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Yizane Mbiza (Bring the pot)
- Authors: Young boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150660 , vital:38994 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-12
- Description: This Mbayizelo or Impezu dance is not performed for any special occasion but just for fun. One young boy plays the repeated melody or the mouth organ, while the others do a kind of prancing dance while making a rhythmic roaring noise in their throats. Mbayizelo dance song, with mouth organ (harmonica).
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- Date Issued: 1957
Wa lwendu chombele (We are going somewhere)
- Authors: Large group of Kanyoka men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Instrumental music , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kandakanda f-cg
- Language: Kanyoka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134449 , vital:37155 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-01
- Description: Although the slit drum, or gong, is used for sending messages among this Congo tribe which lives beside the Bushimaie tributary of the Sankuru, itself a tributary of the Kasai, the great southern aem of the Congo River, it is also used as an accompaniment for dances. It is not known for certain whether it is used to communicate with the dancers during the course of a dance, as is the common practice in West Africa; but from present evidence this appears to be unlikely among the Kanyoka. Kalibambo dance song with 2 Silimba xylophones, 1 slit drum, 3 gobolet drums, handbeaten and 2 basket rattles.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Uswezi I
- Authors: Uwilula with old Nyamwezi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-SA f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172996 , vital:42307 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-09
- Description: Uswezi is said to be the name of a special religious group which believes in divination and power of magic. They speak a special patois or code language of their cult. Unlike the Migabo they are not considered to be useful to society but have certain influence in the land. The song was recorded in Dar-es-Salaam, but their origin is up country near Tabora in the home district of the Nyamwezi tribe. Uswezi divination song, with gourd rattles.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Tsoanya (Sweet sound)
- Authors: Tlokotsi Lesikara and Mohomane , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161839 , vital:40682 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-06
- Description: Herdboy's tune with whistle and calls to their cattle and their dogs. Self delectative tune on the Lesiba.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Tshikongomuti Part I, II and III
- Authors: Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by) , Lambani family (Performer) , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Halambani , Transvaal (Limpopo) , South Africa , Indigenous music , Traditional song , Mbila , Xylophone
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:15930 , JKC14a-20 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009119 , Tape number: JKC14 , Original tape number: 14 , Track number: 20
- Description: English translation of title: 'Name of a ferocious ant' , Traditional Venda song accompanied by the 21 key xylophone , For further details refer to Jaco Kruger recording card: 148
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Tshikongomuti Part I
- Authors: Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by) , Shonisani and Mboi (Performer) , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Khubvi -- Thohoyandou -- Transvaal (Limpopo) -- South Africa , Thohoyandou -- Transvaal (Limpopo) -- South Africa , Transvaal (Limpopo) , South Africa , Indigenous music , Traditional music , Xylophone , Mbila , Duet performance , Instrumental , Malende dance
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:15936 , JKC14b-26 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009125 , Tape number: JKC14 , Original tape number: 14 , Track number: 26
- Description: English translation of title: 'Name of a ferocious ant' , Part I of duet performance of Malende traditional Venda dance tune with 21 key xylophone accompaniment , For further details refer to Jaco Kruger recording card: 156
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Title not specified
- Authors: Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by) , Daniel Tshikunde and Stephen Tshikunde (Performer) , Daniel Tshikunde (Composer)
- Subjects: Tshapasha , Rambuda , Transvaal (Limpopo) , South Africa , Indigenous music , Traditional music , Reed-flute , Zwipotoliyo , Ocarina , Instrumental
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:15821 , JKC01b-08 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009010 , Tape number: JKC01 , Original tape number: 1 , Track number: 08
- Description: Traditional Venda zwipotoliyo (ocarina) song variation 3 of 5 , For further details refer to Jaco Kruger recording card: 13
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Siphe amandla
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Music , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical songs , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/99130 , vital:31667 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC078b-01
- Description: Instrumental music
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- Date Issued: 1987
Sheme yasenzana wa mai-we
- 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/10962/138216 , vital:37610 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-09
- Description: The song was done by small girls of about 12 years old. One did the singing, the other the 'shushing'. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ruimbo rwa ngu
- Authors: Rebecca Nyanyega and Kikuyu girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kikuyu , Kikuyu (African people) , Songs, Kikuyu--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Njeri f-ke
- Language: Kikuyu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175490 , vital:42585 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR159-04
- Description: A woman whose husband was away complains that she did not want to go out to collect firewood and would not have gone if she had not found the axe lying outside. "In any case, she says, there is no one to meet me at home on my return, only the poles of the hut." Work song, carrying firewood.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Ngondo
