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Ngoma yalila mphela (The drum keeps on beating)

- Group of 12 Ngoni women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 12 Ngoni women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
  • Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137465 , vital:37527 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-03
  • Description: "My husband likes to roam, so I shall break his bicycle." These women were Ngoni, but singing in Nsenga the language of their forebears. The singing of the Ngoni is especially interesting for the fact that they sing in 2 distinct styles, that of the Zulu (Ngoni), their father's tribe and that of their mother's tribes who were conquered by the Ngoni. Both strains are still clearly defined after nearly a century of integration. Women's party dance song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nimwe kuya kusilya mukaniuzile amboni

- Group of Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
  • Language: Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184399 , vital:44218 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-01
  • Description: The singers sang with a completely composed and sedate manner, and listened to the playback without a smile, but applauded themselves enthusiastically at the end as did the crowd who shouted "Very good." "You people of the watch tower, when you go across the river (Zambesi) go and ask them where my brother sleeps. The people of Satani have lied that people who died go to heaven (and do not stay here in the country of Petauke)." The idea that the souls of the dead leave the familiar earth and go to a far place 'heaven' is repugnant to some African people even though they may be Christian in name. They prefer the more homely resting place of the home country and its well known features. Lament
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nyamwaritsa kurira ndopasa dza bwio (If you do well, I'll give you something good)

- Josita Phiri, Hugh Tracey

Nyasalandi kutari (Nyasaland is far away)

- Dabesoni Bata, Hugh Tracey

Sipenbela nkosi (We are waiting for the Chief)

- Group of 14 Ngoni men and chorus of women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 14 Ngoni men and chorus of women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
  • Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137620 , vital:37543 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-13
  • Description: This was probably composed long ago when the people of Mzilikazi were being driven out of the Transvaal by the Boers in the middle of the nineteenth century. The singers agreed that this was a Ndebele song not of the Ngoni songs - but they said their languages were so similar that they had adopted it. Ngoma dance song with stamping and 1 pair of leg rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Siyakulindila utinina? (What are you waiting for?)

- Group of 14 Ngoni men abd chorus of women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 14 Ngoni men abd chorus of women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
  • Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137547 , vital:37536 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-12
  • Description: The song belongs to "umgubo" or, in Zulu "ihubo" type of regimental singing. They were sung by the Mpezeni regiment, in 1920. The last of the age groups to be called officially a regiment by the Ngoni tribe. Ngoma dance song with stamping and 1 pair of leg rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ukhosi wako biba ugodhliliwan ngubani (Who is going to take over the chieftainship)

- Group of 14 Ngoni men and chorus of Ngoni women led by Mischeck Ndhlamini, Hugh Tracey

A Mwanjawanthu Cifundo

- Nsenga Women, Composer Not Specified, Tracey, Hugh

A Nyece Na Nyina

- Nsenga Women, Composer Not Specified, Tracey, Hugh

Acibinda Tiye Tonse

- Nsenga men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Anyamata We Nileke

- Kunda singers, Composer not Specified, Tracey, Hugh

Jeri Mwana Wangu

- Kunda singers, Composer not Specified, Tracey, Hugh

Jerita Enipa Nthenda Jerita

- Kunda singers, Composer not Specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ka M'njili Kana Wana

- Nsenga men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ni koni kanji aka

- Nsenga boys, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Niwe Ciola Ucitisha Nsoni Pa Ng'anda

- Kunda singers, Composer not Specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ucende wa mufuangwa

- Kunda men and woman, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ada a Banda

- Lucy Nyamangwe, Tonga girls, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Anthu acilendo

- Lucy Nyamangwe, Tonga girls, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Ici ncumba

- Lucy Nyamangwe, Tonga girls, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

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