Chomusikana Mandega I (The Girl, Mandega)
- Boys of Domboshawa Government School, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Boys of Domboshawa Government School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180275 , vital:43348 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-01
- Description: Physical training at this school was done to the accompaniment of several well known folk songs. The team of boys was supplied with dumbells made of blue gum wood which they clap together. The drummer and song leader stand in front of the clas setting the pace. The whole is converted into a kind of dance routine. Physical training song, with Mutumba drums and dumbbells.
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- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Boys of Domboshawa Government School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180275 , vital:43348 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-01
- Description: Physical training at this school was done to the accompaniment of several well known folk songs. The team of boys was supplied with dumbells made of blue gum wood which they clap together. The drummer and song leader stand in front of the clas setting the pace. The whole is converted into a kind of dance routine. Physical training song, with Mutumba drums and dumbbells.
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- Date Issued: 1949
Ziriya (The stone trap)
- Saimoni Mashoka, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Saimoni Mashoka , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Buhera f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180203 , vital:43332 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-09
- Description: A dance tune associated with the Mashawi souls ritual which forms an important part of the spiritual concepts of the tribe. Song for Mashawi dance, with 29 note Njari (Mbira).
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- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Saimoni Mashoka , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Buhera f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180203 , vital:43332 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-09
- Description: A dance tune associated with the Mashawi souls ritual which forms an important part of the spiritual concepts of the tribe. Song for Mashawi dance, with 29 note Njari (Mbira).
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- Date Issued: 1949
Iranga rachona
- Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180176 , vital:43329 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-06
- Description: This is the Njari version of the famous "Ilanga la Shona" which became so popular when first sung in Bulawayo in about 1946. Several versions in different languages have appeared since then. The original was sung to the guitar and this setting to the traditional instrument is particularly interesting. The Karanga or 'Shona', as opposed to the Nguni speaking Ndebele of the South west of the country, do not use the letter 'L' but change it to 'R'. Topical song ith Njari (Mbira).
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- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180176 , vital:43329 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-06
- Description: This is the Njari version of the famous "Ilanga la Shona" which became so popular when first sung in Bulawayo in about 1946. Several versions in different languages have appeared since then. The original was sung to the guitar and this setting to the traditional instrument is particularly interesting. The Karanga or 'Shona', as opposed to the Nguni speaking Ndebele of the South west of the country, do not use the letter 'L' but change it to 'R'. Topical song ith Njari (Mbira).
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- Date Issued: 1949
Chimwanikoda
- Munthuanengwi Muhlanga, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Munthuanengwi Muhlanga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Gwelo f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180348 , vital:43355 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-04
- Description: An unusual musical bow on account of the use of a bridge ith which to divide the string into two segements and convey the sound direct to a small drum like resonator attached to the bow near its center. This simple little bow is played with an ox-tail bow near the point of stress. A thin stick is inserted between the gourd's membrane and the wire, conveying the sound down to the resonator and also dividing the single string into two unequal segments. The player stops the shorter of the two, thus producing the fundamental note on the longer segment and two or three notes on the shorter. It is perhaps strange to think that this product could prove entertaining and satisfactory to the performer. Self delectative song, with Chimwanikoda bowed musical bow, braced.
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- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Munthuanengwi Muhlanga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Gwelo f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180348 , vital:43355 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-04
- Description: An unusual musical bow on account of the use of a bridge ith which to divide the string into two segements and convey the sound direct to a small drum like resonator attached to the bow near its center. This simple little bow is played with an ox-tail bow near the point of stress. A thin stick is inserted between the gourd's membrane and the wire, conveying the sound down to the resonator and also dividing the single string into two unequal segments. The player stops the shorter of the two, thus producing the fundamental note on the longer segment and two or three notes on the shorter. It is perhaps strange to think that this product could prove entertaining and satisfactory to the performer. Self delectative song, with Chimwanikoda bowed musical bow, braced.
