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Tito, we miripwa naya kukabanga (Tito, don't imitate)

- Edward Shoni and group of 6 Aushi men., Hugh Tracey

Dale wandizonda

- Manyanda Nyirenda, Young men and women, Hugh Tracey

Namaye Bikitara wakwere bus (We heard the Bikitara has taken a bus)

- Bikitara Banda and friend, Hugh Tracey

Mfana wayigqaba i metarmapkos (The boys put coloured earth on their faces)

- Young men and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young men and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150643 , vital:38992 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-10
  • Description: The roaring or grunting in this dance song is a sound peculiar to the Xhosa. The Luo and Giriyama of Kenya also do it and some of the East Coast Swahili, notably in their religious songs. It is possibly a vestigial remain of Arab influence acquired during the tribe's sojourn in East Africa some 500 years ago. Mbayizelo dance song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mayanze

- Group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138406 , vital:37633 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-05
  • Description: The drum called here called Gayanda is similar if not identical to the one called Musuntu which is used for the Makundu dance. The reason for this variation in naming was not explained. Mayanze drinking songs with a Gayanda drum, hand beaten, the Gayanda being conical, single, open, pegged with 3 sticks tapped on the side of the drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mamvute

- Albesi and Magombo, with Mombutu men and women, Hugh Tracey

Alaina n'kuphika nkhwani (Alaina cooked vegetables)

- Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chewa girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160170 , vital:40415 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-01
  • Description: This kind of dance they say was first introduced into the district by Yao people about 15 years ago in 1940 when it was originally sung in the Yao language from the Fort Johnstone district. But the Chewa girls liked the dance and made up their own words for it. They reflect a young girls growing sense of responsibility towards her domestic duties. "Alaina cooked vegetables, what shall I do for vegetables myself? My mother cooked vegetables, what shall I do for vegetables myself?" Mjiri dance song. Girls evening dances with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Inu mayi (There was a woman)

- Akim Bewe and 2 women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Akim Bewe and 2 women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Masula's village, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153643 , vital:39491 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-12
  • Description: A woman had a daughter and was very keen on inviting men to take her daughter in order to get money for her. She did this with 3 or 4 different men and the people of the village said, "You are very bad to do this as these men will start quarraling because of your daughter." It will be noticed that the moral question of giving her daughter to several different men one after the other does not arise. Only the fact that the men may be jealous of each other and so quarrel. Drinking song
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Watenga mbengo ndani (Who took the chief's towell?)

- Older men of Njolomole, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Older men of Njolomole , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomoe, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Ngoni
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154829 , vital:39783 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-03
  • Description: This kind of song, they say, was sung at the gathering to remember a dead person. The Chief's towell was a cloth which was wrapped around the blade of a short spear which the chief held in his hand in order to wipe the perspiration off his face while he danced. "Who took the chief's towell, Oyayo! who ever it is, bring back Oyayo! look everywhere where the chief's people are, until you find it." Chitoto obsequies after funeral with small iron bells.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Balozi na upange

- Jaji Simba with Giryama men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Jaji Simba with Giryama men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Giryama (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kaloleni f-ke
  • Language: Giryama
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176572 , vital:42717 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-09
  • Description: Chandaluwa is said to be the best composer and dancer in Kaloleni. He has a 'panga' - a knife, they say which cuts into the voices of all the other singers and so he always wins the competitions. Msego dance song for men and women with Kayamba raft rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Dekeye

- Zande elephant drivers, Hugh Tracey

Siwe woronka

- Serina Mako with Hangaza women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Serina Mako with Hangaza 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 Shanga f-tz
  • Language: Rundi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172832 , vital:42287 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-16
  • Description: It is significant that an Ndau man from the South East of Southern Rhodesian on hearing these songs claimed that the style of singing and the sound of the words were very like his own. It is believed that the five related tribes of Southern Rhodesia, now called Shona a common Hima strain from the north, and may well indicate a link with the legend of the Hima Bachwezi, who, the Rundi and Tutsi maintain, came down with them from the north but did not stay and went on south. The features of the singers showed a strong Hamite strain although clearly semi-Bantu. The fourth song has unusally clever little melody. These people come from the border of Rundi-Urundi (Rwanda) in Ngala district. Topical song, with clapping
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Hla unakwahamba (Who gave you that food?)

- Group of young Mpondo boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136569 , vital:37392 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-05
  • Description: The performers were all about 18 or thereabouts. This group wore red blankets with rows of white braid on the girls' skirts. The girls wore very attractive circlets of beads on the head, passing over the forehead and bead chin straps, also a head band passing over the top of the head and round the base of the skull. The sexes were divided dancing at right angles to each other and the girls kept up a shrill high descant. The men danced in a circle as tightly packed sardines. The main feature of the boys' costume were the immense number of strands of beads wound about the hips to a depth of 18 or more. The edges of the blankets were also beaded. The girls also wore three swathings of beads around the hips. 3 Gubura dances for young men.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Piere Dongo

- Onudi Ondiek and Luo men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Onudi Ondiek and Luo men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Kenya , Luo (Kenya and Tanzanian people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya South Nyanza Province f-ke
  • Language: Luo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178828 , vital:42990 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR168-10
  • Description: "Piere Dongo the fat man is very fond of reading but he, also, has neither shield nor ostrich feathers. What will he do for mourning when his mother dies? Tell me that! Books cannot take the place of Buni feathers." The playing of drums by these Nilotic people is usually far simpler in rhythm than of the Bantu. It appears to be essential in Luo society near Kisii to have your shield and your ostrich feathers with you when you attend a funeral. Bul dance song for men with Bunde 5 bass drums, laced and Gara leg bells (-12.55-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mutimba

- Abadongo ba Kabaka, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Abadongo ba Kabaka , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
  • Language: Ganda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170655 , vital:41946 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-07
  • Description: Mutimba was a famous local football player and the song says "Mutimba thank you for the game." Association football has acquired a great hold on most African tribes, the Ganda being as keen as any, praising their own football players in song as they would have praised fighting men in the past. Topical song with 6 Ndingidi lutes, 2 Ndere nothched flutes, 2 Endongo lyres.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kunukizembe pheshakwenciba (The smell of a battle axe across the Kei)

- Group of young Xhosa men and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Xhosa men and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150687 , vital:38997 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-15
  • Description: We were told that this group of Xhosa lads were from Christian homes. The tune is connected to the same dance for young boys and girls between the ages of about 12-17 years. It is a dance song the group of young people use on their way to the home where the party is to take place. The dance itself takes place in a hut. Mbayizelo dance song, with harmonica.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Vigwada mucenyele navyo

- Tumbuka women with men in the background, Hugh Tracey

Bathi abafana ndisandindazana ((Young men call me a beauty)

- Gcaleka women and girls, Hugh Tracey

Itileni

- Group of Xhosa "amakwenkwe" young men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa "amakwenkwe" young men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149134 , vital:38807 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-01
  • Description: "You can look down on the train that goes from Mazeppa to Natal." Sung by boys on their way to the Mtshosho dance. The lilt is very infectious. "Amakwenkwe", young men, are under the approximate age 18-20 years. They are so called before they have been initiated and achieved full manhood. A walking song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Uwi, mamsaga makumbulage wagela mnyabo

- 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/10962/173044 , vital:42316 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-14
  • Description: "You are talking a lot these days my friend, I am sure you will be sad when Nyahinga dies." 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, with clapping and 1 Goblet drum (-14.52101-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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