Shangara
- Manyoni Wanyamande and his wife, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande and his wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Gwelo f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180185 , vital:43330 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-07
- Description: Drinking song with Njari (Mbira)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande and his wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Gwelo f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180185 , vital:43330 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-07
- Description: Drinking song with Njari (Mbira)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Gombahari murume (Gombahari, the jealous husband)
- Manyoni Wanyamande, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180250 , vital:43344 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-14
- Description: The song is typical of those which are in great demand at any party. In the old days Njari players would tour the country singing at parties as wandering minstrels, receiving gifts in food and kind and then going on to the next village. Humorous song with Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180250 , vital:43344 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-14
- Description: The song is typical of those which are in great demand at any party. In the old days Njari players would tour the country singing at parties as wandering minstrels, receiving gifts in food and kind and then going on to the next village. Humorous song with Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Chaminuka teera wamwe (Chaminuka follows others)
- Manyoni Wanyamande, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180241 , vital:43341 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-13
- Description: Chaminuka is the name given to a whole line of religious prophets who for many generations led the spiritual life and thoughts of the Karanga people. One of the Chaminuka prophets is said to have smitten the waters of the Zambezi so that the river parted. The Karanga people came over dry foot. His soul, they say, first flew across the river in the form of a dove. Towards the end of the song, the singer breaks into the local patois, representing a conversation between him and a 'Mujoni'. a policeman on a horse. Humorous song with Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180241 , vital:43341 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-13
- Description: Chaminuka is the name given to a whole line of religious prophets who for many generations led the spiritual life and thoughts of the Karanga people. One of the Chaminuka prophets is said to have smitten the waters of the Zambezi so that the river parted. The Karanga people came over dry foot. His soul, they say, first flew across the river in the form of a dove. Towards the end of the song, the singer breaks into the local patois, representing a conversation between him and a 'Mujoni'. a policeman on a horse. Humorous song with Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Mbiriwiri ya Mondoro
- Manyoni Wanyamande, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180222 , vital:43334 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-11
- Description: The name of this tune 'Mbiriwiri' has been associated with the playing of Mbira type instruments from time immemorial. In this case it is also connected with the spirit concept of the Mondoro or Lion spirit. The singer uses several quotations from older songs such as "Regai ndi baiwa ne banga chena, kufa kwandida." This is to be the prophet Chaminuka's last words when he was surrounded by Ndebele soilders who had come to kill him. They could not harm him and he died by being pierced in the armpit with a sharp knife held by a small boy. "Let me be stabbed by a bright knife, the death of my desiring." Song for Mashawi souls with Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180222 , vital:43334 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-11
- Description: The name of this tune 'Mbiriwiri' has been associated with the playing of Mbira type instruments from time immemorial. In this case it is also connected with the spirit concept of the Mondoro or Lion spirit. The singer uses several quotations from older songs such as "Regai ndi baiwa ne banga chena, kufa kwandida." This is to be the prophet Chaminuka's last words when he was surrounded by Ndebele soilders who had come to kill him. They could not harm him and he died by being pierced in the armpit with a sharp knife held by a small boy. "Let me be stabbed by a bright knife, the death of my desiring." Song for Mashawi souls with Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Matye rupanga (Fear of the knife)
- Manyika Highlanders (group of singers at St. Augustine's Mission, Penhalonga), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Manyika Highlanders (group of singers at St. Augustine's Mission, Penhalonga) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Mutasa f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180718 , vital:43606 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-14
- Description: The 'diatonic progression' (the two similar phrases sung one after the other) is typical of a great number of Shona songs. Installation of a Chief, with rattle and clapping (-12.03-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
- Authors: Manyika Highlanders (group of singers at St. Augustine's Mission, Penhalonga) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Mutasa f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180718 , vital:43606 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-14
- Description: The 'diatonic progression' (the two similar phrases sung one after the other) is typical of a great number of Shona songs. Installation of a Chief, with rattle and clapping (-12.03-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
Zuwa woye
