He ba bua kgethwa baeme (They thrash skins)
- Tweleve Kwena men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Tweleve Kwena men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Kwena (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Molepolole f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Kwena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162826 , vital:40987 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0109-10
- Description: "They thrash skins. Early in the morning with the marks of strips on their backs." The translation is doubtful. It appears that flagellation forms an important part of Tswana men's initiation rites. Male initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Tweleve Kwena men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Kwena (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Molepolole f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Kwena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162826 , vital:40987 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0109-10
- Description: "They thrash skins. Early in the morning with the marks of strips on their backs." The translation is doubtful. It appears that flagellation forms an important part of Tswana men's initiation rites. Male initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Ea ema nthodona matsetsela
- Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Divination , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134250 , vital:37107 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-11
- Description: This Izangoma and his wife were both dressed in scarlet, with skirts lavishly sewn with beads and many bead and "lucky seed" necklaces and bangles and leggings. Bead bands and strands on the head. The learner-izangomaare distinguished by a string of white beads round their heads.The Izangoma were supposed to be finding and throwing a "spirit" out of someone who had ben bewitched. At the end of the recording, one member of the audience remarked:- "There is no tokolosh (imp) here." Much laughter. The words were partly in Zulu, although the performers were actually Sotho.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Divination , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134250 , vital:37107 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-11
- Description: This Izangoma and his wife were both dressed in scarlet, with skirts lavishly sewn with beads and many bead and "lucky seed" necklaces and bangles and leggings. Bead bands and strands on the head. The learner-izangomaare distinguished by a string of white beads round their heads.The Izangoma were supposed to be finding and throwing a "spirit" out of someone who had ben bewitched. At the end of the recording, one member of the audience remarked:- "There is no tokolosh (imp) here." Much laughter. The words were partly in Zulu, although the performers were actually Sotho.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Lefatse le tletse meea e mebe." (Take this letter home.)
- Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Divination , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134259 , vital:37108 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-12
- Description: This song is sung when the initiates are coming back from their three months' initiation period in the mountains.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Divination , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134259 , vital:37108 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-12
- Description: This song is sung when the initiates are coming back from their three months' initiation period in the mountains.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Lefatse le tletse meea e mebe." (The country is full of evil spirits)
- Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Divination , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134268 , vital:37109 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-12
- Description: The Izangoma were supposed to be finding and throwing a "spirit" out of someone who had been bewitched. At the end of the recording, one member of the audience remarked:- "There is no tokolosh (imp) here." Much laughter. The words were partly in Zulu, although the perfomers were actually Sotho.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Divination , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134268 , vital:37109 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-12
- Description: The Izangoma were supposed to be finding and throwing a "spirit" out of someone who had been bewitched. At the end of the recording, one member of the audience remarked:- "There is no tokolosh (imp) here." Much laughter. The words were partly in Zulu, although the perfomers were actually Sotho.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tula mutwana
- Two elderly women (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Two elderly women (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133660 , vital:37001 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-13
- Description: Lullaby with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Two elderly women (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133660 , vital:37001 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-13
- Description: Lullaby with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Yo baba ngonile
- TXkama, the head wife (Inozikasi) and the seven Ngoni wives of the Chief, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: TXkama, the head wife (Inozikasi) and the seven Ngoni wives of the Chief , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mbelwa f-mw
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160889 , vital:40558 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-15
- Description: An old Ngoni wedding song sung by seven old women with a man giving the 'Ndicindici' (praises). The women start by bending down. One singing the words, the others humming and singing together as they stand in line with typical Zulu type actions of body and hands. Wedding song, together with praises.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: TXkama, the head wife (Inozikasi) and the seven Ngoni wives of the Chief , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mbelwa f-mw
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160889 , vital:40558 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-15
- Description: An old Ngoni wedding song sung by seven old women with a man giving the 'Ndicindici' (praises). The women start by bending down. One singing the words, the others humming and singing together as they stand in line with typical Zulu type actions of body and hands. Wedding song, together with praises.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Jabulani
- Authors: unknown , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chipunga f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181839 , vital:43774 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-17
- Description: Self delectative song, with Mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
- Authors: unknown , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chipunga f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181839 , vital:43774 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-17
- Description: Self delectative song, with Mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
Tiende Serukwe
- Authors: unknown , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chipunga f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181834 , vital:43773 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-16
- Description: Self delectative song, with Mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
- Authors: unknown , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chipunga f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181834 , vital:43773 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-16
- Description: Self delectative song, with Mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
