Nifwe ba four pals (Greetings from the four pals)
- Authors: The Four pals , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Nchanga mine f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151788 , vital:39171 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-14
- Description: "Greeting to mothers and brothers." Topical song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: The Four pals , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Nchanga mine f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151788 , vital:39171 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-14
- Description: "Greeting to mothers and brothers." Topical song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ngwani ulala mudundulu (You bachelors, how do you like sleeping alone?)
- Siambelele Nyama, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Siambelele Nyama , 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/10962/138252 , vital:37615 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-13
- Description: The singer goes on: "You go to workin towns, but when you return home, you failto pay your bride price. You are queer fellows. What do you go to town for - I don't sleep alone. and I am sorry for you. Oh, let me go, I do not want to stay with you bachelors. You had better consult the diviners and ask them to tell you your fortune." "Siambelele" means a sheep, so the singer's name means "Sheep's meat." The tuning of the instrument as follows:- 656, 584, 528, 472, 432, 396, 356, 328, 292, 264 vps. Humorous song with Kankowela mbira. with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Siambelele Nyama , 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/10962/138252 , vital:37615 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-13
- Description: The singer goes on: "You go to workin towns, but when you return home, you failto pay your bride price. You are queer fellows. What do you go to town for - I don't sleep alone. and I am sorry for you. Oh, let me go, I do not want to stay with you bachelors. You had better consult the diviners and ask them to tell you your fortune." "Siambelele" means a sheep, so the singer's name means "Sheep's meat." The tuning of the instrument as follows:- 656, 584, 528, 472, 432, 396, 356, 328, 292, 264 vps. Humorous song with Kankowela mbira. with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nguwenda mela (See how deep the water)
- Authors: Edward Panisi , 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/10962/139064 , vital:37701 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-12
- Description: This was performed by a small boy of about 11 or 12 years old, who is clearly already cut out to be a musician and leader of dances. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Edward Panisi , 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/10962/139064 , vital:37701 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-12
- Description: This was performed by a small boy of about 11 or 12 years old, who is clearly already cut out to be a musician and leader of dances. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nguruwe (The pig)
- 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/10962/138433 , vital:37636 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-08
- Description: Throughout Africa drinking songs are often the most gay and light-heated of all local songs and this is no exception. Mayanza drinking song with 1 Gavanda drum, conical, single, open, pegged and 3 sticks tapped on the side of the drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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/10962/138433 , vital:37636 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-08
- Description: Throughout Africa drinking songs are often the most gay and light-heated of all local songs and this is no exception. Mayanza drinking song with 1 Gavanda drum, conical, single, open, pegged and 3 sticks tapped on the side of the drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ngoma (3)
- Group of Tonga men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , 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/10962/138824 , vital:37676 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-07
- Description: The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length and shape of the horns employed. The smaller boys played the shorter horns and the larger boys the longer horns. The bass horns needing more breath to blow them. This is a very wild kind of dance, with everyone dancing madly in a mob. The step is a short staccato, jigging step to and fro, very simple. Noise seems to be the main object and the dust thrown up by their feet in the alluvial soil of the river valley almost obscured the tight knot of dancers. The celeste caused by the treble pipes in deafening to an observer, but too high pitched to record. The names of the 7 drums from smal to large were:- 1) Gogogo, 2) Kingaridi, 3) Chamutanda, 4) Muntunda, 5) Mujinji, 6) Pininga, 7) Pati. The first four are played with sticks and the three others with hands. They are all the same basic shape being an almost square cut rectangular cylinder for a body and a hollow pipe of wood without foot for a base. They are all sung across the shoulder or held between the thighs for playing. Ngoma dance with Nyele end-blown antelope horn and set of Ngoma drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , 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/10962/138824 , vital:37676 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-07
- Description: The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length and shape of the horns employed. The smaller boys played the shorter horns and the larger boys the longer horns. The bass horns needing more breath to blow them. This is a very wild kind of dance, with everyone dancing madly in a mob. The step is a short staccato, jigging step to and fro, very simple. Noise seems to be the main object and the dust thrown up by their feet in the alluvial soil of the river valley almost obscured the tight knot of dancers. The celeste caused by the treble pipes in deafening to an observer, but too high pitched to record. The names of the 7 drums from smal to large were:- 1) Gogogo, 2) Kingaridi, 3) Chamutanda, 4) Muntunda, 5) Mujinji, 6) Pininga, 7) Pati. The first four are played with sticks and the three others with hands. They are all the same basic shape being an almost square cut rectangular cylinder for a body and a hollow pipe of wood without foot for a base. They are all sung across the shoulder or held between the thighs for playing. Ngoma dance with Nyele end-blown antelope horn and set of Ngoma drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ngoma (2)
- Group of Tonga men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , 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/10962/138819 , vital:37675 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-06
