Zali mbogo zali nkanga
- 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/10962/170272 , vital:41876 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-07
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- 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/10962/170272 , vital:41876 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-07
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ilemere abagorra nsonga ilemere
- Yohana Byabachwezi with Toro men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Yohana Byabachwezi 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/10962/170426 , vital:41921 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-07
- Description: Topical songs of this nature are sung at parties and weddings, with local subject matter such as their cattle and their crops. The style of singing would appear to be Hima rather than Bantu. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Yohana Byabachwezi 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/10962/170426 , vital:41921 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-07
- Description: Topical songs of this nature are sung at parties and weddings, with local subject matter such as their cattle and their crops. The style of singing would appear to be Hima rather than Bantu. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Eky’evugo Ky’obumanzi
- Samuiri Rwomushana and his friend, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Samuiri Rwomushana and his friend , 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/10962/170239 , vital:41873 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-04
- Description: This kind of praise chant was recited to the Chief before the men went off on a raiding party, attacking other parts of their own tribe. This was before the English came in 1890. These chants have never been used in anger in living memory with a few, if any exceptions. Praise chant.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Samuiri Rwomushana and his friend , 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/10962/170239 , vital:41873 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-04
- Description: This kind of praise chant was recited to the Chief before the men went off on a raiding party, attacking other parts of their own tribe. This was before the English came in 1890. These chants have never been used in anger in living memory with a few, if any exceptions. Praise chant.
- Full Text: false
- 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/10962/170083 , 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Mutitira (Happiness)
- S. Ruhume, Akiki with Toro men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: S. Ruhume, Akiki 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/10962/170373 , vital:41914 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-01
- Description: "The bird has seen its friend, that is why it is happy." This means that the host at the party is happy with his friends. The Mateguru dance is frequently performed at drinking parties. The song makes a very jolly round. Mateguru dance song for men and women with Emugudu cylindrical drum, footed, pegged, one conical drum laced, single, played with hands.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: S. Ruhume, Akiki 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/10962/170373 , vital:41914 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-01
- Description: "The bird has seen its friend, that is why it is happy." This means that the host at the party is happy with his friends. The Mateguru dance is frequently performed at drinking parties. The song makes a very jolly round. Mateguru dance song for men and women with Emugudu cylindrical drum, footed, pegged, one conical drum laced, single, played with hands.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Entoro y’omuhogo
- Rusania with Nkole men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Rusania with Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kamakuzi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170104 , vital:41859 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-15
- Description: This song recalls the beauty of the Ankole countryside where they wander over the downs, a nomadic people, herding their cattle and living like the Masai on blood and milk. The style of singing would appear to be more Hima than Bantu. Nostalgic song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Rusania with Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kamakuzi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170104 , vital:41859 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-15
- Description: This song recalls the beauty of the Ankole countryside where they wander over the downs, a nomadic people, herding their cattle and living like the Masai on blood and milk. The style of singing would appear to be more Hima than Bantu. Nostalgic song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Obw’omugabe Gasyonga II yagwara ekirunga
- Rusania and Nkole, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Rusania and Nkole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbarara f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169979 , vital:41844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-03
- Description: Song sung at the installation of the present (1950) Mugabe as head of all the Ankole. Mugabe Gasyonga II. The manner in which this song is sung gives impression that both the style and the words belong to an era of Hima conquest, when the Nkole first came from the north. Installation of a Chief.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Rusania and Nkole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbarara f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169979 , vital:41844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-03
- Description: Song sung at the installation of the present (1950) Mugabe as head of all the Ankole. Mugabe Gasyonga II. The manner in which this song is sung gives impression that both the style and the words belong to an era of Hima conquest, when the Nkole first came from the north. Installation of a Chief.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Eky’evugo Ky’okwema kwa Omugaba Gasyonga II
- Authors: Rusania , 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/10962/170196 , vital:41869 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-01
- Description: Recitation of praises in honour of the Mugabi, paramount chief og King of Ankole. Praise chant.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Rusania , 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/10962/170196 , vital:41869 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-01
- Description: Recitation of praises in honour of the Mugabi, paramount chief og King of Ankole. Praise chant.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ekigano kya Miyanda
