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Chant et danses bahutu

Rites de la Circumcision Chez les Babira

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  • Authors: Sarusungu school children , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
  • Date: Date not specified
  • Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Nambia Kaisosi sx
  • Language: Oshikwanyama, Oshiwambo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/325809 , vital:60938 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC295-06
  • Description: Traditional Kwangali song performed by Sarusungu school children
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  • Date Issued: Date not specified

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Yesu, sika thina bakho

Ukufa kwakho Nkosi siyakwazisa, novuko lwakho siyaludumisa

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Setimela

Ciwele dance rhythms 2

Ilonge Flute Tune

  • Authors: Balekenosa Kayala , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyakyusa (African people) , Zaramo (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kiwira f-tz
  • Language: Nyakyusa , Zaramo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175273 , vital:42559 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR158-05
  • Description: This hunting flute melodies improvised by the player as he sits iutside the hut of a dead friend have a strange fascination. They are played, they said, during the burial feast or wake. A woman can be crying in the background as in mourning. The method of blowing this pipe is interesting. The open, square cut end to the bamboo pipe is partly closed by the tongue, the wind being expelled out of the side of the mouth across the edge of the bamboo. The tongue is used to give a vibrato effect but the purity of tone is marred by the strong edge tone. These tunes, they say, are frequently used for lamenting the dead, and the player will sit all night outside the hut of his dead friend, improvising flute tunes throughout the hours of darkness. Ilonge end blown flutes.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ilonge Flute Tune

Luwanzo rhythm

  • Authors: Gishu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
  • Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169502 , vital:41757 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-11
  • Description: It has been noticed that while the flying ants are leaving a nest the soilder ants beat their heads on the ground; a sharp noise will also make them do this. Perhaps the explanation may be found in this direction. Two split holes, called Luwanzo, are taken to an ant hill in the late afternoon during rainy weather and balanced carefully on small bunches of banana fibre. The players then beat out rhythms such as this "To the Queen Ant" so that she will send out her flying ants for the men to catch and eat. They say it works wonderfully. Percussion rhythm, using two Luwanzo poles.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Oyo oyo wanize

  • Authors: The seven wives of the Chief , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Zulu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160907 , vital:40560 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-17
  • Description: The women, the members of the brides party depart and they wish the bride 'goodbye'. The song long associated with the Zulu wedding custom in Natal but separated by over 100 years and a thousand miles, show how persistent and nostalgic old songs can be in a strange land inhabited by African 'colonials'. Wedding song.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Oyo oyo wanize

Kwaya

Ngaimoko Daniel

Tune Without Name Two

Maelele thi mu funi zwone

Maelele thi mu funi zwone

Nwana mane

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