Lupunga
- Kayoka Ladislas with Kankolongo Alidor, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kayoka Ladislas with Kankolongo Alidor , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kandakanda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182588 , vital:43844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-12
- Description: Lupungu is the Chief of the Sankua district. The higher instrument is called Chisanzhi tendo and the other, an octave lower is Chisanzhi chinene. Instrumental pieces, with two Chisanzhi Likembe
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- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Kayoka Ladislas with Kankolongo Alidor , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kandakanda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182588 , vital:43844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-12
- Description: Lupungu is the Chief of the Sankua district. The higher instrument is called Chisanzhi tendo and the other, an octave lower is Chisanzhi chinene. Instrumental pieces, with two Chisanzhi Likembe
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Katela III
- Kasai men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kasai men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kasai f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181964 , vital:43785 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-06
- Description: This song and the accompanying dance is performed when there is a death in the village. Katela is the generic name of this type of dance song. A number of clapping rhythms occur in these songs including:- //1, 2, 3, ; 5, ; 7, ,//. Katela funeral dance with 2 drums, conical, pegged, single, open
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Kasai men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kasai f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181964 , vital:43785 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-06
- Description: This song and the accompanying dance is performed when there is a death in the village. Katela is the generic name of this type of dance song. A number of clapping rhythms occur in these songs including:- //1, 2, 3, ; 5, ; 7, ,//. Katela funeral dance with 2 drums, conical, pegged, single, open
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- Date Issued: 1952
Ambila baBemba na baLamba
- Group of Lulua soilders and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Lulua soilders and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Luluabourg f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182200 , vital:43809 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-03
- Description: "Go! Bemba and Lamba people of the Copper Belt." The musical formula for the songs which accompany the Marings dance can be clearly distinguished in this recording. The dance itself was not witnessed at the time of recording.Maringa dance with Chisanzhi Mbira, two pairs of rattles, basket rattle, singing gourd bottle and clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Group of Lulua soilders and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Luluabourg f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182200 , vital:43809 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-03
- Description: "Go! Bemba and Lamba people of the Copper Belt." The musical formula for the songs which accompany the Marings dance can be clearly distinguished in this recording. The dance itself was not witnessed at the time of recording.Maringa dance with Chisanzhi Mbira, two pairs of rattles, basket rattle, singing gourd bottle and clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mbanda wa Sikinta
- Gibson Zenzi with Luunda men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Gibson Zenzi with Luunda men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182886 , vital:43889 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-03
- Description: "The woman of the Sikinta." The Sinkinta dance is said to be the favourite Luunda dance of the present day (1952). This set of Sikinta dance tunes was recorded by young Luunda men who were working on the Roan Antelope Copper Mine. Four Sikinta dance song with struck bottles
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- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Gibson Zenzi with Luunda men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182886 , vital:43889 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-03
- Description: "The woman of the Sikinta." The Sinkinta dance is said to be the favourite Luunda dance of the present day (1952). This set of Sikinta dance tunes was recorded by young Luunda men who were working on the Roan Antelope Copper Mine. Four Sikinta dance song with struck bottles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mwanami waya mwiyawu
- Gibson Zenzi with Luunda men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Gibson Zenzi with Luunda men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182868 , vital:43887 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-01
- Description: "The child lost in the forest." In this part of Africa the whole countryside is covered with thick bush and trees up to 40 or 50 feet high. It would be particularly easy to lose oneself in this endless bush. Four Sikinta dance song with struck bottles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Gibson Zenzi with Luunda men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182868 , vital:43887 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-01
- Description: "The child lost in the forest." In this part of Africa the whole countryside is covered with thick bush and trees up to 40 or 50 feet high. It would be particularly easy to lose oneself in this endless bush. Four Sikinta dance song with struck bottles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Eyi mwana kaloto
- French Chikunji and Luunda men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: French Chikunji and Luunda men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182940 , vital:43895 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-09
- Description: There was once a man, they say, who broke his cup when drinking tea. This folly was sufficiently serious to merit a song. The singers were employed on the Mufulira Copper Mine where this item was recorded. Topical song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: French Chikunji and Luunda men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182940 , vital:43895 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-09
- Description: There was once a man, they say, who broke his cup when drinking tea. This folly was sufficiently serious to merit a song. The singers were employed on the Mufulira Copper Mine where this item was recorded. Topical song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Tutole kantu panshi
