Authors: Mangbele men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168949 , vital:41664 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-10
- Description: The Mangbele are a sub-group of the Mangbetu, mixed with the Mamvy. Most tribes in this north eastern corner of the Congo have been absorbed in whole or in part by their neighbours. This Bantu tribe came under the cultural sway of the stronger Sudanic Mangbetu and have adopted the habits of their mentors. The name of the chief whose praises are sung in this song is Mokoto. Praise song for a Chief, with two wooden pod drums, and two cylindrical wooden slit drums and two bells and basket rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Neyo
- Authors: Mongika and Mangbele men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168964 , vital:41665 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-11
- Description: Mongika is the present Chief of the Mangbele. He and his two wives wore headdresses made of the scarlet tail feathers of the Congo parrot, a mark of distinction in this area. In this region on the northern edge of the great tropical forest large trees enable the people to make slit drums of many different shapes and sizes. Membranes for the ordinary kind of African drums are rare as antelopes are not easily found in the forest. The slit drums are therefore the more popular instruments for accompanying dances. Topical song with two wooden pod shaped slit drums, two cylindrical wooden slit drums, two basket rattles, two metal bells.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Wadima, Wadima
- Authors: Mangbele men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168995 , vital:41669 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-15
- Description: In the hilly country of North Eastern Congo and in the great tropical forest basin of the Ituri, the Tipoyi or Sedan chair is still the only means of passenger transport away from the main roads. Not only officials but most native chiefs and notables are carried in this manner by four or more bearers, who after the fashion of all Africans use special occupational songs for this kind of work. Tipoyi carriers song, with two wooden pod shaped slit drums and two cylindrical slit drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952