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"Baberita babakana babasangule apumbu." (Babarita has been rejected and they have made a fool of her)
- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Composer not specified , 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/10962/134340 , vital:37124 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-07
- Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele x 8, fan shaped mbira, with external resonator and mirliton.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Composer not specified , 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/10962/134340 , vital:37124 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-07
- Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele x 8, fan shaped mbira, with external resonator and mirliton.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Bwalwa bwa chiwowo." (Beer not drunk in peace.)
- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Composer not specified , 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/10962/134313 , vital:37120 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-04
- Description: "This beer is for the people, the Kaonde, the Lamba and the Nsenga." The people who use magic are worrying me at my house. I must go to the diviner to find out who it is. Why are you standing there at the door? Come in and do not stay outside."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Composer not specified , 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/10962/134313 , vital:37120 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-04
- Description: "This beer is for the people, the Kaonde, the Lamba and the Nsenga." The people who use magic are worrying me at my house. I must go to the diviner to find out who it is. Why are you standing there at the door? Come in and do not stay outside."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Cilelensuma." (The sun set)
- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Composer not specified , 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/10962/134322 , vital:37121 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-05
- Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele x 8, fan shaped mbira, with external resonator and piece of glass tapped with metal.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Composer not specified , 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/10962/134322 , vital:37121 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-05
- Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele x 8, fan shaped mbira, with external resonator and piece of glass tapped with metal.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Ilanga lacona." (The sun set)
- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Composer not specified , 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/10962/134349 , vital:37125 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-08
- Description: The song is taken from the old well-known tune from S. Rhodesia ("Ilanga lashona."), which first become popular as a guitar song in Bulawayo. The cowboy, he sings, puts on a large hat as a sign of strenght.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Composer not specified , 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/10962/134349 , vital:37125 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-08
- Description: The song is taken from the old well-known tune from S. Rhodesia ("Ilanga lashona."), which first become popular as a guitar song in Bulawayo. The cowboy, he sings, puts on a large hat as a sign of strenght.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Kulilandile." (Crying)
- M. Kunda (Composer), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: M. Kunda (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134286 , vital:37115 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-01
- Description: "Wana Mtale, I am crying for my wife whom I have lost. She has gone away and not returned."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: M. Kunda (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134286 , vital:37115 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-01
- Description: "Wana Mtale, I am crying for my wife whom I have lost. She has gone away and not returned."
- 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
"Litsebe nka lengolo y ec hae." (Take this letter home)
- Group of Sotho men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Sotho men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Circumcision , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134277 , vital:37111 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-13
- Description: This song is sung when the initiates are coming back from their three month's initiation period in the mountains.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Sotho men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Circumcision , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134277 , vital:37111 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-13
- Description: This song is sung when the initiates are coming back from their three month's initiation period in the mountains.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Luwalo-o-iuwale." (Start, o start the song)
- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Composer not specified , 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/10962/134304 , vital:37118 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-03
- Description: "What are we doing? The White men have come. Their tents are over there beyond the Chiwombo river." This was first sung long ago, they say, when the Whites first came to their country about 1900, or a little earlier.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Composer not specified , 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/10962/134304 , vital:37118 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-03
- Description: "What are we doing? The White men have come. Their tents are over there beyond the Chiwombo river." This was first sung long ago, they say, when the Whites first came to their country about 1900, or a little earlier.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Nandi ubeya Kumikoti." (I too am a recruit for the copper belt"
- Group of 6 Aushi men and Edward Shoni., Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of 6 Aushi men and Edward Shoni. , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
- Language: Aushi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134367 , vital:37134 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-10