- Description: The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length and shape of the horns employed. The smaller boys played the shorter horns and the larger boys the longer horns. The bass horns needing more breath to blow them. This is a very wild kind of dance, with everyone dancing madly in a mob. The step is a short staccato, jigging step to and fro, very simple. Noise seems to be the main object and the dust thrown up by their feet in the alluvial soil of the river valley almost obscured the tight knot of dancers. The celeste caused by the treble pipes in deafening to an observer, but too high pitched to record. The names of the 7 drums from smal to large were:- 1) Gogogo, 2) Kingaridi, 3) Chamutanda, 4) Muntunda, 5) Mujinji, 6) Pininga, 7) Pati. The first four are played with sticks and the three others with hands. They are all the same basic shape being an almost square cut rectangular cylinder for a body and a hollow pipe of wood without foot for a base. They are all sung across the shoulder or held between the thighs for playing. Ngoma dance with Nyele end-blown antelope horn and set of Ngoma drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , 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/10962/138819 , vital:37675 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-06
- Description: The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length and shape of the horns employed. The smaller boys played the shorter horns and the larger boys the longer horns. The bass horns needing more breath to blow them. This is a very wild kind of dance, with everyone dancing madly in a mob. The step is a short staccato, jigging step to and fro, very simple. Noise seems to be the main object and the dust thrown up by their feet in the alluvial soil of the river valley almost obscured the tight knot of dancers. The celeste caused by the treble pipes in deafening to an observer, but too high pitched to record. The names of the 7 drums from smal to large were:- 1) Gogogo, 2) Kingaridi, 3) Chamutanda, 4) Muntunda, 5) Mujinji, 6) Pininga, 7) Pati. The first four are played with sticks and the three others with hands. They are all the same basic shape being an almost square cut rectangular cylinder for a body and a hollow pipe of wood without foot for a base. They are all sung across the shoulder or held between the thighs for playing. Ngoma dance with Nyele end-blown antelope horn and set of Ngoma drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ngoma
- Group of Tonga men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , 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/10962/138810 , vital:37674 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-05
- Description: The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length and shape of the horns employed. The smaller boys played the shorter horns and the larger boys the longer horns. The bass horns needing more breath to blow them. This is a very wild kind of dance, with everyone dancing madly in a mob. The step is a short staccato, jigging step to and fro, very simple. Noise seems to be the main object and the dust thrown up by their feet in the alluvial soil of the river valley almost obscured the tight knot of dancers. The celeste caused by the treble pipes in deafening to an observer, but too high pitched to record. The names of the 7 drums from smal to large were:- 1) Gogogo, 2) Kingaridi, 3) Chamutanda, 4) Muntunda, 5) Mujinji, 6) Pininga, 7) Pati. The first four are played with sticks and the three others with hands. They are all the same basic shape being an almost square cut rectangular cylinder for a body and a hollow pipe of wood without foot for a base. They are all sung across the shoulder or held between the thighs for playing. Ngoma dance with Nyele end-blown antelope horn and set of Ngoma drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , 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/10962/138810 , vital:37674 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-05
- Description: The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length and shape of the horns employed. The smaller boys played the shorter horns and the larger boys the longer horns. The bass horns needing more breath to blow them. This is a very wild kind of dance, with everyone dancing madly in a mob. The step is a short staccato, jigging step to and fro, very simple. Noise seems to be the main object and the dust thrown up by their feet in the alluvial soil of the river valley almost obscured the tight knot of dancers. The celeste caused by the treble pipes in deafening to an observer, but too high pitched to record. The names of the 7 drums from smal to large were:- 1) Gogogo, 2) Kingaridi, 3) Chamutanda, 4) Muntunda, 5) Mujinji, 6) Pininga, 7) Pati. The first four are played with sticks and the three others with hands. They are all the same basic shape being an almost square cut rectangular cylinder for a body and a hollow pipe of wood without foot for a base. They are all sung across the shoulder or held between the thighs for playing. Ngoma dance with Nyele end-blown antelope horn and set of Ngoma drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ngoma
- Group of Tonga men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , 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/10962/138044 , vital:37587 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-08
- Description: The names of the drums from small to large are: Gogogo, Chamutanda, Muntundu, Pininga and Pati. The drums set the pace of the rhythm, then the horns begin. Each man or boy blows one horn and interpolates his note as he pleases while he dances a jig to and fro among the close knot of hornblowers. The result is a loud and cheerful noise devoid of any melody with everyone, men, women and children shouting, singing and whistling as they shuffle to the impulse of the drumming. The hornblowers at first held ther free hand to an ear, presumably to help them establish their own contribution to the mass sound. Funeral dance song with ensemble of Nyele end-blown antelope horns and Ngoma drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , 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/10962/138044 , vital:37587 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-08
- Description: The names of the drums from small to large are: Gogogo, Chamutanda, Muntundu, Pininga and Pati. The drums set the pace of the rhythm, then the horns begin. Each man or boy blows one horn and interpolates his note as he pleases while he dances a jig to and fro among the close knot of hornblowers. The result is a loud and cheerful noise devoid of any melody with everyone, men, women and children shouting, singing and whistling as they shuffle to the impulse of the drumming. The hornblowers at first held ther free hand to an ear, presumably to help them establish their own contribution to the mass sound. Funeral dance song with ensemble of Nyele end-blown antelope horns and Ngoma drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ngano zwano twokuruma (The story of the people who were digging)