- Authors: Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by) , Shonisani, Nelson (Performer) , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Khubvi -- Thohoyandou -- Transvaal (Limpopo) -- South Africa , Thohoyandou -- Transvaal (Limpopo) -- South Africa , Transvaal (Limpopo) , South Africa , Indigenous music , Traditional music , Xylophone , Instrumental , Bass , Makwetane , Solo
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:15682 , JKC11a-06 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008871 , Tape number: JKC11 , Original tape number: 11 , Track number: 06
- Description: English translation of title: 'Lemba song' , Solo performance of traditional Venda tune in Makwetane that is bass with 21 key resonatorless xylophone accompaniment , For further details refer to Jaco Kruger recording card: 120
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Ndala ya Magweni i a vhavha
- Authors: Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by) , Tshivhase, Luvhengo (Performer) , Mabilu, Petros (Performer) , Mabilu, Petros (Composer)
- Subjects: Phiphidi , Thohoyandou -- Transvaal (Limpopo) -- South Africa , Transvaal (Limpopo) , South Africa , Indigenous music , Traditional song , Tshidzholo bow , Tube zither
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:15654 , JKC02b-03 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008843 , Tape number: JKC02 , Original tape number: 2 , Track number: 03
- Description: English translation of title: 'Starvation at Magweni is bad' , Traditional Venda song accompanied by the tshidzholo bow , For further details refer to Jaco Kruger recording card: 43
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Mukadzi unoerei-ko? (What is your surname)
- Authors: Tichainda Mudyanadzo and Lunita Zimbwa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Albert Mission, Gutu Reserve, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154667 , vital:39762 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-20
- Description: Sorry, sorry, sorry. What is the woman's surname? My surname is this child. The legs are burnt with the porcupine. What kind of 'mungu' is that, another? I have lost, I have burnt my child. Call his aunt. His aunt where is she? She digs in the chief's garden. Lift the deep voice, we pass. We will come out at Chanembe. Chanembe where there are girls. Who stab each other with knives. The spears are buried under ground . Please give us those spears. We will stab the big tree trunk. The big tree trunk, where is it? It is at the pool of Buuro. What did you give to Buuro? We gave him that little drum there. How does it sound? 'Ti-ndi-ngu!' Hippo in the pool. Where is the owner of the pool? He has gone to pick fruit. We will eat it at our home. Etc., etc.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Mtsitso wo Khata
- Authors: Katini we Nyamombe and five players (Performer) , Katini we Nyamombe (Composer)
- Subjects: Orchestral dance , Indigenous folk music , Timbila xylophones , Zavala District , Sul do Save Province , Mozambique
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15443 , MOA31-14 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017749 , MOA31
- Description: English translation of title: 'First orchestral introduction' , The first Mzeno orchestral movement from the Ngodo of Zavala, Katini we Nyamombe 1943 , Orchestral dance tune by Katini we Nyamombe and five players, with 6 timbila xylophones , 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
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Mr Music
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical song , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/103130 , vital:32212 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC090a-20
- Description: Topical song with guitar accompaniment
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- Date Issued: 1987
Maboko a Kgosi (Praises for Chief Masibi)
- Authors: Andrew Morothoco , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Tlharo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164184 , vital:41088 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0110-04
- Description: The praise is composed by the speaker or praiser themselves. Praise in verse.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Mabandla Chibayibayi
- Authors: Shalati , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1985
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- South Africa , Folk music , Xylophone music , Africa South Africa Wildebeesfontein f-sa
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , Sound recording material
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/97372 , vital:31430 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC053a-02
- Description: Shalati's solo timbila xylophone music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1985
Lipwani Lyaliswangawantu
- Authors: Mugabe with Hehe men , Composer not Specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-06-14
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Iringa f-sa
- Language: Hehe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/221052 , vital:48703 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR1531 , XYZ6159b
- Description: Agricultural work song
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- Date Issued: 1950-06-14
Lipwami lyaliswangawantu
- Authors: Mugabe with Hehe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Hehe (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kilolo f-tz
- Language: Hehe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175031 , vital:42532 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR157-10
- Description: "Hunger makes you feel week." Song for hoeing in the fields. This part of Tanganyika is up on the Southern highlands away from the heat of the valleys. The ground is poor and the rainfall only moderate, the last two seasons 1948-50 were both affected by drought. Work song (agricultural).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Hugh Tracey memorial service
- Authors: Radio program of words and music (Calendar: presentor) , Kathleen David (Producer and Compiler) , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: Tracey, Hugh , Memorial service , Memorial music , Orchestral music , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Saronde Farm f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113210 , vital:33730 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC131a-05
- Description: Full band orchestral music background with reading of an extract
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- Date Issued: 1977