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A Mama dyelawe (Mother what greed)
- Authors: Chewa girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Vidzumo, Kasungu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153464 , vital:39455 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-17
- Description: "Oh, Mother, what greed! The husband with many wives, what greed! He says, close the door, Go to your elder sister. I have resented it, Mama, aye. That is him. The husband likes to eat by himself without his wives or family whom he sends off to eat with others while he feeds alone greedily. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Amaliza
- Authors: Batwa women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Rundi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Africa Rwanda Shangugu f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148859 , vital:38780 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR058-02
- Description: A song in which the young women praise themselves. Sung when they come to pay court to the Omwami or at weedings. Praise song for chief with handclapping.
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- Date Issued: 1952
Anib gera a
- Authors: Johanna Owosis and Eleven Damara women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ovambo (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Okambahe f-sx
- Language: Herero
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195903 , vital:45617 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR218-07
- Description: Gais dance - Lament
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
Botho bafamelang
- Authors: Botha, Karika (Recorded by) , Sesotho children (Performer) , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Shongoane village , Lephalale , Transvaal (Limpopo) , South Africa , Indigenous music , Wedding song , Choral
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:15668 , JKC17b-30 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008857 , Tape number: JKC17 , Original tape number: 17 , Track number: 30
- Description: Unaccompanied Sesotho wedding song , Refer to last page of Jaco Kruger recording card book II
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Citawala. 2nd movement
- Authors: Benson Phiri , Chewa men , Tracey, Hugh
- 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/10962/187236 , vital:44588 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR192-02
- Description: "Men and women, together with the chief, you have come here to see the clever dancers. We come from towns where we sing like church organs." Melody for the 2nd movement. There are two movements in the Muganda dance, the second is performed with drums only and without the Malipenga gourds. Muganda dance, with 1 Bass drum (rubber beaters), I small bass drum (stick beaters) and Malipenga singing gourds with mirliton (-11.14-)
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- Date Issued: 1950
Deze ravashavi revaremba
- Authors: Wilson Ravele , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: Venda (African people) -- South Africa , Folk music -- South Africa , Mbila , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Venda f-sa
- Language: Venda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/93329 , vital:30869 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC024-05
- Description: Traditional song with mbila mutondo Venda xylophone accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1988
E kenia matsolo
- 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/10962/189149 , vital:44821 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-07
- 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. Three girls post-initiation song with 2 drums, leg rattles and whistles
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- Date Issued: 1963
Flute Tune One
- Authors: Katsuba Mwongolo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Genya (African people) , Nande (Congolese (Democratic Republic) and Ugandan people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Butembo f-cg
- Language: Nande
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168641 , vital:41633 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0127-07
- Description: Herdman's tune from the highlands on the eastern border of the Congo where the hills run alongside the great western rift opposite the Ruwenzori mountains. This remarkable player was somewhat 'simple' herdsman. He plays his flute all day to his cattle and has developed, they say, a distinct style of his own. He is inclined to hum while he plays and his voiced notes can be heard forming a celeste with those of the flute. The player was given a 'Highly commended' prize in the 1952 Osborn Awards for the best African musicians of the year. The first four tunes were copied frim discs in the Reference Library as the original tapes were not available. Nyamulera flute, 4 holed, notched.
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- Date Issued: 1952
Handina mwana
- Authors: Fabiao Dingani Mashawa (Performer) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Mbira , Africa Mozambique Bileni f-mz
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132205 , vital:36811 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR004-09
- Description: Five self-delectative songs with mbira dza WaNdau
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- Date Issued: 1955
Harusi
- Authors: Ngayamiso Kitunga (Performer) , Composer not specified
- Subjects: Wedding tune , Indigenous folk music , Malimba , Nzenga , Tabora , Tanganyika (Tanzania)
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15388 , MOA28-12 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017694 , MOA28
- Description: Wedding tune by Ngayamiso Kitung, with malimba (13 reeds, 1 manual, box with mirliton and sound hole) , 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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Hayi kunjani
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical songs , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/101596 , vital:32006 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC085b-07
- Description: Topical Xhosa urban song with guitar accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Indakurira shua (I cry for my friend (duet))
- 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/10962/138198 , vital:37608 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-07
- Description: The grain being pounded was "munga", one of the millets which had first to be sieved in a basket, in order to get rid of the husks. It was poured into the mortar and water was added in order to prevent the powdery meal from flying up. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Johannesburg
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Music , Folk music -- South Africa , Dance song , Bass guitar , Drum , 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/10962/107405 , vital:32824 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC105b-06
- Description: Dance song accompanied by bass guitar and drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Kammaraba
- Authors: Musolwa and 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/10962/169430 , vital:41749 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-03
- Description: This song complains about the modern girl who will not stay at home but uses cosmetics and roams around the country doing no work. The bowl is a wooden platter commonly used for serving food, turned upside down ad beaten with two sticks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Karikambo? (What shall I do?)
- Authors: Masaria and other Tonga women , 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/10962/138148 , vital:37599 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-04
- Description: This song were taken during the actual grinding of millet into meal outside a hut. The millet was a fine brown variety known as Munga in Rhodesia. This small work song is sometimes well known by everyone in the village and commonly used by the women as they grind their corn on the stone outside their hut, or they are individual compositions without a name and with few words to the lyrics. Grinding song accompanied by the sound of grindstone.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Keng se
- Authors: Mashego, Barney (Chief) , Pedi women and one old man , 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/10962/188664 , vital:44774 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-02
- Description: This is a game where 10 small stones, fruits etc. are placed in a row and one at a time are taken away until all are removed. Each numeral has an idea associated with it, such as in English - "Three, three - te riders, Two, two, - the lily-white boys, etc." "What is this? It is Manthaledi Tsela. What is this? It is the son of Mararela le tsela. What is this? There too there is nothing. What is this? Take it away!
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- Date Issued: 1963
Kumaji kumailo-mailo
- Authors: Boys at Dedza Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184875 , vital:44281 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-08
- Description: There was a man who had a wife and he killed a certain woman who had a child and so his wife adopted the baby. It was the child who is supposed to be singing this song. The child was trying to remember her mother and was thinking how she could have been brought up by her own mother. The mother was killed because of a dispute over an old cow. She was carelessly looked by her stepmother. Ntano story song
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- Date Issued: 1958
Kwenda munthowa nkluweme
- Authors: Patiriki Mphaka , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185249 , vital:44357 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-03
- Description: This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. "It is good to walk along the path because then it is I meet my love." This simple song is typical of those of the older generation of musicians. The tuning of the Bango was:- 256, 236, 216, 198, 178, 156, 140 vs. Self delectative song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kwiyo kwiyo (Catch the chicken)
- Authors: Joey Ngwira , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasengu f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156885 , vital:40062 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-10
- Description: The Pango (Bango or Bangwe) is the instrument most commonly found throughout Nyasaland. Here the local dialect changes the more usual Bangwe to Pango and sometimes Pangwe. I was strummed with a swaying of the fingers. The singer begs for a chicken. People have been dancing and then are asking the owner of the house to give them a chicken to eat before they go home. Kwiyo-kwiyo is the sound of the fowl. "Kwiyo-kwiyo, catch the chicken even though it is a small one. There is the chicken." The sound of a bugle intrudes just before the end of the song. Self delectative song with board zither (Pango).
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- Date Issued: 1958
Litsoanya I (A nice song)
- Authors: Julius Mochekoana and Leboea March , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Berea f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161086 , vital:40589 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-09
- Description: This is herdboys' music and the accompanying noises are the kind made by herdsmen to their cattle. Self delectative song with Lesiba stick zither.
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- Date Issued: 1959