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O-oye Mama Jojinia

- Group of Chokwe men, Hugh Tracey

Oh yowe yowe

- Magidi's tshigombela team, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Oh yowe yowe

- Girls of Magidi's Tshigombela team, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Old woman (Zionist) improvising song and pretending to play ngoma

- Old Zionist Venda woman, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Olihomba (A well-dressed person)

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo married women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136715 , vital:37409 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-07
  • Description: The Mpondo women of this district wear their hair in bunches of fine waxed plaits on either side of their faces, with one thickish waxed plait straight down in the middle of the fore-head, and hanging below the nose or chin. Song for the Umngcutsho dance, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Owe mbale kwa Lyoto (I am going to Lyoto)

- Mwayulukula, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mwayulukula , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Safwa (African people)--Music , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
  • Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde , Safwa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151875 , vital:39182 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-07
  • Description: The singer was Safwa from Mbeya district of Southern Tanganyika. The tune "Wenela" is sung, they say, when going to join up with the Witswatersrand Native Labour Association organization to work on the mines of South Africa and elsewhere. Self-delectative song with Pango board zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Owu wangachata ngumufwete

- Malassa Soma, Group of Luvale men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Malassa Soma , Group of Luvale men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Mbunda (African people)--Zambia , Luvale (African people) , Luchazi (African people) , Chokwe (African people) , Folk songs, Chokwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Luvale f-za
  • Language: Mbunda , Subiya , Luvale , Luchazi , Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184133 , vital:44176 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR184-07
  • Description: The rhythm was tapped out on the body of the Likembe by a friend with a pen knife, the same tapping rhythm that is found from Angola across the continet to the Indian ocean. Luvale players often sit on a log or stool, lean over and play their instrument low down near the ground with obe arm coming from behind one leg and the other in front. A friend takes any convenient stick or piece of metal and taps out the inevitable rhythm on the body of the instrument itself avoiding the players thumbs which are plucking the tips of the reeds. Topical song with Likembe Mbira, with 8 notes above box and a knife
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Pa kufwa bata nali mwaice (When my father died, I was still small

- Kona Mofya, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kona Mofya , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134766 , vital:37202 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-14
  • Description: "When my father died I was still small." He mentions that his father died in 1949. Personal lament with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira, with external resonator.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Pachimane-cho chabekeshya (Over the river)

- Bancroft 7th Day Adventist Choir, Arr. Sankey and Moody, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Bancroft 7th Day Adventist Choir , Arr. Sankey and Moody , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Hymns, Bemba , Africa Zambia Bancroft Mine f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135468 , vital:37269 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-10
  • Description: The hymn is typical of those which are now being compiled by separatist congregations. Most of the melodies have been absorbed, digested and handed on in the oral folk tradition, so that it is now nearly impossible to trace their parentage. With each succeeding generation they appear to become more and more African in spirit and execution. 2 Hymns
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Palileni wanjiwa (Tell the people)

- Pikifoti Chilwa and Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

Pano pano tabikana mutima (This village is full of jealousy)

- Smart Chigwamba and group of 5 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Papiri

- William Mudobi, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Pelile Makoti (My love for you, Makoti, is finished)

- Citaumvano, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Citaumvano , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136614 , vital:37397 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-11
  • Description: Makoti was his wife. From what he said, the singer was devoted to her and their song was not to be taken too literally. His capotasto was placed on the fifth fret of the guitar. Love song with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Photofluorescence decay times of organic phosphors

- Hamilton, T D S

  • Authors: Hamilton, T D S
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Fluorescence , Phosphorescence
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:5525 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012136 , Fluorescence , Phosphorescence
  • Description: The absorption and emission of energy is a fundamental property of any atomic system.When the emission occurs in the visible or near visible region the phenomenon is usually referred to as luminescence or fluorescence. This must be distinguished from thermal radiation as it does not follow Kirchoff's law.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Pikifoti Chilwa (Name)

- Pikifoti Chilwa and Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Pikifoti Chilwa and Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Tumbuka , Malawi , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Luvale/Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137345 , vital:37513 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR037-06
  • Description: It appears to be common practice among these Nyasaland Tonga to sing about themselves and their friends and especially and their friends and especially those who are sufficiently gifted musically to compose new melodies and new words for them. Topical song
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Pikoko

- Group of Sotho women (Perfomers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Pindo yaka iwile (My whistle has dropped)

- D. Mwanambuyu, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: D. Mwanambuyu , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mangu f-za
  • Language: Lozi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139814 , vital:37787 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR051-10
  • Description: "I have dropped my whistle. I must run back, for otherwise somebody will pick it up." The tuning as follows:- 472, 440, 396, 356, 320, 296, 260, 236, 220, 198, 178, 148, 118 v.p.s. Self-delactative song with Kangombio fan-shaped mbira with external resonator and mirliton.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Plan of Grahamstown

- Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-

Po yami haya weswe

- Mulazhi Ronger and 2 Chokwe women, Hugh Tracey

Posilo

- William Mudobi, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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