Antelope hunt
- Authors: Group of Mambuti Pygmy men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-07-25
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Beni f-cg
- Language: Efe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/218493 , vital:48404 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT311-F89 , Research no. F4B4b
- Description: Indigenous folk hunting song with singing accompanied by two hunting whistles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-07-25
Che Bula
- Authors: Mami Nakwenda , Belifa Nyabanda , Two Chewa girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186416 , vital:44496 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-01
- Description: "Che Bula you are a naughty, you will never be given a cow." Simple pounding song in which the one girl echoes the other as they pound in the same mortar with alternate strokes. This echoing style of singing is also used for their rain songs and at first hearing leaves an impression of confusion rather than intent. Pounding song, with mortar and two pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Chikangaude (The spider)
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158003 , vital:40138 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-07
- Description: A long time ago I went to the garden and there came a certain spider which turned into a man who told my children to give him some clothes to wear. The man told the children he had been sent by their mother. So he took the clothes and disappeared. "Children are children, they take their clothes from their clothes bag and give they away to anyone." Story song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Dendera Jikwa
- Authors: Raimon Jaket , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Melsetter f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181558 , vital:43746 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR175-14
- Description: The otes were produced by the peerformer drawing his breath in past tha Ilala string of the bow, forming the notes at the same time with the fingers of his left hand. Self delectative song with Chizambi friction bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
Dukathole
- Authors: Buthelezi, Mxabaniseni , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1955-01-27
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Buthelezi f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/224383 , vital:49098 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT343-H9 , Research no. H1D17
- Description: Self delectative tune without words, with Igekle flute accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-01-27
Elephant hunt
- Authors: Group of Mambuti Pygmy men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-07-25
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Beni f-cg
- Language: Efe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/218483 , vital:48402 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT311-F89 , Research no. F4B4a
- Description: Indigenous folk hunting song with singing accompanied by two hunting whistles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-07-25
Idembe
- Authors: Mbuti men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-08-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Efe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:48624 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT315-F94 , Research no. F4F2b
- Description: Indigenous folk song for hunting the Iddi (small antelope), with unaccompanied singing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-02
Kisonge
- Authors: Mzee Juma with Shirazi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Zanzibar f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179947 , vital:43253 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-08
- Description: The player takes some time to get into his rhythm. The first tune was played ith the instrument on the ground, the first fingers striking the notes downwards. The second tune was played with the instrument between the palms and plucked with the thumbs in the more usual manner. Instrumental tune, Marimba Madongo.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Kugiga
- Authors: Samsoni Mwetwe and group of Tonga men , 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/10962/138441 , vital:37637 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-09
- Description: The patter of the dancer's feet on the dusty ground can be heard clearly in this recording.Mayanza drinking son with 1 Gavanda drum, conical, single, open, pegged and 3 sticks tapped on the side of the drum. with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mnapowacha madogo
- Authors: Saadani Abdu Kandoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kigoma f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179424 , vital:43062 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-06
- Description: "If you neglect small things, you will also neglect the larger." The poets who compose and recite Mashairi are very conscious of their high purpose. It is interesting to see the African mind unfolding in this Arab art form, and using the poem for moral teaching. Mashairi sung poems
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Musingasinga yakora egali I
- Authors: Muswankuli, Misaki , Tracey, Hugh , Composer unknown
- Date: 1950-08-27
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Masindi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/215961 , vital:48117 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT286-F46-MOA8 TRACK4a , Research no. D5S7
- Description: Ntara dance song accompanied by the Ntara xylophone, 16 loose notes on temporary banana stalk supports.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-08-27
Nakhona Singanga Giba
- Authors: Group of young Swazi men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-26
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Lobamba f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/248528 , vital:51695 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT558-M10 , Research no. M2B6b
- Description: A song for walking all young men do when loping from one village to another.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-26
Nakhona Singianga Giba II
- Authors: Group of young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152970 , vital:39368 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-05
- Description: A song for running and for walking. The same song is done in two styles. A young men do this style of chanting when loping from one village to another. Their songs change each year, they say, but the style of performance remains. It is part of the young men's set of dances also. "We are as many as those of Giba. We (the people of Sobhuza). Chant for running and walking.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Nkento bu wena memzo yamuntu wankaka wambote
- Authors: Kimbumbu, Kimbaja Kimote , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Elizabethville, Lubumbashi f-cg
- Language: Lingala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/203359 , vital:46648 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-036 , Research no. C2V5
- Description: Nostaligic song about a husband not wanting to eat because his wife is at Matadi accompanied by mbira and msambi.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-08
Rera rera nakhuna timinyano kimphale mwana amwene
- Authors: Sawali, W. S. , Lomwe men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-09-16
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Blantyre f-mw
- Language: Malawi Lomwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/209899 , vital:47439 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT110-C128 , Research no. C5N17
- Description: Unaccompanied Lomwe story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-09-16
Tali yanga
- Authors: Young boys at St. Croix Mission , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-13
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kasenga f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/203664 , vital:46684 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-039 , Research no. C3A5
- Description: A song sung about fishing with a fish spear by boys at the St. Croix Mission.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-13
Tengulisha (We care for the cattle of others)
- Authors: R. Mzandu , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kongwa Mission, Dowa, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153542 , vital:39475 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-02
- Description: Herd boys are one of Africa's sources of original songs. The life of thee youngsters is full of the intimate knowledge of creatures and their ways. The discomforts of nature and the constant search for food or sweet things. A herd boy's education is second to none at that tender age and the pleasures are never forgotten. They use a well known proverb concerning their food, referring to their work for other people's cattle. "The one who cooks does not eat the food." "We just take care of the cattle, but they belong to other people. The one who cooks does not eat the food. Snakes glide through the meadows, and go into the forests." Herd boy song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958