- Children of the Mindola African school, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Children of the Mindola African school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182900 , vital:43891 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-05
- Description: Song used in the olden days when taking the Chief about by canoe. Canoe song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Children of the Mindola African school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182900 , vital:43891 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-05
- Description: Song used in the olden days when taking the Chief about by canoe. Canoe song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Fila II
- Group of Luba Men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Luba Men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Lubangule f-cg
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182974 , vital:43899 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-13
- Description: These funeral songs are sung to cheer themselves up, but can also be sung at any time, they said. "While we sing we think of our own village." Recorded at the Kipushi Mine, Katanga. Fila dance song with 4 goblet drums and struck bottle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Group of Luba Men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Lubangule f-cg
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182974 , vital:43899 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-13
- Description: These funeral songs are sung to cheer themselves up, but can also be sung at any time, they said. "While we sing we think of our own village." Recorded at the Kipushi Mine, Katanga. Fila dance song with 4 goblet drums and struck bottle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mwakadima wamibushiba
- Kayoka Ladislaus, with Kapungo Isidore and Beya Marcel (Likembe players), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kayoka Ladislaus, with Kapungo Isidore and Beya Marcel (Likembe players) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kandakanda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182060 , vital:43794 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-13
- Description: "The mother of Kadima was staying in the village of Lushiba. Early one morning she was walking along the road nearby when a car came up from behind, knocked her down and killed her." The history of a true incident. Topical song, with 2 Likembe mbira and wooden clapper (-12.02-)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Kayoka Ladislaus, with Kapungo Isidore and Beya Marcel (Likembe players) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kandakanda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182060 , vital:43794 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-13
- Description: "The mother of Kadima was staying in the village of Lushiba. Early one morning she was walking along the road nearby when a car came up from behind, knocked her down and killed her." The history of a true incident. Topical song, with 2 Likembe mbira and wooden clapper (-12.02-)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Ketu hunyinga
- Group of Luba men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinkondje f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181986 , vital:43787 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-08
- Description: The four drummers were the chief singers together with their women. Malimba 2 xylophones, on frames without resonators.. 3 goblet drums, once called Itumba and the others Mutumbwe. The Itumba drum was a closed drum with a mirliton fixed into its side, 20" high and with 12 1/2" membrane. The Mutumbwe drums were both weighted with paste to lower their pitch, and had similar mirlitons. The large slit drum, Kunri, was insulated from the ground as it had no legs. In this respect the slit drums behave physically like a xylophone note and must be supported at the two nodes or they will not sound properly. Budye dance, with 2 xylophones, 3 conical drums and 1 slit drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Group of Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinkondje f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181986 , vital:43787 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-08
- Description: The four drummers were the chief singers together with their women. Malimba 2 xylophones, on frames without resonators.. 3 goblet drums, once called Itumba and the others Mutumbwe. The Itumba drum was a closed drum with a mirliton fixed into its side, 20" high and with 12 1/2" membrane. The Mutumbwe drums were both weighted with paste to lower their pitch, and had similar mirlitons. The large slit drum, Kunri, was insulated from the ground as it had no legs. In this respect the slit drums behave physically like a xylophone note and must be supported at the two nodes or they will not sound properly. Budye dance, with 2 xylophones, 3 conical drums and 1 slit drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kia Mwangala kia yanamatumbe
- Group of 12 Luba men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of 12 Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kolwezi f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183958 , vital:44089 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-09
- Description: Drums. Kayanda - conical, open, pegged and weighted (-14.2-). Mitumbwe - goblet, pinned, closed and weighted (-14.52-). Ditumba - goblet, pinned, closed, mirliton (-14.51251-). The drums enter one after the other and end in the same way. The difference in tone between the weighted and the unweighted membranes of the drums can be clearly heard - the weighted drums being both lower in tone and also emitting a slightly slurred or portamento tone, while the unweighted drum sounds a clear hollow note. Katendo dance, with 2 Goblet drums, pegged, closed and hand beaten, and 1 conical drum, pegged, open, and hand beaten
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Group of 12 Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kolwezi f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183958 , vital:44089 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-09
- Description: Drums. Kayanda - conical, open, pegged and weighted (-14.2-). Mitumbwe - goblet, pinned, closed and weighted (-14.52-). Ditumba - goblet, pinned, closed, mirliton (-14.51251-). The drums enter one after the other and end in the same way. The difference in tone between the weighted and the unweighted membranes of the drums can be clearly heard - the weighted drums being both lower in tone and also emitting a slightly slurred or portamento tone, while the unweighted drum sounds a clear hollow note. Katendo dance, with 2 Goblet drums, pegged, closed and hand beaten, and 1 conical drum, pegged, open, and hand beaten
