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Obalemege

- Yosamu Kanagwa and Toro men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Yosamu Kanagwa and Toro men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kamukuzi f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170263 , vital:41875 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-06
  • Description: This praise, which both begins and ends with song, are frequently recited by men at parties. The subject of their adulation may be their host, their cattle or any subject gratifying their senses. Adulation of elders is part of the sycophantic social system common to many tribes and especially cattle owners. The practise of interspersing spoken praises between song is also found among the Sotho of Basutoland. The word Engabo means literally a brave man and these praises were originally intended to praise fighting men. Nowadays woth no fighting to be done the praises have been extended to any gratification and particularly of the 'Pombe' banana beer. Engabo praise, with conical drum. laced, single, played with hands and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kyebambi

- Yohana Nyakayonga, and Ntimbo Royal drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Yohana Nyakayonga, and Ntimbo Royal drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kikali f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169706 , vital:41790 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-11
  • Description: The little drums, with membranes of iguana, water lizard, skin are most musical and respond to every finesse of fingering. The are traditionally associated with the royal songs of Bunyoro. This song refers to a previous Mukama of Bunyoro, Kyebambi, who, they say, was much loved by his people. Rukidi wa Mukama about 20 years ago, (1930) and he was followed by Kyebambi, they said. Ntimbo praise song with four Ntimbo Goblet drums, pinned, open, ling stem and small foot. For holding under the arm (not for standing).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Rukidi

- Yohana Nyakayonga, and Ntimbo Royal drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Yohana Nyakayonga, and Ntimbo Royal drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kikali f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169693 , vital:41789 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-10
  • Description: The greater African chiefs would, in the old days, always have their court musicians to perform special functions, one of which was to play early in the morning to waken the chief's household. This duty was performed in the past by the Ntimbo drummers of the Mukama of Bunyoro. "Our Mukama who speaks with the clouds the most learned and wise Mukama, who has been to England." Ntimbo praise song with four Ntimbo Goblet drums, pinned, open, ling stem and small foot. For holding under the arm (not for standing).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Okuturukya Omukama

- Yohana Nyakayonga with Ntimbo Royal drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Yohana Nyakayonga with Ntimbo Royal drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169784 , vital:41823 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-03
  • Description: Tunes, like the bosun's piping in the navy, which drum and pipe the Mukama as he leaves his Kikale (house) to go his rounds or visit the Council Chamber or court. The Nsegu pipes are made in two sections and joined together by binding with hide, or iguana skin which is shrunk or bound onto the two halves. Way of 'piping' the Mukama with four Ntimbo drums, footed, pinned, open, and Nsegu end blown vertical flutes.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ntimbo, Kwebembera Omukama

- Yohana Nyakayonga with Ntimbo Royal drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Yohana Nyakayonga with Ntimbo Royal drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169793 , vital:41824 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-04
  • Description: Tunes, like the bosun's piping in the navy, which drum and pipe the Mukama as he leaves his Kikale (house) to go his rounds or visit the Council Chamber or court. The Nsegu pipes are made in two sections and joined together by binding with hide, or iguana skin which is shrunk or bound onto the two halves. Way of 'piping' the Mukama with four Ntimbo drums, footed, pinned, open, and Nsegu end blown vertical flutes.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ilemere abagorra nsonga ilemere

- Yohana Byabachwezi with Toro men, Hugh Tracey

Orukobya

- Tito Manyuru and Nyoro men and women, Hugh Tracey

Kimbalaliki bwaki umwene gwanu nyoile

- Tigalyoma Tiwesobwa with Zinza women, Hugh Tracey

Mkazi wa musaiza talya mugobe

- Tigalyoma Tiwesobwa with Zinza women, Hugh Tracey

Kaheru

- Tibamwenda with Toro men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tibamwenda with Toro men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bukuku f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170382 , vital:41915 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-02
  • Description: Kaheru was well known in the Bulahya district, all the more so because he was the unfortunate person who was injured by stones during blasting operations when the road to Bwamba was being constructed. Everyone was sad about it as Kaheru was a specially good dancer of Mateguru. Mateguru dance song for men and women with Emugudu cylindrical drum, footed, pegged, one conical drum laced, single, played with hands.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Abagenyi baizire