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- Date Issued: 1949
Andisaguta (I am not full)
- Zazi with Karanga women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Zazi with Karanga women , 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/10962/180529 , vital:43398 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-11
- Description: "I am not yet full, I have not yet had enough. But when I am full, then I will hit those women over there." A song sung in jest. Drinking song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Zazi with Karanga women , 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/10962/180529 , vital:43398 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-11
- Description: "I am not yet full, I have not yet had enough. But when I am full, then I will hit those women over there." A song sung in jest. Drinking song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1949
Musengu
- Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180141 , vital:43324 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-03
- Description: The spirit complex which goes by the name Mondoro or Lion spirit is a central belief in the ethics of the Karanga people. This song is here played by a gifted young musician who plays his instruments in the traditional style. Do not argue child, it is forbidden. And you will be sorry for it. Ha, my son-in-law, it makes you feel good (?) The way you dance makes the earth turn over. Song for the Mondoro Spirits with Njari.
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- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180141 , vital:43324 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-03
- Description: The spirit complex which goes by the name Mondoro or Lion spirit is a central belief in the ethics of the Karanga people. This song is here played by a gifted young musician who plays his instruments in the traditional style. Do not argue child, it is forbidden. And you will be sorry for it. Ha, my son-in-law, it makes you feel good (?) The way you dance makes the earth turn over. Song for the Mondoro Spirits with Njari.
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- Date Issued: 1949
Were
- Authors: Zaka Shawa , 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/10962/180372 , vital:43357 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-05
- Description: The Songano Souls (Mashawi) are the guardians of the parental instinct in both men and women. They are said to be the most important of all the souls. They represent the affection for children on the part of both parents. The traditional instrument with which to honour the Masongano souls in this part of panpipes of which there are very few left. The player, a very old man holds the panpipes in one hand and a gourd rattle in the other. This brief recording of less than half a minute's duration may be one of the best echoes of a faith which believed in the virtue of the sound of the panpipes as a devotional exercise. Tune for the Songano Mashawi with Mikwati Wenyere (Pan pipes) and Hosho (rattke).
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- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Zaka Shawa , 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/10962/180372 , vital:43357 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-05
- Description: The Songano Souls (Mashawi) are the guardians of the parental instinct in both men and women. They are said to be the most important of all the souls. They represent the affection for children on the part of both parents. The traditional instrument with which to honour the Masongano souls in this part of panpipes of which there are very few left. The player, a very old man holds the panpipes in one hand and a gourd rattle in the other. This brief recording of less than half a minute's duration may be one of the best echoes of a faith which believed in the virtue of the sound of the panpipes as a devotional exercise. Tune for the Songano Mashawi with Mikwati Wenyere (Pan pipes) and Hosho (rattke).
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- Date Issued: 1949
Tindi! Zaone
- Jeke Shoko with Duma men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Jeke Shoko with Duma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Bikita f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181434 , vital:43733 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR175-03
- Description: "Tindi! Come and see the eye on the ground. A certain man buried a drum underneath the path which several wild animals used to take on their way to eat his crops in the fields. As they walked over the place where the drum was buried it made an attractive sound as 'Tindi'. So the animals kept on walking over the spot calling to each other to try it out for themselves. In this way their attention was diverted from the main crops in the field. Three story for a story
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- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Jeke Shoko with Duma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Bikita f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181434 , vital:43733 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR175-03
- Description: "Tindi! Come and see the eye on the ground. A certain man buried a drum underneath the path which several wild animals used to take on their way to eat his crops in the fields. As they walked over the place where the drum was buried it made an attractive sound as 'Tindi'. So the animals kept on walking over the spot calling to each other to try it out for themselves. In this way their attention was diverted from the main crops in the field. Three story for a story
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- Date Issued: 1949
Shangara
- Manyoni Wanyamande and his wife, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande and his wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Gwelo f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180185 , vital:43330 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-07
- Description: Drinking song with Njari (Mbira)
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- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande and his wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Gwelo f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180185 , vital:43330 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-07
- Description: Drinking song with Njari (Mbira)
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- Date Issued: 1949
Ishe komborera Afrika (Prayer for Africa)
- Boys of Domboshawa Government School, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Boys of Domboshawa Government School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180299 , vital:43350 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-02
- Description: The local Zezuru version of the well known Xhosa anthem "Nkosi sikelele afrika" composed in 1897 in the Transkei by a teacher there. Prayer for Africa.