- Authors: Rusania , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Rubirizi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170299 , vital:41880 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-10
- Description: The first story is about a man who was born and grew up inside a hard stonelike skin. It was not until a beautiful girl agreed to marry him that his stoney casing fell away. Story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Rusania , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Rubirizi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170299 , vital:41880 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-10
- Description: The first story is about a man who was born and grew up inside a hard stonelike skin. It was not until a beautiful girl agreed to marry him that his stoney casing fell away. Story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Owangye n’omunyoro omu Kongo
- Razaro Begumiza and Nkole men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Razaro Begumiza 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 Mbarara f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170020 , vital:41849 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-07
- Description: The song is about the girl as beautiful as a Congo girl. Entogoro dance song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Razaro Begumiza 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 Mbarara f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170020 , vital:41849 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-07
- Description: The song is about the girl as beautiful as a Congo girl. Entogoro dance song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ndamukiza aba Kayanga
- Razaro Begumiza and Nkole men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Razaro Begumiza 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 Mbarara f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170011 , vital:41848 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-06
- Description: The singer had a girl ay Kayanga, whom he wanted to marry. He sings about her beauty. Entogoro dance song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Razaro Begumiza 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 Mbarara f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170011 , vital:41848 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-06
- Description: The singer had a girl ay Kayanga, whom he wanted to marry. He sings about her beauty. Entogoro dance song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Bwasemera obugenyi bwamunywami wange
- Paulo Rwavwogo with Toro men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Paulo Rwavwogo 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/10962/170418 , vital:41919 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-06
- Description: Topical songs of this nature are sung at parties and weddings, with local subject matter such as their cattle and their crops. The style of singing would appear to be Hima rather than Bantu. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Paulo Rwavwogo 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/10962/170418 , vital:41919 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-06
- Description: Topical songs of this nature are sung at parties and weddings, with local subject matter such as their cattle and their crops. The style of singing would appear to be Hima rather than Bantu. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ente za Kanyororo Abateza
- Authors: Nyamukuru , 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/10962/170216 , vital:41870 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-02
- Description: In praise of Kanyororo's cattle, of which he was the herdsman. The herd was called "Abateza", and because it was so strinkingly beautiful to the beholder it would make him shade his eyes and stumble away after looking at them. Praise chant.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Nyamukuru , 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/10962/170216 , vital:41870 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-02
- Description: In praise of Kanyororo's cattle, of which he was the herdsman. The herd was called "Abateza", and because it was so strinkingly beautiful to the beholder it would make him shade his eyes and stumble away after looking at them. Praise chant.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Omubanda
- Matesaiwe and Nkole men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Matesaiwe 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/10962/170117 , vital:41860 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-16
- Description: The flute (Omubanda. s. Emibanda. pl.) is a notched flute, end blown onto a V shaped notch cut into the end of the open pipe. There are four finger holes in two pairs. These flutes usually accompany the chief country dance the Ekitagururo, a very simple rhythm. The clay poys, which cannot be distinguished in this recording are played by striking the orifice of the pot with a flat beater made of banana frond or leaf. Emibanda flute duet, with two conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, three clay pots, (Enyungu), rattles and two end blown notched flutes (Emibanda).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Matesaiwe 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/10962/170117 , vital:41860 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-16
- Description: The flute (Omubanda. s. Emibanda. pl.) is a notched flute, end blown onto a V shaped notch cut into the end of the open pipe. There are four finger holes in two pairs. These flutes usually accompany the chief country dance the Ekitagururo, a very simple rhythm. The clay poys, which cannot be distinguished in this recording are played by striking the orifice of the pot with a flat beater made of banana frond or leaf. Emibanda flute duet, with two conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, three clay pots, (Enyungu), rattles and two end blown notched flutes (Emibanda).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Kahwahwe
- Martin Zomwe and Ruguru men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Martin Zomwe and Ruguru men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbarara f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170038 , vital:41851 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-09
- Description: The people of this district who call themselves Riguru came to the area as refugees from the Christian civil wars of the 1890's in Buganda. Ekizina dance song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Martin Zomwe and Ruguru men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbarara f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170038 , vital:41851 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-09
- Description: The people of this district who call themselves Riguru came to the area as refugees from the Christian civil wars of the 1890's in Buganda. Ekizina dance song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950