- Manyika Highlanders (group of singers at St. Augustine's Mission, Penhalonga), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Manyika Highlanders (group of singers at St. Augustine's Mission, Penhalonga) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Mutasa f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180708 , vital:43605 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-13
- Description: "The sun, the sun! The drumming pleases the people." A threshing song of a style heard in most Shona villages in the late autumn. As it was raining at the time it was recorded inside one of the school rooms, the singers on the floor in imitation of the sound of threshing. Threshing song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
- Authors: Manyika Highlanders (group of singers at St. Augustine's Mission, Penhalonga) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Mutasa f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180708 , vital:43605 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-13
- Description: "The sun, the sun! The drumming pleases the people." A threshing song of a style heard in most Shona villages in the late autumn. As it was raining at the time it was recorded inside one of the school rooms, the singers on the floor in imitation of the sound of threshing. Threshing song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
Rungano rgwe musikana wo mvura murugwizi
- Authors: Mamungu Gumbo , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
- Language: Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195139 , vital:45532 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR210-09
- Description: This is the story of a young man who fell in love with a girl down by the river. He did not know that she was indeed a water sprite and lived in the river. He kept on asking her to marry him, and in the end she agreed but told him that if he wanted to see her he must always come to the river. Eventually he said he wanted to take her to his home, but she said "If you do that you must always have a pot of water with you in case I should faint and only water will revive me". So he agreed, and off they set along the path. Soon she began to faint and he rushed to fetch water from the nearest stream and so revived her. On they went until she fainted again and this time the stream was much further away and he only arrived back just in time to revive her. Now there was a long distance without a stream and in the middle of it she fainted once more. He went as fast as he could to fetch the life-giving water but when he got back it was too late and she was already dead; and that is how he lost his wife, his water sprite. Ngano story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Mamungu Gumbo , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
- Language: Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195139 , vital:45532 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR210-09
- Description: This is the story of a young man who fell in love with a girl down by the river. He did not know that she was indeed a water sprite and lived in the river. He kept on asking her to marry him, and in the end she agreed but told him that if he wanted to see her he must always come to the river. Eventually he said he wanted to take her to his home, but she said "If you do that you must always have a pot of water with you in case I should faint and only water will revive me". So he agreed, and off they set along the path. Soon she began to faint and he rushed to fetch water from the nearest stream and so revived her. On they went until she fainted again and this time the stream was much further away and he only arrived back just in time to revive her. Now there was a long distance without a stream and in the middle of it she fainted once more. He went as fast as he could to fetch the life-giving water but when he got back it was too late and she was already dead; and that is how he lost his wife, his water sprite. Ngano story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Rungano rgwe muno waikama maperi
- Authors: Mamungu Gumbo , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
- Language: Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195130 , vital:45531 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR210-08
- Description: This is the story of a certain man who married a girl and always her plenty of milk so that she thought he must have many cows. But this was not so. This is what he did. Every morning he would go out into the bush, make a magic, and turn himself into a hyena. Then he would join a pack of hyenas and in this disguise milk one of them. Then having plenty of milk in his pot he would turn back a man and bring home the milk. His wife became suspicious as she never saw any cattle so she called her younger sister to come help her so;ve the mystery. She watched her sister's husband fro a distance. Saw him turn into a hyena, get the milk and come back with it. So she sang this lament and this manner she told all the people what had happened, that her elder sister had married a wizard. Ngano story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Mamungu Gumbo , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
- Language: Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195130 , vital:45531 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR210-08
- Description: This is the story of a certain man who married a girl and always her plenty of milk so that she thought he must have many cows. But this was not so. This is what he did. Every morning he would go out into the bush, make a magic, and turn himself into a hyena. Then he would join a pack of hyenas and in this disguise milk one of them. Then having plenty of milk in his pot he would turn back a man and bring home the milk. His wife became suspicious as she never saw any cattle so she called her younger sister to come help her so;ve the mystery. She watched her sister's husband fro a distance. Saw him turn into a hyena, get the milk and come back with it. So she sang this lament and this manner she told all the people what had happened, that her elder sister had married a wizard. Ngano story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Ndaka nyanya kushata mai-weu!
