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"Hoe hoe"

- Bibi, Mwana, Swahili women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Bibi, Mwana , Swahili women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 0000-00-00
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malindi f-ke
  • Language: Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/213443 , vital:47833 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT232-D154 , Research no. D7N14b
  • Description: This song follows the recording of D7N14a, however no field card or information was recorded for the song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 0000-00-00

(a) Mai vandoswerepiko

- Muchabaiwa, Remigio and Richard, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Alleluia

- Zulu church choir, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Alleluia

- Louis Trichardt church music workshop participants, Mpotulo, Lambert, Dargie, Dave

Alonde

- Church Choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Amen

- Zion Apostolic Holy Church Congregation, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Angus dei

- Church music workshop participants, Molefe, S. C., Dargie, Dave

Atabala - Atabala

- Chrisesitomu Gingo, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Bawo Wethu

- Langa church choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Bembani kaya nwana

- Andires Kanakana, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Charo, charo

- Nyamkhomo, Adija, Chewa women and children, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Chitima

- Muchabaiwa, Remigio and Richard, not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Chondiruma wei

- People of Chief Gunda, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Dale mu bele sa

- Muyapala Kpeli, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Muyapala Kpeli , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
  • Language: Zande/Bandiya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167409 , vital:41477 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0122-10
  • Description: Unlike most harps of this design, this one was held upright with the point of the body on the performers knees, the neck pointing away from him, the strings in a vertical postition and not horizontal. They do not hold their tuning for long and must be returned before each performance. Long song with vertical, angular Kundi harp of 5 strings. and Andzolo metal hand bells.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952

Dale mu bele sa

- Muyapala Kpeli, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Dance des pygmees batwa

- performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Effects (Woman smoking a "hubble-hubble" pipe)

- Tonga woman, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tonga woman , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138876 , vital:37681 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-11
  • Description: These pipes are made of calabashes with stems. In the bowl of the calabash a wooden or clay pipe bowl is inserted which contains charcoal and tobacco. The bowl of the calabash is half filled with water, only the women do this, the men prefer to smoke without water. Effects with Ndombondo pipe.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Elo-e mokwata-e (Hullo, marry)

- Losani Malewa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Losani Malewa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Lomwe (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mkanda f-mw
  • Language: Lomwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160670 , vital:40496 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-12
  • Description: "All right! let him go and get himself married, he is far too young but let him try. He will come howling home again." "Hullo, marry! Let him go and marry. And he will come back howling." The Tangara bowed lute had one string. It was tuned by means of a tuning peg and a straining loop of string for more a accurate pitch. From straining string to bridge was 13 inches and the lute itself was two and a half inches overall. The resonating body was five and half inches tall gourd with a hole pierced in one side. Self delectative song with one-stringed stressed lute Thangara.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1958

Entrance Procession

- Sacred Music Festival Participants, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Envubuterindwa buziba

- Madinda ga Kabaka xylophone players of the Lubiri Palace, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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