- Stephen Kaholya and Nyoro men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Stephen Kaholya and Nyoro men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169747 , vital:41795 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-16
  • Description: "The visitors have arrived", a welcome to the visitors at a party. The Engwara horns are built up of sections of gourds bound together with plantain string and re-inforced longitudinally by lathes of bamboo. The are side blown and have a hole at the small end so as to produce two notes each. They vary in size from about 12 inches to approximately 36 inches. Engwara N'orunyege dance song for men, with Engwara side blown horns, Ebinyege rattles and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kotabijuba

- Stephen Kaholya and Nyoro men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Stephen Kaholya and Nyoro men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169742 , vital:41794 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-15
  • Description: The subjects of these short dance songs, such as this, they say, may be lazy people who do not weed their gardens or banana plantations or those who drink too much banana beer. The eight horn blowers stand in a row with the women opposite them while the dancers strut in between. The Engwara horns are built up of sections of gourds bound together with plantain string and re-inforced longitudinally by lathes of bamboo. The are side blown and have a hole at the small end so as to produce two notes each. They vary in size from about 12 inches to approximately 36 inches. Engwara N'orunyege dance song for men, with Engwara side blown horns, Ebinyege rattles and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kyamukuku

- Sergent Joseph Musisi and Bamba men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Sergent Joseph Musisi and Bamba men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bundibugyo f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170452 , vital:41924 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-08
  • Description: "Who has the authority in this place?" "After the white man comes the Chief and after the Chief it is the Sergent who has the authority." This song was perfomed by two convicts from the local prison let out for the occasion. They were accomapanied by the Sergent in charge of the prison who sang jovially with his arms around his wards shoulders. Humorous song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Eky’evugo Ky’obumanzi

- Samuiri Rwomushana and his friend, Hugh Tracey

Igumira obuyatabara Ruanda

- Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170083 , vital:41855 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-13
  • Description: Igumira was a local chief who used to go over into Rwanda and raid tribes there, the Tutsi and the Hutu. The song is now used for dancing the Ekitagururo dance in which mena nd women do a simple rhythmic shuffle with rattles attached to their calves. The rattles are flat containers made of stout grasses inside which wild canna seeds are thrown to and fro. They are held flat between the palms while the fingers may tap the lower side to enhance the main pulses or to syncopate the rhythm. Ekitagururo dance song, with conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, and three earthenware pots and raft rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Igumira obuyatabara Ruanda

- Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170074 , vital:41856 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-13
  • Description: Igumira was a local chief who used to go over into Rwanda and raid tribes there, the Tutsi and the Hutu. The song is now used for dancing the Ekitagururo dance in which mena nd women do a simple rhythmic shuffle with rattles attached to their calves. The rattles are flat containers made of stout grasses inside which wild canna seeds are thrown to and fro. They are held flat between the palms while the fingers may tap the lower side to enhance the main pulses or to syncopate the rhythm. Ekitagururo dance song, with conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, and three earthenware pots and raft rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nyamwanga obuyaza Buganda

- Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170092 , vital:41857 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-14
  • Description: Nyamwanga was a Hima king of Ankole who used to raid the Ganda people of the lake districts before 1890 when the English took over the Protectorate. The rattles are flat containers made of stout grasses inside which wild canna seeds are thrown to and fro. They are held flat between the palms while the fingers may tap the lower side to enhance the main pulses or to syncopate the rhythm. Ekitagururo dance song, with conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, and three earthenware pots and raft rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Abagungu

- Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169914 , vital:41838 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-17
  • Description: The Bagungu people are fishermen and live near the eastern shore of Lake Albert. They are renowned for their cheerful rhythmic dancing with leg rattles. The water lizard skin membranes of their drums make for high quality drumming and clear finger work. The 'Legevans' or iguana are found near the lake shore, they say. Orunyege dance song for men and women with Ebinyege leg rattles and Goblet drum long stem pegged open.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nzaireki akatera empihi

- Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169934 , vital:41840 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-18
  • Description: Nzaireki is held up to ridicule for being a glutton. He ate far too much and was sick all night. Enough, in Bunyoro, as elsewhere, is as good as a feast. The drum and rattles perform in a rhythm typical of much of Bantu Africa. Orunyege dance song for men and women with Ebinyege leg rattles and Goblet drum long stem pegged open.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nzaireki akatera empihi

- Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169925 , vital:41839 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-18
  • Description: Nzaireki is held up to ridicule for being a glutton. He ate far too much and was sick all night. Enough, in Bunyoro, as elsewhere, is as good as a feast. The drum and rattles perform in a rhythm typical of much of Bantu Africa. Orunyege dance song for men and women with Ebinyege leg rattles and Goblet drum long stem pegged open.
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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