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Zuwa rawira mukaiwe (The sun is setting, wake up)

- Muchuru Zhou with a man and woman, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Muchuru Zhou with a man and woman , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180501 , vital:43395 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-08
  • Description: There was, once upon a time a baboon who was walking in amongst the hills and found plenty of fruit. Matamba ('Kaffir oranges', strychnos spinosa). He ate a great many and went to sleep on the path, full to the brim. Presently an old woman who was collecting firewood came along and said "My child, why are you sleeping on the path like this?" He did not reply. So she said, "Wake up, the sun is setting." He said, "I don't want to, I am full." Then he said "Come here and listen to my song". So she came near and the baboon sang his song. "The sun is setting, wake up, wake up! Ha-hey-ha, old woman! She makes me laugh. I have discovered this hill here. Which is full of fruit, so I go here and there, eating my fill and laughing." Now when he had finished singing, he woke up, got up and followed the old woman all the way to her home. Son story.
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  • Date Issued: 1949

Zuwa na mwezi

- Nsenga women at Chief Mwanjawatu's village, performer not specified, Yelele Lungu, Tracey, Hugh

Zuwa na mwezi

- Yelele Lungu, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Yelele Lungu , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
  • Language: Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184464 , vital:44225 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-08
  • Description: The sun and the moon are contrasted as lovers. The son returns to his mother if he is unsucceful in love and the mother sees in the hooting of the owls the omen of death to come. The player Yelele Lungu is one of two blind muscians in the Petauke district. Blind from birth he has developed an unusual degree of petic imagery. He had bever seen either the sun or the moon and his poetry consequently reflected a blind man's conception of natural phenomena. Unfortunately owing to technical difficulties both his recordings on this disc are poor, but his poetry warranted their inclusion. Love song, with Kalimba of 10 notes
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  • Date Issued: 1949

Zizwe

- Joseph Muzabantuu Zube, Ndebele Men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Zizwe

- Joseph Muzabantubuyabe, Ndebele Men, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Zizwe

- Joseph Muzabantuu Zube, Ndebele Men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1949

Ziriya (The stone trap)

- Saimoni Mashoka, Hugh Tracey

Ziriya

- Simon Mashoko, Performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Zingogo Kwela

- S. Linda's Original Evening Birds, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Zimbe Indawo

- Snowy Radebe and Company, performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Zimbamba zimba mbanguli

- Sukwa men and women at Mindolo Mine Compound, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Zikoli kumtu nkuti

- Chewa men and a Chewa woman, performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Zigawanenge

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

Zibula malembe

- Ngala men, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Zarura Zazura

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

Zarura Zarura

- School children from Mazungunye Boarding School, Jachi Shumba, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Zanzali nkemene kwa na chungabulula

- Liso, Edward, Tonga men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Zanzali nkemene kwa na Chungabuluba

- Tonga men at Lusaka, performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Zani muoni kayuni kana mategezela

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

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