- Authors: Jobi Chaliwepa , 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/10962/138526 , vital:37646 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-04
- Description: The response is "Kalanga-ti". The burden of this story is that a certain man with only one testicle could not walk like other men, but walked with a limp on account of his physical peculiarity. Story with song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Jobi Chaliwepa , 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/10962/138526 , vital:37646 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-04
- Description: The response is "Kalanga-ti". The burden of this story is that a certain man with only one testicle could not walk like other men, but walked with a limp on account of his physical peculiarity. Story with song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndwimo lwa mutetere(Flute tune)
- Mwami Sinefwala Mukuli, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mwami Sinefwala Mukuli , 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/10962/138460 , vital:37639 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-11
- Description: The flute was 6 feet long, and was made of the section of an old bicycle pump. Walking song. (Also self-delectative after work), with Mutetere transverse flute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Mwami Sinefwala Mukuli , 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/10962/138460 , vital:37639 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-11
- Description: The flute was 6 feet long, and was made of the section of an old bicycle pump. Walking song. (Also self-delectative after work), with Mutetere transverse flute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndwano uswi yatata (Father's fish)
- Group of young Tonga girls and children, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of young Tonga girls and children , 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/10962/138499 , vital:37643 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-01
- Description: The story was told to a group of about 30 children of all ages by a young girl of about 16 years. The story was clearly a well known favourite as the audience participated in the song without hesitation or teaching. Perhaps it was father's favourite fishing story. Story with songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of young Tonga girls and children , 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/10962/138499 , vital:37643 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-01
- Description: The story was told to a group of about 30 children of all ages by a young girl of about 16 years. The story was clearly a well known favourite as the audience participated in the song without hesitation or teaching. Perhaps it was father's favourite fishing story. Story with songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndwano siya mani zuminina ngoma ye
- Group of 8 Tonga men and boys, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of 8 Tonga men and boys , 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/10962/139126 , vital:37707 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-17
- Description: This story was enacted as well as told with much vigour. It appears to be based on the theme of the child imprisoned in a drum by a wicked old musician - a story which is well known on the south of the Zambezi throughout S. Rhodesia as the story of "Mikunda wa serewa" and in other versions. Story with song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of 8 Tonga men and boys , 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/10962/139126 , vital:37707 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-17
- Description: This story was enacted as well as told with much vigour. It appears to be based on the theme of the child imprisoned in a drum by a wicked old musician - a story which is well known on the south of the Zambezi throughout S. Rhodesia as the story of "Mikunda wa serewa" and in other versions. Story with song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndoba bieena wisi Mbozi (I am afraid, Father of Mbozi)
- Group of Tonga women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Tonga women , 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/10962/138026 , vital:37585 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-06
- Description: This was an actual funeral dance for an old woman. The dance was a circle dance and a few men joined in, one of them singing the verses. The woman wear clothes knotted on the shoulder (black), leaving one shoulder bare. A string tied round the head. Some of them just wore kilts or skirts and very few beads. "What can I do, As I have lost my mother, oh, what are all these sorrows upon me-" The chorus repeats - "O-yeyeye!" Womens' funeral dance-after burial.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Tonga women , 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/10962/138026 , vital:37585 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-06
- Description: This was an actual funeral dance for an old woman. The dance was a circle dance and a few men joined in, one of them singing the verses. The woman wear clothes knotted on the shoulder (black), leaving one shoulder bare. A string tied round the head. Some of them just wore kilts or skirts and very few beads. "What can I do, As I have lost my mother, oh, what are all these sorrows upon me-" The chorus repeats - "O-yeyeye!" Womens' funeral dance-after burial.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndime mukabaryibaryi basankwa (All the young men like me)
- 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls , 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/10962/138189 , vital:37605 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-06
- Description: The grain being pounded was "munga", one of the millets which had first to be sieved in a basket, in order to get rid of the husks. It was poured into the mortar and water was added in order to prevent the powdery meal from flying up. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls , 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/10962/138189 , vital:37605 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-06
- Description: The grain being pounded was "munga", one of the millets which had first to be sieved in a basket, in order to get rid of the husks. It was poured into the mortar and water was added in order to prevent the powdery meal from flying up. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndamba ndabula bwa muleya (The child says I am the son of my father)
