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Ziriya yapasharo

- Manyoni Zhou and Simoni Mashoko Shawa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Manyoni Zhou and Simoni Mashoko Shawa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chilimanzi f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181444 , vital:43734 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR175-04
  • Description: It is usual for semi-professional entertainers of this kind to keep up running patter of amusing remarks and scandal to the traditional airs played on the Njari in the background. Like many other players of this instrument Manyoni Zhou calls himself "The player of Mbira". The two musicians come from neighbouring districts, Zhou from Chilimanzi and Mashoko from Buhera, the district in which the Njari originated about 1760 A.D. Topical song with two Njari Mbira, one with 33 notes and one with 31 notes.
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  • Date Issued: 1949

Zinyamareu, cheka wacheka

- Performer not specified, Ndau people, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Zindekaiwa

- Ndau children, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Zigazikaragwe

- Bijyiyobyenda, Simon, 8 Hutu men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Zani muoni kayuni kana matengazela

- Mhango, Rubeni, Tracey, Hugh

Zani muoni kayuni kana mategezela

- Rubeni Mhango, Henga men at the Mufulira Mine, Tracey, Hugh

Zani muoni kayuni

- Rubeni Mhango, Henga men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Zani muone kayuni kana matengezela

- Mhango, Rubeni, Henga men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Wezulu walila (The Zulu are crying)

- Gordon Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Wezulu walila

- Tumbuka and Ngoni men and women, performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Wezulu walila

- Tumbuka and Ngoni men and women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Wee Sesi

- Masuluke's Pretoria Singers, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Wavala Wenela

- Soldiers, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Wathi wa Ota

- Mutio wa Katuma, performer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Wacheni tamaa = Do not covet

- Fataki, Ramadhani, Nana, Saidi Salum and Jama, Tatu Binti, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Fataki, Ramadhani, Nana, Saidi Salum and Jama, Tatu Binti , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
  • Language: Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179660 , vital:43130 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-10
  • Description: The Arab influence is still strong up country particularly along the old Arab trading routes. All the seven items on this side of the disc represent an evening's entertainment spent with a Mohamedan Swahili family in Tabora whose taste in music leans towrds the Arab side of the family than the African. Two close friends who frequently play together in the evenings recorded these items. The wife of one of them provides some of the solos. They are typical, no doubt, of a musical evening at home by Swahili players anywhere in East Africa. All the items were recorded in the small sitting room of their Swahili home. The men singers sat around a table in the light of a parafin lamp and their veiled womenfolk sat on mats in the adjoining rooms, watching through the doorways. "Do not covet because there is no colour bar in jail. Even though you go to London and become a Barrister at law if you are in trouble you are in trouble just the same. I am a somebody at my home but prison they regard me as a nobody" Topical Taarab song, with 1 Udi, 1 Mandoline and 1 Duff tambourine drum (-14.91-).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Wa Mambo

- o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez (Performer), Gomez, F, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez (Performer) , Gomez, F , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1955
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar music , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
  • Language: Ndau
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132010 , vital:36785 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-07 , Field card no. H1P-25
  • Description: "Chief, chief, what does the great 'Lion' require? This item is typical of so many African songs in which the courtesies due to chiefs and important people in a local community are referred to in terms of extravagant adulation which hold little meaning for those outside the immediate social circle involved. One of three topical songs with guitar.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1955

Wa mambo

- Tongayana Orelio Kowano, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Wa Mambo

- Tonganyana Orelio Kowano (Performer), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Wa le bona la sobela

- Botha, Karika (Recorded by), Sesotho women and children (Performer), Composer unknown

Vho mambegwane ho lele

- Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by), Ramakuwela, Elisa (Performer), Composer unknown

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