- Description: The song says: "I lived for a long time in the country and then decided to come and work on the copper belt. And I was terribly frightened and afraid of everything to bein with." Song to celebrate the depature of a boy to the copper belt.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of 6 Aushi men and Edward Shoni. , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
- Language: Aushi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134367 , vital:37134 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-10
- Description: The song says: "I lived for a long time in the country and then decided to come and work on the copper belt. And I was terribly frightened and afraid of everything to bein with." Song to celebrate the depature of a boy to the copper belt.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Nina Namusonda Sanguweji." (The girl Namusonda Sanguweji)
- M. Kunda (Composer), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: M. Kunda (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Love songs , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134295 , vital:37116 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-02
- Description: "There is no one in the world who is lovlier than my girl Namusonda Sanguweji."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: M. Kunda (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Love songs , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134295 , vital:37116 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-02
- Description: "There is no one in the world who is lovlier than my girl Namusonda Sanguweji."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
(a) Dendera jikwa; (b) Murombo
- Raimon Jeketi (Performer), Composer not specified
- Authors: Raimon Jeketi (Performer) , Composer not specified
- Subjects: Two tunes , Indigenous folk music , Chizambi friction bow , Self delectative , Fort Victoria (Masvingo) , Victoria Province (Masvingo Province) , Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15342 , MOA26-05 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017647 , MOA26
- Description: English translation of titles: (a) 'The nest of the hammerkop'; (b) 'The poor man' , Two tunes (separately titled) of self delectation on the chizambi friction bow by Raimon Jeketi , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Raimon Jeketi (Performer) , Composer not specified
- Subjects: Two tunes , Indigenous folk music , Chizambi friction bow , Self delectative , Fort Victoria (Masvingo) , Victoria Province (Masvingo Province) , Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15342 , MOA26-05 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017647 , MOA26
- Description: English translation of titles: (a) 'The nest of the hammerkop'; (b) 'The poor man' , Two tunes (separately titled) of self delectation on the chizambi friction bow by Raimon Jeketi , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
- Full Text: false
(a) Drum signals of the Mangbele 'Call to fight'
- Drummers of Chief Mongika (Performer, Composer unknown
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika (Performer , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Indigenous music , Folk music , Drum signals , Drum rhythms , Drums , Gombari , Ituri , Congo , Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15405 , MOA29-09 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017711 , MOA29
- Description: Drum rhythms or signals with 2 slit drums, 2 large pod shaped slit drums and 2 long cylindrical drums accompaniment , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika (Performer , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Indigenous music , Folk music , Drum signals , Drum rhythms , Drums , Gombari , Ituri , Congo , Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15405 , MOA29-09 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017711 , MOA29
- Description: Drum rhythms or signals with 2 slit drums, 2 large pod shaped slit drums and 2 long cylindrical drums accompaniment , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
- Full Text: false
(a) Mutomboko; (b) Luwendo
- Six Luba men (Performer), Composer not specified
- Authors: Six Luba men (Performer) , Composer not specified
- Subjects: Two ceremonial tunes for a chief , Indigenous folk music , Silimba xylophone , Goblet drums , Shinkolobwe , Katanga Province , Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15438 , MOA31-09 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017744 , MOA31
- Description: Two ceremonial tunes for a chief by a group of six Luba men, with silimba xylophone, accompanied by 3 goblet drums (pinned, weighted, closed, with mirlitons, and handbeaten) , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Six Luba men (Performer) , Composer not specified
- Subjects: Two ceremonial tunes for a chief , Indigenous folk music , Silimba xylophone , Goblet drums , Shinkolobwe , Katanga Province , Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15438 , MOA31-09 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017744 , MOA31
- Description: Two ceremonial tunes for a chief by a group of six Luba men, with silimba xylophone, accompanied by 3 goblet drums (pinned, weighted, closed, with mirlitons, and handbeaten) , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
- Full Text: false
(A)Kankukhu (The Chicken) (B) Kaposi Kapila (One, two) (C) Thu njeketu (I have walked with my sister)
- Young Chewa girls and boys, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Young Chewa girls and boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Vidzumo, Kasungu, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153311 , vital:39434 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-01
- Description: These are traditional children's verses whose meaning is obsecure as, it is believed, they are composite collections of odd lines. But the words sound well and so have survied. a) "The small chicken is angry. You have refused me everything. You have made me cross. It is enough to make me leave you" says the small chicken. b) A counting jingle. c) "I have walked with my sister. I have forgotten my bow and arrows. Go fetch them for me. Why have I given them to someone else (The sister replies) "Shall I brew you some beer? (Reply) "I don't drink beer." Children's verses.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Young Chewa girls and boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Vidzumo, Kasungu, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153311 , vital:39434 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-01