- Majoweni Andireya, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Majoweni Andireya , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chipungahera f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181738 , vital:43763 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-06
- Description: The player was about 300 miles from his home district working on the construction of the Kariba dam on the Zambezi river. "I am so very ugly that no one will marry my daughter." As in other communities it is important to launch your daughter as soon as possible. The Ndau Mbira has three manuals but this example has only two, tuned from right to left in descending order. Self delectative song with Mbira dza WaNdau, tin resonator and 26 notes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Majoweni Andireya , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chipungahera f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181738 , vital:43763 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-06
- Description: The player was about 300 miles from his home district working on the construction of the Kariba dam on the Zambezi river. "I am so very ugly that no one will marry my daughter." As in other communities it is important to launch your daughter as soon as possible. The Ndau Mbira has three manuals but this example has only two, tuned from right to left in descending order. Self delectative song with Mbira dza WaNdau, tin resonator and 26 notes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mbuya wasika waye
- Majoweni Andireya, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Majoweni Andireya , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Sipungabera f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181727 , vital:43762 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-05
- Description: Many men from the tribe on the eastern borders of Southern Rhodesia come 400 miles across the territory to this coal mine at Wankie near the Victoria falls where the song was recorded. This song was taken from a girl's song, often used they say, while grinding corn or millet on the grinding stone. Topical song with Mbira dza waNdau, resonated, with 26 notes
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Majoweni Andireya , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Sipungabera f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181727 , vital:43762 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-05
- Description: Many men from the tribe on the eastern borders of Southern Rhodesia come 400 miles across the territory to this coal mine at Wankie near the Victoria falls where the song was recorded. This song was taken from a girl's song, often used they say, while grinding corn or millet on the grinding stone. Topical song with Mbira dza waNdau, resonated, with 26 notes
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kutauro no muridzo
- Kutauro no muridzo, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kutauro no muridzo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Bikita f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180538 , vital:43399 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-12
- Description: Although the message drums of central and west Africa are unknown south of the Congo basin, young herd boys have long used a whistling language in which the tone of the phrases they wish to convet are whistled to each other at some distance, often at a safe distance on the other side of a river because much of what they whistle may be humorous or even disrespectful to the stronger or older of the small fry. The first part is a whistled conversation, usually done at some distance apart. The second part is a sample conversation in which the boys say the words that they had whistled to demonstrate the rise and fall of tone. Whistling conversation.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Kutauro no muridzo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Bikita f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180538 , vital:43399 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-12
- Description: Although the message drums of central and west Africa are unknown south of the Congo basin, young herd boys have long used a whistling language in which the tone of the phrases they wish to convet are whistled to each other at some distance, often at a safe distance on the other side of a river because much of what they whistle may be humorous or even disrespectful to the stronger or older of the small fry. The first part is a whistled conversation, usually done at some distance apart. The second part is a sample conversation in which the boys say the words that they had whistled to demonstrate the rise and fall of tone. Whistling conversation.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Wakazofa akasiya umwe
- Jima Shumba with Duma men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Jima Shumba with Duma men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Bikita f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180565 , vital:43403 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-15
- Description: Fighting songs which date back to the days when the Shangaans were raiding from the south-east and the Matebele from the south west. Fighting songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Jima Shumba with Duma men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Bikita f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180565 , vital:43403 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-15
- Description: Fighting songs which date back to the days when the Shangaans were raiding from the south-east and the Matebele from the south west. Fighting songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Baya, wa baya, ho-ha-ho!
