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Kemfumye shukurani mtemi mpya

- Masudi Bini Amani with Nyamwezi women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Masudi Bini Amani with Nyamwezi women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Itetemia f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173134 , vital:42336 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR149-03
  • Description: A song sung at the installation of Nyamwezi chiefs, wishing them happiness. Itetemia, the village where Chief Fundikira has his head-quaters, is the famous site of David Livinstone's tembe, the long, low, flat roofed house where he lived for a year, where he said goodbye to Stanley and from which he set out on his last jourbey to die near Lake Bangweulu. Song at the installation of Chiefs, with 3 conical laced drums beaten by sticks and 1 conical pegged drum beaten by hand.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kuchonga Wigasha (The sitting dance)

- Mwikuru Kija with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

Kwahere wasalenge

- Masudi Bini Amani with Nyamwezi men and women, Hugh Tracey

Kwaheri naja (Goodbye for now)

- Idi Selemani and Hashima Kamata with Nyamwezi men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Idi Selemani and Hashima Kamata with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173264 , vital:42351 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-03
  • Description: "Goodbye for now, I will be back soon." Several songs under this title "Kwaheri naja", are to be found in Tanganyika, but they do not necessarily have the same melody or follow the same pattern. The style of singing is typical of those away from home and differs materially from the same type of song sung at home. Hiyari ya moyo dance song for men for men and women, with cylindrical laced drums and conical pegged (-14.22101-) and ankle bells (-12.55-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kwaheri naja majumbani

- Idi Selemani with Nyamwezi men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Idi Selemani with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173029 , vital:42314 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-12
  • Description: "Goodbye, I am going home to see my love who will cook plenty for me." Nyahinga, they said, is known to be very good singer in Nyamwezi country. Idi Selemani, the leader 'lines' the verses to be sung by the chorus of his friends. The soloist, Idi is a well known and much beloved comedian in his own society of Nyamwezi people living in Dar-es-Salaam and is a joy to watch. His antics and feigned anger are masterly acting. The singer starts the third song with the familiar cry of the 2nd King's African Rifles, "Seken-Seken, K.A.R. Namba wantu. Humorous song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kwinga Lwanungu (Lwanungu left)

- Kono Ikhongorwa with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

Lalua Deleva

- Idi Selemani with Nyamwezi men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Idi Selemani with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173038 , vital:42315 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-13
  • Description: "Whenever I sing my people weep, my songs must be very good. My love you will find me on the dancing ground kicking up a lot of dust, dancing." Nyahinga, they said, is known to be very good singer in Nyamwezi country. Idi Selemani, the leader 'lines' the verses to be sung by the chorus of his friends. The soloist, Idi is a well known and much beloved comedian in his own society of Nyamwezi people living in Dar-es-Salaam and is a joy to watch. His antics and feigned anger are masterly acting. The singer starts the third song with the familiar cry of the 2nd King's African Rifles, "Seken-Seken, K.A.R. Namba wantu. Humorous song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Lemagino lukhanya (Refuse to obey)

- Kono Ikhongorwa with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

Lugendo ewa halaka (A hasty journey)

- Wachezaji wa Manyanga. Leader, Kasomangila Husen Ishike, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Wachezaji wa Manyanga. Leader, Kasomangila Husen Ishike , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Baraza Ndono f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173201 , vital:42344 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR149-10
  • Description: "A hasty journey! I hurt my toe, open the door for me, Mtandika Majembe." The Manyanga dance as performed by these singers is a troupe acrobatic dance in which the actions are controlled by a lead and certain set sequences performed. These require considerable skill to perform. Manyanga dance song for men, with 3 conical laced drums, 1 goblet pegged drum (-14.51101-) and anklet bells (-12.55-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Lyakulokela malaya heyakulo kela

- Mbilo Bundi with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

Lyalulumila lya Manyanga (I am the leader of the dance)

- Wachezaji wa Manyanga. Leader, Kasomangila Husen Ishike, Hugh Tracey

Manyanga

- Wachezaji wa Manyanga. Leader, Kasomangila Husen Ishike, Hugh Tracey

Manyanga drum rhythms I

- Husuni Isike, Salumu Athman, Ramadhani Khuluwa, Hugh Tracey

Manyanga drum rhythms II

- Husuni Isike, Salumu Athman, Ramadhani Khuluwa, Hugh Tracey

Masudi wakafa kwabolya (Masudi is dead, so now we will eat)

- Masudi Bini Amani with Nyamwezi men and women, Hugh Tracey

Milambi vumerinka

- Serina Mako with Hangaza women, Hugh Tracey

Mishia mpindi akamsanga

- Thungu Giti with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Thungu Giti with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shinyanga f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173531 , vital:42381 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-12
  • Description: "You have found me well prepared with my dance charms which will defeat you." The Sukuma are given to forming socities or parties for dancing and singing in competition with each other. The use of charms to help them win are frequently part of the procedure. If irrational i material principal these charms are undoubtedly efficient in concentrating mental effort in the desired direction. This item is an interesting example of lengthy recitative in unision or close parallel. Puba dance song for men and women.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mkhema ye (My love)

- Tatu Binti Juma with "Ngoma ya udi.", Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tatu Binti Juma with "Ngoma ya udi." , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Ngambo f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172878 , vital:42291 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-20
  • Description: This song shows an adaptation of Nyamwezi African words to an Arab foreign tune. The distortions of Bantu speech tones appear to be less pronounced than in similar adaptations of local words to European tunes. The Nyamwezi peoples were for centuries closely associated with Arab traders and were the carriers of their trade goods into the interior from Bagamoyo on the coast to the lake at Ujiji. They also acted as carriers for most of the famous East African explorers including Livingstone and Stanely. Love song, with one Udi, Arab guitar, one Mandoline and one Tambourine drum (-14.91-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mlakanile malanga

- Idi Selemani with Nyamwezi men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Idi Selemani with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173065 , vital:42318 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-16
  • Description: "Although you frighten me with your stick, I will fight you when you are drunk." Mwanza is about the furthest limit of his geopraphical knowledge and he would therefore follow her to 'the ends of the earth'. It is the lake port at the south of the Lake Victoria about four hundred miles from Dar-es-Salaam where this item was composed and sung. The soloist, Idi, is a never ending source of enjoyment to his friends with a perfect set of mine gestures with which to illustrate the words he sings. Selemani's speech is a liberal mixture of Nyamwezi and Swahili. He leads these lively songs sung by a very lively company of Nyamwezi singers who bring out many surprises during their amusing performances. Humorous song with goblet drum, pegged and footed, unaccompanied.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mlekule bona nibajenda bona

- Siluvesitere Ilaliya, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Siluvesitere Ilaliya , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nyalubungo f-tz
  • Language: Zinza
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172684 , vital:42270 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-03
  • Description: "We all like to dance the Mlekule." The microphone started beneath the instrument and was moved above when he started singing in order to show the difference of tone between the upper and lower surfaces of the resonator. It is interesting to note that unlike the Likembe Mbira further south, the resonator of this instrument is broader at the top than at the bottom, i.e. the bridge end is the broader. The scale was:- 332, 308, 280, 252, 228, 204, 184, 166 vs. Self delecatative tune, with Marimbe Likembe, box resonated, 18 notes.
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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