Godwa aswibasanga
- Feliciano, Muntano Gomez, Gomez, F, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Feliciano, Muntano Gomez , Gomez, F , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132100 , vital:36799 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR004-01 , Field card no. 5
- Description: "If you have no child, it is no good. Other women have children, they fill the village. There are many men here standing in the queues for going to Johannesburg. You, my wife, you do not want to eat porridge, you want rice. There is no rice here, because I am poor. Go to the rich where they can afford rice. So she went to a rich man to get her rice, but now she gets no clothes, no shoes, and at leas, no food. One of four topical songs with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
- Authors: Feliciano, Muntano Gomez , Gomez, F , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132100 , vital:36799 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR004-01 , Field card no. 5
- Description: "If you have no child, it is no good. Other women have children, they fill the village. There are many men here standing in the queues for going to Johannesburg. You, my wife, you do not want to eat porridge, you want rice. There is no rice here, because I am poor. Go to the rich where they can afford rice. So she went to a rich man to get her rice, but now she gets no clothes, no shoes, and at leas, no food. One of four topical songs with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Matsaire
- o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez, Gomez, F, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez , 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/10962/131997 , vital:36784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-06 , Field card no. H1P-11
- Description: Feliciano's pronunciation of Ndau words, they say, is like a child's speech. "matsaire, you have finished all the people." Matsaire was killed in a certain village, and his ghost came back demanding recompense, under pain of death to all the village. One of three topical songs with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
- Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez , 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/10962/131997 , vital:36784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-06 , Field card no. H1P-11
- Description: Feliciano's pronunciation of Ndau words, they say, is like a child's speech. "matsaire, you have finished all the people." Matsaire was killed in a certain village, and his ghost came back demanding recompense, under pain of death to all the village. One of three topical songs with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Muchongolo II
- Balani, Pedro Simau, Ndau dancers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Balani, Pedro Simau , Ndau dancers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar music , Africa Mozambique Mpanda Mjege f-mz
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132033 , vital:36789 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-09 , Field card no. H1F-4B
- Description: The tumbling dance which has been developed by the Ndau people has not only spread south to neighbouring tribes, but has now become a favourite spectacle on the gold mines of South Africa where its performance delights the miners of other tribes as well. It is usually acrobatic and humorous, and is performed to complex rhythms on the drums. The performance of the dancers is frequently of a high order demanding considerable gymnastic ability. Dance music for Muchongolo Tumbling dance with 3 drums and clappers. (-12.02-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
- Authors: Balani, Pedro Simau , Ndau dancers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar music , Africa Mozambique Mpanda Mjege f-mz
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132033 , vital:36789 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-09 , Field card no. H1F-4B
- Description: The tumbling dance which has been developed by the Ndau people has not only spread south to neighbouring tribes, but has now become a favourite spectacle on the gold mines of South Africa where its performance delights the miners of other tribes as well. It is usually acrobatic and humorous, and is performed to complex rhythms on the drums. The performance of the dancers is frequently of a high order demanding considerable gymnastic ability. Dance music for Muchongolo Tumbling dance with 3 drums and clappers. (-12.02-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Ndinochema amasebe
- Sitole, Simon Mafiru, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Sitole, Simon Mafiru , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Mbira , Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132046 , vital:36790 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-10 , Field card no. L1B-6
- Description: "See, I am crying, mother-in-law. Poverty, elder brother, alack. See, Sophiatown is bad, patisoni. In my distress I think of home. Happiness to you all at Marange." The singer sings about the conditions in which he finds himself at Sofiatown, near Johannesburg, where he works as a carpenter's assistant. His home, Marange is in the Chipinga District of Southern Rhodesia, about 400 miles north east of Johannesburg. Three topical songs with mbira dza WaNdau and deze resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Sitole, Simon Mafiru , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Mbira , Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132046 , vital:36790 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-10 , Field card no. L1B-6
- Description: "See, I am crying, mother-in-law. Poverty, elder brother, alack. See, Sophiatown is bad, patisoni. In my distress I think of home. Happiness to you all at Marange." The singer sings about the conditions in which he finds himself at Sofiatown, near Johannesburg, where he works as a carpenter's assistant. His home, Marange is in the Chipinga District of Southern Rhodesia, about 400 miles north east of Johannesburg. Three topical songs with mbira dza WaNdau and deze resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Sipho sivelaphi
- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa --(African people) , Folk songs, Xhosa , Topical song , Guitar , Steel drum (Musical instrument) , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/109782 , vital:33190 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC117b-06
- Description: Topical song with bass guitar and steel pan drum accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa --(African people) , Folk songs, Xhosa , Topical song , Guitar , Steel drum (Musical instrument) , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/109782 , vital:33190 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC117b-06
- Description: Topical song with bass guitar and steel pan drum accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
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