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Malemba
- Authors: Mukoko Michel , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kabinda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181977 , vital:43786 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-07
- Description: The mirliton of this instrument was broken. The scale may be Hexatonic. The Kalebwe clan are reported to have aggressive tendencies. A complex interplay of several rhythms with the Chisazhi acting as a gourd, although once the singers get going the sound of the instrument is lost. The clapping appears to follow the same basic rhythm found all over Southern Congo, in which a measure of sixteen pulses is accented as follows:- //1, 3, 5, 7, /, 10, 12, 14, , // or more usually // 1, 3, 5, 78, 10, 12, 14, 15, //. In this part of Africa the leader often starts and stops his men by the cry "A,,,r,r,r,r." Malemba song after funeral with Chisazhi Likembe
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Mukoko Michel , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kabinda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181977 , vital:43786 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-07
- Description: The mirliton of this instrument was broken. The scale may be Hexatonic. The Kalebwe clan are reported to have aggressive tendencies. A complex interplay of several rhythms with the Chisazhi acting as a gourd, although once the singers get going the sound of the instrument is lost. The clapping appears to follow the same basic rhythm found all over Southern Congo, in which a measure of sixteen pulses is accented as follows:- //1, 3, 5, 7, /, 10, 12, 14, , // or more usually // 1, 3, 5, 78, 10, 12, 14, 15, //. In this part of Africa the leader often starts and stops his men by the cry "A,,,r,r,r,r." Malemba song after funeral with Chisazhi Likembe
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kufidi mpara bituta
- Eresina and Kasai women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Eresina and Kasai women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kasai f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181937 , vital:43782 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-03
- Description: The clapping rhythm is the same as in the previous item. "Do not be afraid of an angry face." Drinking song with two singing gourds.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Eresina and Kasai women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kasai f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181937 , vital:43782 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-03
- Description: The clapping rhythm is the same as in the previous item. "Do not be afraid of an angry face." Drinking song with two singing gourds.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Katela II
- Kasai men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kasai men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kasai f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181959 , vital:43784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-05
- Description: This song and the accompanying dance is performed when there is a death in the village. Katela is the generic name of this type of dance song. A number of clapping rhythms occur in these songs including:- //1, ; ; 4, ; 6, ; 7, ,//. Katela funeral dance with 2 drums, conical, pegged, single, open
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Kasai men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kasai f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181959 , vital:43784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-05
- Description: This song and the accompanying dance is performed when there is a death in the village. Katela is the generic name of this type of dance song. A number of clapping rhythms occur in these songs including:- //1, ; ; 4, ; 6, ; 7, ,//. Katela funeral dance with 2 drums, conical, pegged, single, open
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kanenga
- Authors: Louis Mulowa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182985 , vital:43900 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-14
- Description: A player was sorry when his friend finished his food so he sat down to sing to his Chisanzhi Mbira. It is not easy to understand the relationships between the pitch of the instrument and the pitch of the players voice. It appears to be consistant and must therefore bear some relationship in his mind. The scale of his Chisanzhi was:- 424, 380, 344, 304, 280, 266, 232, 212 vs. The tips of the players fingers were constantly moist and sticky and he kept a supply of dry sand beside him to rub on his finger tips before playing. Personal laments, with Chizanzhi Mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Louis Mulowa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182985 , vital:43900 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-14
- Description: A player was sorry when his friend finished his food so he sat down to sing to his Chisanzhi Mbira. It is not easy to understand the relationships between the pitch of the instrument and the pitch of the players voice. It appears to be consistant and must therefore bear some relationship in his mind. The scale of his Chisanzhi was:- 424, 380, 344, 304, 280, 266, 232, 212 vs. The tips of the players fingers were constantly moist and sticky and he kept a supply of dry sand beside him to rub on his finger tips before playing. Personal laments, with Chizanzhi Mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Tuimba nyundo tuimbo tuwelela
- Group of 12 Luba men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of 12 Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kolwezi f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183950 , vital:44087 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-08
- Description: Drums. Kayanda - conical, open, pegged and weighted (-14.2-). Mitumbwe - goblet, pinned, closed and weighted (-14.52-). Ditumba - goblet, pinned, closed, mirliton (-14.51251-). The drums enter one after the other and end in the same way. The difference in tone between the weighted and the unweighted membranes of the drums can be clearly heard - the weighted drums being both lower in tone and also emitting a slightly slurred or portamento tone, while the unweighted drum sounds a clear hollow note. Katendo dance, with 2 Goblet drums, pegged, closed and hand beaten, and 1 conical drum, pegged, open, and hand beaten
