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"Baberita babakana babasangule apumbu." (Babarita has been rejected and they have made a fool of her)
- Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134340 , vital:37124 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-07
- Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele x 8, fan shaped mbira, with external resonator and mirliton.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Bwalwa bwa chiwowo." (Beer not drunk in peace.)
- Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134313 , vital:37120 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-04
- Description: "This beer is for the people, the Kaonde, the Lamba and the Nsenga." The people who use magic are worrying me at my house. I must go to the diviner to find out who it is. Why are you standing there at the door? Come in and do not stay outside."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Cilelensuma." (The sun set)
- Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134322 , vital:37121 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-05
- Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele x 8, fan shaped mbira, with external resonator and piece of glass tapped with metal.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Ilanga lacona." (The sun set)
- Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134349 , vital:37125 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-08
- Description: The song is taken from the old well-known tune from S. Rhodesia ("Ilanga lashona."), which first become popular as a guitar song in Bulawayo. The cowboy, he sings, puts on a large hat as a sign of strenght.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Lefatse le tletse meea e mebe." (Take this letter home.)
- Authors: Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Divination , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134259 , vital:37108 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-12
- Description: This song is sung when the initiates are coming back from their three months' initiation period in the mountains.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Lefatse le tletse meea e mebe." (The country is full of evil spirits)
- Authors: Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Divination , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134268 , vital:37109 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-12
- Description: The Izangoma were supposed to be finding and throwing a "spirit" out of someone who had been bewitched. At the end of the recording, one member of the audience remarked:- "There is no tokolosh (imp) here." Much laughter. The words were partly in Zulu, although the perfomers were actually Sotho.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Litsebe nka lengolo y ec hae." (Take this letter home)
- Authors: Group of Sotho men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Circumcision , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134277 , vital:37111 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-13
- Description: This song is sung when the initiates are coming back from their three month's initiation period in the mountains.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
"Luwalo-o-iuwale." (Start, o start the song)
- Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134304 , vital:37118 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-03
- Description: "What are we doing? The White men have come. Their tents are over there beyond the Chiwombo river." This was first sung long ago, they say, when the Whites first came to their country about 1900, or a little earlier.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
'J' iri ciande
- Authors: Kang'ethe Nduati , Kikuyu boys , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-09-23
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Naroibi f-ke
- Language: Kikuyu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/253330 , vital:52339 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR3613 , XYZT5542b
- Description: Muthuu dance song for boys and girls accompanied by the Kiigamba leg rattles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-09-23
(a) Dendera jikwa; (b) Murombo
- Authors: Raimon Jeketi (Performer) , Composer not specified
- Subjects: Two tunes , Indigenous folk music , Chizambi friction bow , Self delectative , Fort Victoria (Masvingo) , Victoria Province (Masvingo Province) , Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15342 , MOA26-05 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017647 , MOA26
- Description: English translation of titles: (a) 'The nest of the hammerkop'; (b) 'The poor man' , Two tunes (separately titled) of self delectation on the chizambi friction bow by Raimon Jeketi , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
- Full Text: false
(a) Mutomboko; (b) Luwendo
- Authors: Six Luba men (Performer) , Composer not specified
- Subjects: Two ceremonial tunes for a chief , Indigenous folk music , Silimba xylophone , Goblet drums , Shinkolobwe , Katanga Province , Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15438 , MOA31-09 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017744 , MOA31
- Description: Two ceremonial tunes for a chief by a group of six Luba men, with silimba xylophone, accompanied by 3 goblet drums (pinned, weighted, closed, with mirlitons, and handbeaten) , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
- Full Text: false
2 Karanga songs
- Authors: Balu , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 0000 00 00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe city not specified f-rh
- Language: Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/266499 , vital:53984 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP0545-WEA1943
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 0000 00 00
A Baiwelu
- Authors: Four Chewa men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-05-27
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
- Language: Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/252036 , vital:52193 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT591-M63 , Research no. M3G7
- Description: A story with song 'ntando' about a foolish young man accompanied by clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-05-27
A Banda
- Authors: Nyamangwe, Lucy , Tonga girls , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-05-29
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Nkhata Bay f-mw
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/211468 , vital:47618 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT179-D36 , Research no. D2E6
- Description: Wedding songs with drums accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-05-29
A bengai kakoi
- Authors: Engbaka Philippe and friend (Performer) , Composer not specified
- Subjects: Muzeze dance tune , Indigenous folk music , Ekembe (local likembe or mbira) , Aketi , Northern Congo , Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15306 , MOA23-12 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017452 , MOA23
- Description: Muzeze dance music by Engbaka Philippe and friend, accompanied by ekembe (local likembe or mbira) , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
- Full Text: false
A biti Njalasi, aleke ku lila
- Authors: Nyanja boys , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-09-16
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi City not specified f-mw
- Language: Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/269543 , vital:54315 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP0744-XYZT4077
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-09-16
A Buthu Wa Cimbia
- Authors: Luhama, Nancy , Mwenela, Kaunda, Dandy Boys and young girls , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi City not specified f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/283468 , vital:55951 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP1494-XYZ4934b
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
A chiwowola eciya kuni
- Authors: Kumbale Lungu with Nsenga men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-08-29
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-sa
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/197119 , vital:45840 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR0085 , Research no. XYZ4463
- Description: Ulimba dance song for men and women accompanied by xylophone and clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-08-29
A folk song accompanied by drum
- Authors: performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 0000-00-00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa The Democratic Republic of Congo City not specified f-cg
- Language: language not specified
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/257529 , vital:52856 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR3776 , 12a
- Description: A folk song accompanied by drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 0000-00-00
A helehele Nande
- Authors: Kopolo, Sino , Sena People , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique City not specified f-mz
- Language: Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/279170 , vital:55472 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP1238-XYZT4539b
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949