- Description: These are traditional children's verses whose meaning is obsecure as, it is believed, they are composite collections of odd lines. But the words sound well and so have survied. a) "The small chicken is angry. You have refused me everything. You have made me cross. It is enough to make me leave you" says the small chicken. b) A counting jingle. c) "I have walked with my sister. I have forgotten my bow and arrows. Go fetch them for me. Why have I given them to someone else (The sister replies) "Shall I brew you some beer? (Reply) "I don't drink beer." Children's verses.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
00:03:29
- Venancio Mbande and his Chopi Timbila xylophone orchestra players of Wildebeesfontein, Tracey, Andrew T N
- Authors: Venancio Mbande and his Chopi Timbila xylophone orchestra players of Wildebeesfontein , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- Music , Folk music -- South Africa , Xylophone (Musical instruments) , Drum (Musical instruments) , Rattle (Musical instruments) , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Wildebeesfontein f-sa
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/98752 , vital:31618 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC072a-04
- Description: Taditional dance song played by Venancio Mbande for Timbila solo analysis
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Venancio Mbande and his Chopi Timbila xylophone orchestra players of Wildebeesfontein , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- Music , Folk music -- South Africa , Xylophone (Musical instruments) , Drum (Musical instruments) , Rattle (Musical instruments) , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Wildebeesfontein f-sa
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/98752 , vital:31618 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC072a-04
- Description: Taditional dance song played by Venancio Mbande for Timbila solo analysis
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
18 heures
- Ma Sane, Do Sagna, Yade (vocals), Toto (guitar), Race, Magx Thiam (keyboards), Galass, Mbaye Joola (percussion), Beuz (drums), Studio 2000
- Authors: Ma Sane, Do Sagna, Yade (vocals) , Toto (guitar) , Race, Magx Thiam (keyboards) , Galass, Mbaye Joola (percussion) , Beuz (drums) , Studio 2000
- Date: 2000
- Subjects: Popular music , Popular music--Africa, West , Africa Senegal Thies f-sg
- Language: Wolof
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/128162 , vital:36082 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , SDC10-07
- Description: Senegalese band featuring singing accompanied by keyboard, guitar and percussion
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2000
- Authors: Ma Sane, Do Sagna, Yade (vocals) , Toto (guitar) , Race, Magx Thiam (keyboards) , Galass, Mbaye Joola (percussion) , Beuz (drums) , Studio 2000
- Date: 2000
- Subjects: Popular music , Popular music--Africa, West , Africa Senegal Thies f-sg
- Language: Wolof
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/128162 , vital:36082 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , SDC10-07
- Description: Senegalese band featuring singing accompanied by keyboard, guitar and percussion
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2000
2nd March 1965
- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical songs , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/101912 , vital:32048 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC086b-06
- Description: Topical song with guitar accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical songs , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/101912 , vital:32048 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC086b-06
- Description: Topical song with guitar accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
A Baiwelu (The story of the foolish young man 'Baiwelu')
- Four Chewa lads, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Four Chewa lads , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota District, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153864 , vital:39531 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-09
- Description: There was once a man who wanted to get married and he found two sisters. He asked the elder on to marry him and she agreed. But when he came back the next day the elder sister was not at home and he asked the younger sister to marry him instead. She said, "What about my elder sister, and what would we do with her?" The elder sister heard about the proposal to the younger sister, she cooked food, put poison in it and gave it to the young man so he died. When they were taking his body to the grave they sang this song: "Baiwelu, you were killed by Berita (the name of the elder sister). But when they sang this song the dead Bauwelu heard it and became alive again." Story with song "Ntano" with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Four Chewa lads , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota District, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153864 , vital:39531 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-09
- Description: There was once a man who wanted to get married and he found two sisters. He asked the elder on to marry him and she agreed. But when he came back the next day the elder sister was not at home and he asked the younger sister to marry him instead. She said, "What about my elder sister, and what would we do with her?" The elder sister heard about the proposal to the younger sister, she cooked food, put poison in it and gave it to the young man so he died. When they were taking his body to the grave they sang this song: "Baiwelu, you were killed by Berita (the name of the elder sister). But when they sang this song the dead Bauwelu heard it and became alive again." Story with song "Ntano" with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
A bengai kakoi
- Engbaka Philippe and friend (Performer), Composer not specified
- Authors: Engbaka Philippe and friend (Performer) , Composer not specified
- Subjects: Muzeze dance tune , Indigenous folk music , Ekembe (local likembe or mbira) , Aketi , Northern Congo , Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15306 , MOA23-12 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017452 , MOA23
- Description: Muzeze dance music by Engbaka Philippe and friend, accompanied by ekembe (local likembe or mbira) , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Engbaka Philippe and friend (Performer) , Composer not specified
- Subjects: Muzeze dance tune , Indigenous folk music , Ekembe (local likembe or mbira) , Aketi , Northern Congo , Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15306 , MOA23-12 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017452 , MOA23
- Description: Muzeze dance music by Engbaka Philippe and friend, accompanied by ekembe (local likembe or mbira) , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
- Full Text: false