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Group of 12 Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kolwezi f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183950 , vital:44087 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-08
- Description: Drums. Kayanda - conical, open, pegged and weighted (-14.2-). Mitumbwe - goblet, pinned, closed and weighted (-14.52-). Ditumba - goblet, pinned, closed, mirliton (-14.51251-). The drums enter one after the other and end in the same way. The difference in tone between the weighted and the unweighted membranes of the drums can be clearly heard - the weighted drums being both lower in tone and also emitting a slightly slurred or portamento tone, while the unweighted drum sounds a clear hollow note. Katendo dance, with 2 Goblet drums, pegged, closed and hand beaten, and 1 conical drum, pegged, open, and hand beaten
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Bilumbu
- Luba/Hemba men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Luba/Hemba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kongolo f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183977 , vital:44104 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-11
- Description: The singers of this item had come north, down the Lualaba river ans were over 400 miles from their home in Kongolo, near the junction of the Lualaba with its tributory which drains the overflow flood waters from Lake Tanganyika. This simple repetitive song is similar to many others associated with divination - the repititions in themselves exercising a kind of hypnotic effect suited to teh occassion. Song and dance for herbalist or diviner, with 2 goblet drums, with mirlitons and closed, and rattles (-12.54-)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Luba/Hemba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kongolo f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183977 , vital:44104 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-11
- Description: The singers of this item had come north, down the Lualaba river ans were over 400 miles from their home in Kongolo, near the junction of the Lualaba with its tributory which drains the overflow flood waters from Lake Tanganyika. This simple repetitive song is similar to many others associated with divination - the repititions in themselves exercising a kind of hypnotic effect suited to teh occassion. Song and dance for herbalist or diviner, with 2 goblet drums, with mirlitons and closed, and rattles (-12.54-)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kabange
- Group of Luba men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinkondje f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181991 , vital:43788 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-09
- Description: The four drummers were the chief singers together with their women. Malimba 2 xylophones, on frames without resonators.. 3 goblet drums, once called Itumba and the others Mutumbwe. The Itumba drum was a closed drum with a mirliton fixed into its side, 20" high and with 12 1/2" membrane. The Mutumbwe drums were both weighted with paste to lower their pitch, and had similar mirlitons. The large slit drum, Kunri, was insulated from the ground as it had no legs. In this respect the slit drums behave physically like a xylophone note and must be supported at the two nodes or they will not sound properly. Budye dance, with 2 xylophones, 3 conical drums and 1 slit drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Group of Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinkondje f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181991 , vital:43788 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-09
- Description: The four drummers were the chief singers together with their women. Malimba 2 xylophones, on frames without resonators.. 3 goblet drums, once called Itumba and the others Mutumbwe. The Itumba drum was a closed drum with a mirliton fixed into its side, 20" high and with 12 1/2" membrane. The Mutumbwe drums were both weighted with paste to lower their pitch, and had similar mirlitons. The large slit drum, Kunri, was insulated from the ground as it had no legs. In this respect the slit drums behave physically like a xylophone note and must be supported at the two nodes or they will not sound properly. Budye dance, with 2 xylophones, 3 conical drums and 1 slit drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kalamba wa badya
- Kayoka Ladislas and group of Luba men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kayoka Ladislas and group of Luba men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kandakanda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182544 , vital:43839 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-09
- Description: All Mbira played by the Luba are called 'Chisanzhi' but a Chisanzhi was bass notes on the left instead of central is called Bilonda ba Bukabala. Tuning:- 488, 440, 364, 320, 284, 268, 244 vs. Topical song with Chisanzhi Mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Kayoka Ladislas and group of Luba men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kandakanda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182544 , vital:43839 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-09
- Description: All Mbira played by the Luba are called 'Chisanzhi' but a Chisanzhi was bass notes on the left instead of central is called Bilonda ba Bukabala. Tuning:- 488, 440, 364, 320, 284, 268, 244 vs. Topical song with Chisanzhi Mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Muzengalenge wetu munyine
- Group of Luba soilders, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Luba soilders , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Katanga f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182227 , vital:43812 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-06
- Description: This group of men were all members of the military band at Elizabethville. In spite of their daily playing of European instruments they fall naturally back into their native modes as soon as they sing as a tribal group. Madings dance with drum, bottle, and sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Group of Luba soilders , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Katanga f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182227 , vital:43812 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-06
- Description: This group of men were all members of the military band at Elizabethville. In spite of their daily playing of European instruments they fall naturally back into their native modes as soon as they sing as a tribal group. Madings dance with drum, bottle, and sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952