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- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Boys of Domboshawa Government School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180299 , vital:43350 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-02
- Description: The local Zezuru version of the well known Xhosa anthem "Nkosi sikelele afrika" composed in 1897 in the Transkei by a teacher there. Prayer for Africa.
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- Date Issued: 1949
Ndinosara nani (With whom shall I stay)
- Muroiwa Musobenzo, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Muroiwa Musobenzo , 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/10962/180403 , vital:43360 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-06
- Description: a) This tune in 5 time is very well known in the southern part of the country, and has been set to the Njari Mbira as well as the bow and was recorded by H. T. T. in 1933, sixteen years earlier. b) The player strained up his bow for the second tune. Both tunes were recorded with the microphone very near the performer's mouth in order to demonstrate the sound of the Chipedani as heard by the player himself. The mouthed harmonics can be clearly heard. Only those very nearby would in fact hear the bow clearly and the mouth harmonics. Self delectative songs, with Chipendani musical bow and Chimazambi friction bow.
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- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Muroiwa Musobenzo , 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/10962/180403 , vital:43360 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-06
- Description: a) This tune in 5 time is very well known in the southern part of the country, and has been set to the Njari Mbira as well as the bow and was recorded by H. T. T. in 1933, sixteen years earlier. b) The player strained up his bow for the second tune. Both tunes were recorded with the microphone very near the performer's mouth in order to demonstrate the sound of the Chipedani as heard by the player himself. The mouthed harmonics can be clearly heard. Only those very nearby would in fact hear the bow clearly and the mouth harmonics. Self delectative songs, with Chipendani musical bow and Chimazambi friction bow.
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- Date Issued: 1949
Baya, wa baya, ho-ha-ho!
- Jima Shumba with Duma men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Jima Shumba with Duma men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Bikita f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180556 , vital:43402 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-14
- Description: This song is known over the whole lenght and breadth of the Karanga country. It was first sung, they say, in the 19th century as a fighting song against the Ndebele under Mzilikatsi from the west and the Shangaans under Ngungunyana from the east. These two Ngoni tribes from Zululand met on the Mtilikwe River and decided to keep to their on side of the river raiding the villages on either hand. "Kuwerure" they cry, when two sides meet in battle. Fighting song.
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- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Jima Shumba with Duma men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Bikita f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180556 , vital:43402 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-14
- Description: This song is known over the whole lenght and breadth of the Karanga country. It was first sung, they say, in the 19th century as a fighting song against the Ndebele under Mzilikatsi from the west and the Shangaans under Ngungunyana from the east. These two Ngoni tribes from Zululand met on the Mtilikwe River and decided to keep to their on side of the river raiding the villages on either hand. "Kuwerure" they cry, when two sides meet in battle. Fighting song.
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- Date Issued: 1949
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
- 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
Ni panama pamulyano pa mambo
- 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/10962/184473 , vital:44226 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-09
- Description: This poetic song is one of the blind composers musings. Being blind he lives in a contemplative world of his own and expresses himself in unusually poetic manner. Mourning song with 10 note Kalimba
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- Date Issued: 1949
- 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/10962/184473 , vital:44226 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-09
- Description: This poetic song is one of the blind composers musings. Being blind he lives in a contemplative world of his own and expresses himself in unusually poetic manner. Mourning song with 10 note Kalimba
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- Date Issued: 1949
Muzazaranda
- Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180152 , vital:43327 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-04
- Description: Many of the best pieces of music in South Rhodesia are dedicated to the traditional belief in Mashawi souls. Muzazaranda is one of several songs which accompany this interesting ritual. Mashawi 'Souls' are not to be confused with the various spirits. The former are said to live in the chest of the individual, the latter's usual habitation is external. Girls you have looked at me. Do you know me? You boys, my name is "The cutter of gourds". Do you east grandmother's food, you boys. Under the plate there is something suspicious. Chikanga do not leave me when you go hunting. I want to see it hen you catch a 'duiker' (buck). My mother, ... my mother, has turned over. Has turned over the sun the moon! My mother's magic, it pleases me, it follows me wherever I go. That thing of my mother pleases. It came with four hyaenas. The fifth one ran off with the mouse. You, young person! Look, look you young person! Look, look at the girls! To you, you, you young person! To you, Chijaka, you Chijaka, you young person! Song for Mashawi souls with Njari (Mbira).
