Ndazwa ngengoma kurira
- Authors: Tabarirevu Muyambo , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Folk songs, Ndau , Chopi (African people) , Ndau (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Mwanditura f-mz
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/194423 , vital:45447 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR205-15
- Description: This is the favourite song of Leonard Simango, the carpenter, who is heard singing it at any time of the day as he works. Even if he starts to sing another song it will not be long before he comes back to this one again. :I heard the sound of drumming. I heard the drum saying 'Guduru'. I heard the sound of the drums, they must be there!" Song for Mashawi souls with Mbira dze chiNdau.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
O-o Mashego
- Authors: Group of 10 young Pedi initiates (girls) , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189132 , vital:44819 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-05
- Description: Sung by the girls after the initiation ceremonies are over. They dress up in skins and wear small mirrors and go about among the houses and people, dancing and asking for presents. The initiation school lasts for two months and follows much the same lines as those of the Tswana. Many young Africans from Kenya southwards use metal whistles for their dances, blowing them continously as in this item; the result is deafening to the audience but apparently most enjoyable to the young who seem to be impervious to the noise. "Oh-oh Mashego has won. He has won by driving the wizards away." Three girls post-initiation song with 2 drums, leg rattles and whistles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963