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Zumina unditole ulibama (If toy don't love me, send me back to my mother)
- 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/10962/138207 , vital:37609 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-08
- Description: The bracelet on the wristof one of the women pounding can be clearly heard. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Omukazi owajumire embuzi
- Authors: Amosi Bitanako , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Rubirizi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170286 , vital:41879 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-09
- Description: The first story is about a man who was born and grew up inside a hard stonelike skin. It was not until a beautiful girl agreed to marry him that his stoney casing fell away. Story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Segate lesira
- Authors: Botha, Karika (Recorded by) , Sesotho children (Performer) , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Shongoane village , Lephalale , Transvaal (Limpopo) , South Africa , Indigenous music , Wedding song , Clapping , Choral
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:15769 , JKC17b-10 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008958 , Tape number: JKC17 , Original tape number: 17 , Track number: 10
- Description: English translation of title: 'Don't step on the wedding gown' , Wedding song with clapping accompaniment , Refer to last page of Jaco Kruger recording card book II
- Full Text: false
Msitso wombindo
- Authors: Chopi performers (Performers) , Komukomu (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Orchestral music , Xylophone with orchestra , Rattle (Musical instrument) , Instrumental music , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132272 , vital:36818 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR005-02
- Description: Ngodo xylophone orchestral dance of Regulo Bangaza with 15 xylophones and 1 rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Ndingindi (The well dressed man)
- Authors: Elizabeth Banda and Chewa women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159649 , vital:40321 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-11
- Description: There was once a young woman who asked her brother Kamchada whether he would allow her to go and see a young man who put on shoes, hat and trousers. She was very surprised to see a man so dressed as she had never seen such clothes before. She was so delighted she wanted to marry him. It seems to be a simple case falling in love with the uniform. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ikona into ezakwenzeka
- Authors: Group of 7 young men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133560 , vital:36990 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-03
- Description: Group fighting song with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Bengiyo shela
- Authors: Group of 8 young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153042 , vital:39376 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-13
- Description: The singers, who were sitting on the ground, all bent their heads on their folded arms while singing this song. It is the first opening movement of this dance before actully dancing. The dance itself is a variation of the Ndlamu stamping dance found all through Zululand and as far south as Thabankulu in the Transkei. "Bengiyo shela. Bengiyo shela ka lo bamba. Ngiyoshele malangena." Youn men's dance. Isibacha.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Karubgwerubgwe kone agwari (I will sleep on a stone)
- Authors: Group of 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/10962/138017 , vital:37584 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-05
- Description: The only headdress the women wear is a simple band or string round the head and passing over the forehead. They wear a few strings round their neck occassionaly. Their dress mainly consists of a short knee-length skirt and sometimes a bodice. They sometimes wear a good many copper or brass anklets. Skins are still worn as a covering for the upper part of the body. The men have no special dress, just the usual collection of tattered shirts, shorts and trousers. The implication of the second song is: "Now I am married, I don't know where I'm going to; I may have to sleep any where, perhaps in a tree, perhaps on a stone. Marriage song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
The lazyman's song
- Authors: Kavango man and women , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: Diriku (African people) -- Namibia , Folk music -- Namibia , Mbira and percussion music , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa Namibia Okavango f-sx
- Language: Diu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/74245 , vital:30278 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC013b-01
- Description: Traditional song with mbira accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1988
Matangwa
- Authors: Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by) , Radzuma, John (Performer) , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Hamutsha , Transvaal (Limpopo) , South Africa , Indigenous music , Traditional music , Tshihwana , Braced mouth bow , Instrumental , Solo
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:15586 , JKC04a-01 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008775 , Tape number: JKC04 , Original tape number: 4 , Track number: 01
- Description: Traditional Venda tune with tshihwana braced mouth bow accompaniment , For further details refer to Jaco Kruger recording card: 64
- Full Text: false
Vho nndavhelesa mulomo
- Authors: Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by) , Lukwaroni, Nyamukamadi (Performer) , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Tsianda , Transvaal (Limpopo) , South Africa , Indigenous music , Traditional music , Bow , Tshihwana
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:16053 , JKC13a-06 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009242 , Tape number: JKC13 , Original tape number: 13 , Track number: 06