- Tenesi Muntanga and Panisi Mwetwa and group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Tenesi Muntanga and Panisi Mwetwa and 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/10962/138315 , vital:37622 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-19
- Description: There appears to be some connection in this song with the matrilineal outlook of the Tonga people, who inherit through the more certain distaff side. The fact that the child made this remark might indicate that truth may be spoken "out of the mouth of babes", regarding legitimacy. Mendicant's song with leg rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Tenesi Muntanga and Panisi Mwetwa and 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/10962/138315 , vital:37622 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-19
- Description: There appears to be some connection in this song with the matrilineal outlook of the Tonga people, who inherit through the more certain distaff side. The fact that the child made this remark might indicate that truth may be spoken "out of the mouth of babes", regarding legitimacy. Mendicant's song with leg rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndafwa bama (I am dying mama)
- Authors: Notis Chukwa , 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/10962/139097 , vital:37704 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-15
- Description: This item is taken from a dance song-which appears to be a common practice for bow players. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Notis Chukwa , 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/10962/139097 , vital:37704 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-15
- Description: This item is taken from a dance song-which appears to be a common practice for bow players. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndaboola oko ( I am on my way there)
- H. G. Habanyama and group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: H. G. Habanyama and 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/10962/138928 , vital:37686 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-13
- Description: "I am lonely, I wish you would come and help me-who shall sing me my mother's song before I die-I am ashamed because there is nobody who will sing my mother's song." Chiyema party song for men and women with 2 goblet and 1 cylindrical drum, hand beaten and 1 Kayanda tin rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: H. G. Habanyama and 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/10962/138928 , vital:37686 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-13
- Description: "I am lonely, I wish you would come and help me-who shall sing me my mother's song before I die-I am ashamed because there is nobody who will sing my mother's song." Chiyema party song for men and women with 2 goblet and 1 cylindrical drum, hand beaten and 1 Kayanda tin rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Namakawu-wo misali kunyala Liwali (Namakwawu was married to 2 husbands)
- Group of 12 Lozi men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of 12 Lozi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mangu f-za
- Language: Lozi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139747 , vital:37777 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR051-04
- Description: The woman Namakawu was a polyandrist and carried on a successful liaison with 2 men until she was at last found out. Siamboka dance with 2 Milupa conical drums, pegged, open, hand beaten.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of 12 Lozi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mangu f-za
- Language: Lozi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139747 , vital:37777 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR051-04
- Description: The woman Namakawu was a polyandrist and carried on a successful liaison with 2 men until she was at last found out. Siamboka dance with 2 Milupa conical drums, pegged, open, hand beaten.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Naliba kaboma (I cry for my mother)
- Group of 6 Lozi men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of 6 Lozi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mangu f-za
- Language: Lozi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139851 , vital:37792 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR051-14
- Description: A certain man was travelling by train. When he thought of the girl to whom he was engaged to be married he began to weep and call upon his mother. Topical song with Silimba xylophone with 9 notes
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of 6 Lozi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mangu f-za
- Language: Lozi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139851 , vital:37792 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR051-14
- Description: A certain man was travelling by train. When he thought of the girl to whom he was engaged to be married he began to weep and call upon his mother. Topical song with Silimba xylophone with 9 notes
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nafwaya fauya cibamu candi (Looking for my girl))
- Dyson Simwinga and Bemba men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Dyson Simwinga and Bemba men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Mufulira Copper Mine f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151689 , vital:39160 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-02
- Description: "I went to look for my girl, but they told me she had gone to the beer-hall. So I put on my best suit and took my bicycle called "Hummer sports" and went to the beer-hall to look for her. But I found her drinking with her friends and when they saw me, they put on dark glasses. "She came up to me and said "give me a kiss", but I refused saying: "You have accepted beer from these other men." Love song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Dyson Simwinga and Bemba men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Mufulira Copper Mine f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151689 , vital:39160 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-02
- Description: "I went to look for my girl, but they told me she had gone to the beer-hall. So I put on my best suit and took my bicycle called "Hummer sports" and went to the beer-hall to look for her. But I found her drinking with her friends and when they saw me, they put on dark glasses. "She came up to me and said "give me a kiss", but I refused saying: "You have accepted beer from these other men." Love song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957