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- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180152 , vital:43327 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-04
- Description: Many of the best pieces of music in South Rhodesia are dedicated to the traditional belief in Mashawi souls. Muzazaranda is one of several songs which accompany this interesting ritual. Mashawi 'Souls' are not to be confused with the various spirits. The former are said to live in the chest of the individual, the latter's usual habitation is external. Girls you have looked at me. Do you know me? You boys, my name is "The cutter of gourds". Do you east grandmother's food, you boys. Under the plate there is something suspicious. Chikanga do not leave me when you go hunting. I want to see it hen you catch a 'duiker' (buck). My mother, ... my mother, has turned over. Has turned over the sun the moon! My mother's magic, it pleases me, it follows me wherever I go. That thing of my mother pleases. It came with four hyaenas. The fifth one ran off with the mouse. You, young person! Look, look you young person! Look, look at the girls! To you, you, you young person! To you, Chijaka, you Chijaka, you young person! Song for Mashawi souls with Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Mbiriwiri ya Mondoro
- Manyoni Wanyamande, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180222 , vital:43334 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-11
- Description: The name of this tune 'Mbiriwiri' has been associated with the playing of Mbira type instruments from time immemorial. In this case it is also connected with the spirit concept of the Mondoro or Lion spirit. The singer uses several quotations from older songs such as "Regai ndi baiwa ne banga chena, kufa kwandida." This is to be the prophet Chaminuka's last words when he was surrounded by Ndebele soilders who had come to kill him. They could not harm him and he died by being pierced in the armpit with a sharp knife held by a small boy. "Let me be stabbed by a bright knife, the death of my desiring." Song for Mashawi souls with Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180222 , vital:43334 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-11
- Description: The name of this tune 'Mbiriwiri' has been associated with the playing of Mbira type instruments from time immemorial. In this case it is also connected with the spirit concept of the Mondoro or Lion spirit. The singer uses several quotations from older songs such as "Regai ndi baiwa ne banga chena, kufa kwandida." This is to be the prophet Chaminuka's last words when he was surrounded by Ndebele soilders who had come to kill him. They could not harm him and he died by being pierced in the armpit with a sharp knife held by a small boy. "Let me be stabbed by a bright knife, the death of my desiring." Song for Mashawi souls with Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Masongano
- Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180167 , vital:43328 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-05
- Description: Of all the multiple souls, or Mashawi, with which each man and woman is blest, the Masangano or Parental souls are the most important. Continuity of the tribe is with most people a central belief and conviction. With the Karanga this is crystalized in the ritual of Masongano and of the Midzimu -the immediate dead. The Masongano are in the path. Mother, let me step over it. You, woman, when you are pregnant you are in the firplace, of that I am sure. When you eat pumpkins you must be uncomfortably full! Fair skinned women are thoughtless. Early in the morning they get up and go to the fireplace outside, you men. Short women are alert, and if I was asked about Zinembgwa, I would say it is a mature girl who cannot make fire. Leave your husband and let us dance. Anything that happens we will account for. What I have said is very little. Not enough to make you leave home! If women were eaten like meat, I would chose the rump steak. The rest of it I would throw to the dogs. Song for Mashawi souls with Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180167 , vital:43328 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-05
- Description: Of all the multiple souls, or Mashawi, with which each man and woman is blest, the Masangano or Parental souls are the most important. Continuity of the tribe is with most people a central belief and conviction. With the Karanga this is crystalized in the ritual of Masongano and of the Midzimu -the immediate dead. The Masongano are in the path. Mother, let me step over it. You, woman, when you are pregnant you are in the firplace, of that I am sure. When you eat pumpkins you must be uncomfortably full! Fair skinned women are thoughtless. Early in the morning they get up and go to the fireplace outside, you men. Short women are alert, and if I was asked about Zinembgwa, I would say it is a mature girl who cannot make fire. Leave your husband and let us dance. Anything that happens we will account for. What I have said is very little. Not enough to make you leave home! If women were eaten like meat, I would chose the rump steak. The rest of it I would throw to the dogs. Song for Mashawi souls with Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949