- Description: Solo performance of traditional Venda tune with tshihwana musical bow accompaniment , For further details refer to Jaco Kruger recording card: 139
- Full Text: false
Tshikongomuti
- Authors: Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by) , Mabuba and Kruger (Performer) , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Luheni , Mutale , Transvaal (Limpopo) , South Africa , Indigenous music , Traditional music , Xylophone , Instrumental , Duet performance
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:15927 , JKC11b-07 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009116 , Tape number: JKC11 , Original tape number: 11 , Track number: 07
- Description: English translation of title: 'Name of a ferocious ant' , Duet performance of traditional Venda tune with 21 key xylophone accompaniment , For further details refer to Jaco Kruger recording card: 126
- Full Text: false
Vhambedzi a si vhathu Part II
- Authors: Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by) , Shonisani, Randima and Mashandule (Performer) , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Khubvi -- Thohoyandou -- Transvaal (Limpopo) -- South Africa , Indigenous music , Traditional music , Xylophone , Instrumental , Trio performance
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:16014 , JKC08a-15 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009203 , Tape number: JKC08 , Original tape number: 8 , Track number: 15
- Description: English translation of title: 'The Mbedzi clan are no good' , Part II of trio performance of traditional Venda tune with 21 key xylophone accompaniment , For further details refer to Jaco Kruger recording card: 102
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Aa Hangwani hae hu da dzhomela
- Authors: Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by) , Composer not specified
- Subjects: Takalani's homestead , Mukula , Thohoyandou -- Transvaal (Limpopo) -- South Africa , Transvaal (Limpopo) , South Africa , Indigenous music , Traditional music , Ngoma , Mirumba , Rattles , Clapping , Whistles , Drums , Tshigombela dance , Dance song
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:16099 , JKC02a-09 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009288 , Tape number: JKC02 , Original tape number: 2 , Track number: 09
- Description: English translation of title: 'Ae Hangwani there is a jar of beer' , Traditional Venda dance song accompanied by the mirumba, ngoma, whistling, phala-phala horn, ankle rattles and handclapping , For further details refer to Jaco Kruger recording card: 31
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Takala ri yo vhona dambi Takalani
- Authors: Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by) , Venda people (Performer) , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Takalani's homestead , Mukula , Thohoyandou -- Transvaal (Limpopo) -- South Africa , Transvaal (Limpopo) , South Africa , Indigenous music , Traditional music , Ngoma , Mirumba , Rattles , Clapping , Whistles , Drums , Dance song , Tshigombela dance
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:15785 , JKC02a-03 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008974 , Tape number: JKC02 , Original tape number: 2 , Track number: 03
- Description: English translation of title: 'Takalani we are going to see miracles' , Traditional Venda dance song accompanied by the mirumba, ngoma, whistling, phala-phala horn, ankle rattles and handclapping , For further details refer to Jaco Kruger recording card: 25
- Full Text: false
Mukanda ngalwo Nyamulenzhe
- Authors: Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by) , Shonisani, Flora (Performer) , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Khubvi -- Thohoyandou -- Transvaal (Limpopo) -- South Africa , Thohoyandou -- Transvaal (Limpopo) -- South Africa , Transvaal (Limpopo) , South Africa , Indigenous music , Traditional song , Bow , Lugube , Solo
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:15614 , JKC12a-22 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008803 , Tape number: JKC12 , Original tape number: 12 , Track number: 22
- Description: Traditional Venda song accompanied by the lugube musical bow , For further details refer to Jaco Kruger recording card: 137
- Full Text: false
Ndiri
- Authors: Lokwa Albert na Iarimo (Performer) , Composer not specified
- Subjects: Duet , Indigenous folk music , Likembe natine (treble) , Likembe minu (bass) , Box with mirliton buzzer and sound-hole , Bunia , North Eastern Congo , Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15380 , MOA28-04 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017686 , MOA28
- Description: Duet with likembes; natine (treble) and minu (bass), by Lokwa Albert na Iarimo , 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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Way back in the 60s
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Music , Folk music -- South Africa , Love song , Bass guitar , Steel drum (Musical instrument) , 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/10962/107425 , vital:32826 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC105b-08
- Description: Nostalgic song accompanied by bass guitar and steel pan drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Darling I love you, darling I need you
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Love song , Bass guitar , Steel drum (Musical instrument) , 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/10962/107005 , vital:32749 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC103a-04
- Description: Love song accompanied by bass guitar and steel pan drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Dance papa dance
- 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: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/101573 , vital:32002 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC085b-04
- Description: Topical song with guitar accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987