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Ayaya wo- mami- yami- e

- Three Chokwe men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Three Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Chokwe (African people) , Folk music , Angola , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Sandoa f-cg
  • Language: Luvale/Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137047 , vital:37482 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR036-03
  • Description: The drums are introduced one after the other, the third drum being heavily weighted and having a distinct buzzing tone, takes the main syncopation. The voices are introduced a full minute after the drums have set the rhythm. Chisira initiation dance with 3 goblet drums, open, pinned, weighted, hand beaten.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ngamibonge Amakentani (Please praise the Kentani people)

- Thombi Fegetwai and Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Mlembe special (Havelock compound special)

- The Star Brothers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: The Star Brothers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock mine f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152751 , vital:39338 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-03
  • Description: This "gnome-like"" music, so easily played and accompanied has swept into popularity since 1956. It has an immediate effect upon young Africans, especially those under twenty and perhaps even more so upon the under ten year olds. Mlembe is a native Swati name for this Havelock asbestos mine. Every tune on the whistle-flutes or penny whistles enjoys the mane of "special: a trick learnt from gramophone record titles. They all imitate other tunes in an urban/folk manner until there is no telling which tune came first, which is the original, and which is the imitation. Town dance with 2 guitars (-10.58-), 2 penny whistle-flutes.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Barberton Special

- The Star Brothers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: The Star Brothers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock mine f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152756 , vital:39339 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-04
  • Description: This "gnome-like"" music, so easily played and accompanied has swept into popularity since 1956. It has an immediate effect upon young Africans, especially those under twenty and perhaps even more so upon the under ten year olds. Every tune on the whistle-flutes or penny whistles enjoys the mane of "special: a trick learnt from gramophone record titles. They all imitate other tunes in an urban/folk manner until there is no telling which tune came first, which is the original, and which is the imitation. Town dance with 2 guitars (-10.58-), 2 penny whistle-flutes.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Umtagato-we! (I am held)

- The Coal Brothers (Four young Swazi youth), Hugh Tracey

Samsoni and Delilah

- The Coal Brothers (Four young Swazi youth), Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: The Coal Brothers (Four young Swazi youth) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock mine f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152733 , vital:39336 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-01
  • Description: All penny whistle tunes seem to have but one parent and that is a certain gramophone record which all players attempt to imitate after their own fashion of folk composition, so that now, after a few years of penny whistle music, there is no telling what tune it represents. Dance with 3 penny whistles (whistle flutes) and guitar (manufactured).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Bilimankhwe (The Chameleon)

- The boys of Kawere school, Hugh Tracey

Kupita Onaphili (Onaphili has died)

- Thawani Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Kupanda mlongo nkusauka (To be without a sister is to be without a home)

- Thawani Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Patse mtondo wanga (Give me my mortar)

- Thawani Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Amtheka cingondo (They have put the clay hat on)

- Thawani Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Omuna wanga (Oh! my husband)

- Thawani Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Zimbige 1

- Tawagaza Sibanda, Hugh Tracey

Chipindura (To turn over)

- Tawagaza Sibanda, Hugh Tracey

Zimbige II

- Tawagaza Sibanda, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tawagaza Sibanda , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154503 , vital:39740 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-02
  • Description: The player was playing with the thumb of the left hand, the thumb and first finger of the right hand. The Njari is the traditional instrument of the district having originated from the Buhera district further north over two centuries ago, when it began to displace an older variety called the Mbira-dza-Midgimu. This is an instrumental recording only. Self delecatative song with Njari (Mbira).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Muzazaranda 2

- Tawagaza Sibanda, Hugh Tracey

Muzazaranda 1

- Tawagaza Sibanda, Hugh Tracey

Indlaliso (Games)

- Swazi men of the "Lindimbi" age group., Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Swazi men of the "Lindimbi" age group. , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Entonjeni, Pigg's Peak f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152509 , vital:39303 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR070-01
  • Description: The singers belonged to the Lindimbi group or regiment. The chant is one of these performed in their barracks when dancing is over. It seems each regiment has many such chants. They accompany the military exercises or drill by which the young men used to keep themselves in fighting trim. The chant with its frequent changes of rhythms which mark the change to a different movement. This performance was very well done. The men were all between the ages of 18 and 30, and belonged to the age group Lindimbi. They perform a number of movements, leaping forward and backward, tuning into file, marching around in a circle and many other actions. It is a most attractive dance drill. ENTONJENI is the old royal kraal. The hill nearby is still used as a burial ground for some members of the royal lineage. Tiga chant to accompany military games or drill.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ngoma yababa kutamba nayo (Father's music for dancing with the spirits)

- Stephen Runeso Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

Ye chikoro (Of the school)

- Stephen Runeso Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

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