- Jima Shumba with Duma men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Jima Shumba with Duma men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Bikita f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180556 , vital:43402 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-14
- Description: This song is known over the whole lenght and breadth of the Karanga country. It was first sung, they say, in the 19th century as a fighting song against the Ndebele under Mzilikatsi from the west and the Shangaans under Ngungunyana from the east. These two Ngoni tribes from Zululand met on the Mtilikwe River and decided to keep to their on side of the river raiding the villages on either hand. "Kuwerure" they cry, when two sides meet in battle. Fighting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Jima Shumba with Duma men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Bikita f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180556 , vital:43402 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-14
- Description: This song is known over the whole lenght and breadth of the Karanga country. It was first sung, they say, in the 19th century as a fighting song against the Ndebele under Mzilikatsi from the west and the Shangaans under Ngungunyana from the east. These two Ngoni tribes from Zululand met on the Mtilikwe River and decided to keep to their on side of the river raiding the villages on either hand. "Kuwerure" they cry, when two sides meet in battle. Fighting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Chakacha pamutengeni we mbira
- Jeke Shoko with Duma men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Jeke Shoko with Duma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Bikita f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181423 , vital:43732 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR175-02
- Description: "Walk, walk under the rock rabbit's fruit tree." Three story for a story
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Jeke Shoko with Duma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Bikita f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181423 , vital:43732 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR175-02
- Description: "Walk, walk under the rock rabbit's fruit tree." Three story for a story
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Tindi! Zaone
- Jeke Shoko with Duma men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Jeke Shoko with Duma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Bikita f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181434 , vital:43733 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR175-03
- Description: "Tindi! Come and see the eye on the ground. A certain man buried a drum underneath the path which several wild animals used to take on their way to eat his crops in the fields. As they walked over the place where the drum was buried it made an attractive sound as 'Tindi'. So the animals kept on walking over the spot calling to each other to try it out for themselves. In this way their attention was diverted from the main crops in the field. Three story for a story
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Jeke Shoko with Duma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Bikita f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181434 , vital:43733 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR175-03
- Description: "Tindi! Come and see the eye on the ground. A certain man buried a drum underneath the path which several wild animals used to take on their way to eat his crops in the fields. As they walked over the place where the drum was buried it made an attractive sound as 'Tindi'. So the animals kept on walking over the spot calling to each other to try it out for themselves. In this way their attention was diverted from the main crops in the field. Three story for a story
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Shumba (The liar)
- James Gwezhe Soko, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: James Gwezhe Soko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Goromonze f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180619 , vital:43593 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-04
- Description: Said to be an old hunting song, sung by the people left at home when the men were out hunting. The muscians remained behind playing this music quietly to bring luck to the hunters. The singer is singing to himself in self-delectative style without an audience. Hunting song with "Mbira Huru".
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
- Authors: James Gwezhe Soko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Goromonze f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180619 , vital:43593 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-04
- Description: Said to be an old hunting song, sung by the people left at home when the men were out hunting. The muscians remained behind playing this music quietly to bring luck to the hunters. The singer is singing to himself in self-delectative style without an audience. Hunting song with "Mbira Huru".
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
Mai wa Aruna (Mother of Aruna)
- James Gwezhe Soko, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: James Gwezhe Soko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Goromonze f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180610 , vital:43592 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-03
- Description: A traditional song, sung after a party. No one knows who the mother of Aruna might have been. The song has been sung for over 30 years to my certain knowledge and is likely to be much older. Traditional song with "Mbira Huru".
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
- Authors: James Gwezhe Soko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Goromonze f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180610 , vital:43592 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-03
- Description: A traditional song, sung after a party. No one knows who the mother of Aruna might have been. The song has been sung for over 30 years to my certain knowledge and is likely to be much older. Traditional song with "Mbira Huru".
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
Aleluya mambo wakamuka muvafi
- Gwenzi Gwasera and friend, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Gwenzi Gwasera and friend , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Shona , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195191 , vital:45538 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR211-04
- Description: Mbira duet for midzimu ritual.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
- Authors: Gwenzi Gwasera and friend , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Shona , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195191 , vital:45538 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR211-04
- Description: Mbira duet for midzimu ritual.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
Nhiura
- Gwenzi Gwasera, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Gwenzi Gwasera , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Shona , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195175 , vital:45536 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR211-02
- Description: Song for mashavi ritual.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
- Authors: Gwenzi Gwasera , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Shona , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195175 , vital:45536 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR211-02
- Description: Song for mashavi ritual.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
Magonde
- Gwenzi Gwasera, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Gwenzi Gwasera , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Shona , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195166 , vital:45535 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR211-01
- Description: Song for midzimu and mashavi ritual.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
- Authors: Gwenzi Gwasera , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Shona , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195166 , vital:45535 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR211-01
- Description: Song for midzimu and mashavi ritual.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965