Amasewe
- Authors: unknown , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chipunga f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181856 , vital:43775 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-18
- Description: Self delectative song, with Mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
- Authors: unknown , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chipunga f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181856 , vital:43775 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-18
- Description: Self delectative song, with Mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
Izibongo zika Botha Sigcau (Praises of the Paramount Chief of the Mpondo)
- Usukude Uqnasa Imbongi, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Usukude Uqnasa Imbongi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Praise , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136425 , vital:37375 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-02
- Description: The cries at the end are equivalent to the Zulu "Bayete." "Hail." Praises with laudatory cries.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Usukude Uqnasa Imbongi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Praise , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136425 , vital:37375 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-02
- Description: The cries at the end are equivalent to the Zulu "Bayete." "Hail." Praises with laudatory cries.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Uswezi I
- Uwilula with old Nyamwezi women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Uwilula with old Nyamwezi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-SA f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172996 , vital:42307 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-09
- Description: Uswezi is said to be the name of a special religious group which believes in divination and power of magic. They speak a special patois or code language of their cult. Unlike the Migabo they are not considered to be useful to society but have certain influence in the land. The song was recorded in Dar-es-Salaam, but their origin is up country near Tabora in the home district of the Nyamwezi tribe. Uswezi divination song, with gourd rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Uwilula with old Nyamwezi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-SA f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172996 , vital:42307 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-09
- Description: Uswezi is said to be the name of a special religious group which believes in divination and power of magic. They speak a special patois or code language of their cult. Unlike the Migabo they are not considered to be useful to society but have certain influence in the land. The song was recorded in Dar-es-Salaam, but their origin is up country near Tabora in the home district of the Nyamwezi tribe. Uswezi divination song, with gourd rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Uswezi II
- Uwilula with old Nyamwezi women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Uwilula with old Nyamwezi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173001 , vital:42309 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-10
- Description: Uswezi is said to be the name of a special religious group which believes in divination and power of magic. They speak a special patois or code language of their cult. Unlike the Migabo they are not considered to be useful to society but have certain influence in the land. The song was recorded in Dar-es-Salaam, but their origin is up country near Tabora in the home district of the Nyamwezi tribe. Uswezi divination song, with gourd rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Uwilula with old Nyamwezi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173001 , vital:42309 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-10
- Description: Uswezi is said to be the name of a special religious group which believes in divination and power of magic. They speak a special patois or code language of their cult. Unlike the Migabo they are not considered to be useful to society but have certain influence in the land. The song was recorded in Dar-es-Salaam, but their origin is up country near Tabora in the home district of the Nyamwezi tribe. Uswezi divination song, with gourd rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Munthu na chinkwanya
- Verrah Chirwa, Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Verrah Chirwa , Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185566 , vital:44399 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-20
- Description: The story teller was taught this story, she says, by her uncle's wife. This is a story about a brother and a sister who went to see their sister in the next village. Before they left they were warned not to take a certain path. When they reached the junction they started arguing about which was the right path. Unfortunately they took the wrong path which led them to a giant. Story song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Verrah Chirwa , Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185566 , vital:44399 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-20
- Description: The story teller was taught this story, she says, by her uncle's wife. This is a story about a brother and a sister who went to see their sister in the next village. Before they left they were warned not to take a certain path. When they reached the junction they started arguing about which was the right path. Unfortunately they took the wrong path which led them to a giant. Story song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Cisokole
- Verrah Chirwa, Tumbuga girls at the Blantyre Secondary School, Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Verrah Chirwa , Tumbuga girls at the Blantyre Secondary School , Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186244 , vital:44476 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-04
- Description: This is a story about certain men who went out hunting abd discovered some eggs and ate a few of them. They decided that they would not carry any home, but one of them, because he loved his wife, took home for his wife. His wife made him bring these eggs several times until in the end the snake, which laid these eggs, killed them. The story teller says she was taught this story by her mother's mother. Story song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Verrah Chirwa , Tumbuga girls at the Blantyre Secondary School , Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186244 , vital:44476 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-04
- Description: This is a story about certain men who went out hunting abd discovered some eggs and ate a few of them. They decided that they would not carry any home, but one of them, because he loved his wife, took home for his wife. His wife made him bring these eggs several times until in the end the snake, which laid these eggs, killed them. The story teller says she was taught this story by her mother's mother. Story song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Bayile
- Villagers from Dabi's location near Peddie, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Villagers from Dabi's location near Peddie , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149190 , vital:38813 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-05
- Description: The words of this song make no sense. The people of this district are actually Fingo or Mfengu but speak Ngqika. Their ancestors were refugees from Shaka and came here from Swaziland over 120 years ago. The song is sung before initiation, when the young man is old enough to undergo his ordeal. Circumcision song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Villagers from Dabi's location near Peddie , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149190 , vital:38813 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-05
- Description: The words of this song make no sense. The people of this district are actually Fingo or Mfengu but speak Ngqika. Their ancestors were refugees from Shaka and came here from Swaziland over 120 years ago. The song is sung before initiation, when the young man is old enough to undergo his ordeal. Circumcision song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Wena Bawondi Wela
- Villagers from Dabi's location near Peddie, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Villagers from Dabi's location near Peddie , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149199 , vital:38814 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-06
- Description: The words of this song make no sense. The woman leading this song was pleased at the long final note of the song being recorded and said "This thing (i.e. the loud speaker) kept up with me the whole way. The people of this district are actually Fingo or Mfengu but speak Ngqika. Their ancestors were refugees from Shaka and came here from Swaziland over 120 years ago. The song is sung before initiation, when the young man is old enough to undergo his ordeal. Circumcision song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Villagers from Dabi's location near Peddie , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149199 , vital:38814 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-06
- Description: The words of this song make no sense. The woman leading this song was pleased at the long final note of the song being recorded and said "This thing (i.e. the loud speaker) kept up with me the whole way. The people of this district are actually Fingo or Mfengu but speak Ngqika. Their ancestors were refugees from Shaka and came here from Swaziland over 120 years ago. The song is sung before initiation, when the young man is old enough to undergo his ordeal. Circumcision song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Opela utumiza (Though you give me cloth)
- Visanza girl's school choir, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Visanza girl's school choir , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160016 , vital:40369 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-05
- Description: The man in the context went away to look for his employer, Mr. Baloni (Mr. Baron) near Lilongwe and stayed away for a very long time. He sent his wife cloth, but she said she did not want just cloth but her husband for whom she would go all the way to Lilongwe in order to be with him. Nsita dance song for women with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Visanza girl's school choir , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160016 , vital:40369 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-05
- Description: The man in the context went away to look for his employer, Mr. Baloni (Mr. Baron) near Lilongwe and stayed away for a very long time. He sent his wife cloth, but she said she did not want just cloth but her husband for whom she would go all the way to Lilongwe in order to be with him. Nsita dance song for women with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ku Mchisi kuli mtengo (At Mchisi there is a tree)
- Visanza girl's school choir, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Visanza girl's school choir , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160007 , vital:40367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-04
- Description: The Nkaodi tree is used as a love charm, the roots being taken soaked in water and drunk, mostly by women in the hope that their husbands will love them more. It would appear that this tune, used as a dance theme in the 1930's reflected the European influence of the period, with the stress incorrectly applied to the ultimate syllables. "At Mchisi there is a tree as a medicine. It is Nkaodi. Two Nsita dance songs for women with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Visanza girl's school choir , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160007 , vital:40367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-04
- Description: The Nkaodi tree is used as a love charm, the roots being taken soaked in water and drunk, mostly by women in the hope that their husbands will love them more. It would appear that this tune, used as a dance theme in the 1930's reflected the European influence of the period, with the stress incorrectly applied to the ultimate syllables. "At Mchisi there is a tree as a medicine. It is Nkaodi. Two Nsita dance songs for women with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Nijurireni
- W. Theu, Tembuka boys, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: W. Theu , Tembuka boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184967 , vital:44294 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-18
- Description: There was once a child who was sent to bring food to her father in his hut. She asked to come in and he first asked her what relish she had brought; she told him vegetables but she was sent back again to teh kitchen. Each time she came with vegetables she was sent away until the relish provided was meat. He did not want beans and vegetables, only meat-the greedy creature! "Open for me, Ha-he! Open, open ndera ndera As you say, open for me, what have you brought? I have brought porridge. What is the relish? The relish is beans. If the relish is beans, go and eat with your mother! The relish is vegetables. Go and eat with your mother. The relish is meat! Come inside, come inside." Story song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: W. Theu , Tembuka boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184967 , vital:44294 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-18
- Description: There was once a child who was sent to bring food to her father in his hut. She asked to come in and he first asked her what relish she had brought; she told him vegetables but she was sent back again to teh kitchen. Each time she came with vegetables she was sent away until the relish provided was meat. He did not want beans and vegetables, only meat-the greedy creature! "Open for me, Ha-he! Open, open ndera ndera As you say, open for me, what have you brought? I have brought porridge. What is the relish? The relish is beans. If the relish is beans, go and eat with your mother! The relish is vegetables. Go and eat with your mother. The relish is meat! Come inside, come inside." Story song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Akamkungulu kagaya (Why are you angry)
- Wachezaji wa Manyanga. Leader, Kasomangila Husen Ishike, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Wachezaji wa Manyanga. Leader, Kasomangila Husen Ishike , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Baraza Ndono f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173192 , vital:42342 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR149-09
- Description: "Why are you angry with me, you are not my father, you are not my brother, leave me alone." This team of professional dancers do a number of acrobatic step dances. The rhythm of their movements is accentuated by the ankle bells. The drums only appear towards the end of the item. Dance song and 1 goblet pegged drum (-14.51101-) and bells (-12.55-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Wachezaji wa Manyanga. Leader, Kasomangila Husen Ishike , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Baraza Ndono f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173192 , vital:42342 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR149-09
- Description: "Why are you angry with me, you are not my father, you are not my brother, leave me alone." This team of professional dancers do a number of acrobatic step dances. The rhythm of their movements is accentuated by the ankle bells. The drums only appear towards the end of the item. Dance song and 1 goblet pegged drum (-14.51101-) and bells (-12.55-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950