Mwasi joba
- Authors: Bazili, Ane , Ngala friends , 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/10962/203336 , vital:46645 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-036 , Research no. C2V3
- Description: A humourous song accompanied by mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-08
Speech
- Authors: Chief Baonoko , Buudu men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-08-09
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombe f-cg
- Language: Budu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/220882 , vital:48684 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT320-F102 , Research no. F4K7
- Description: A chiefs speech to all the people whom responded accopmanied by an ivory horn.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-09
Khois ge gams ei a ga
- Authors: Fifteen Damara women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ovambo (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Otjimbingwe f-sx
- Language: Herero
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195889 , vital:45615 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR218-05
- Description: Gais dance - Lament
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
Nanga mondithawe (Wherever you go)
- Authors: Four Tumbuka women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tumbuka (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba, Mzimba District f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156257 , vital:39968 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-06
- Description: "Whithersoever thou goes I shall go." To Salisbury to Nairobi I shall go with you." Taken from the words of Ruth in the Bible and put into the local setting. It was sung by the wives of the local police recruits who indeed may have to follow their husband, if not to Salisbury and Nairobi at least to anywhere in Nyasaland. A sentimental song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Wammuna munabwela kale (Husband, you came long ago)
- Authors: Gezani Mwale , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Bimphi, Dowa, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154028 , vital:39555 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-08
- Description: "My husband, you came long ago. This year give me a child. Father, I want a child. But a red cloth you give to your mother another to your father. The spotted one you give to me." During the rainy season children are forbidden by their mothers to wear red cloth for fear the lightening might strike them. Red cloth, therefore has a bad connotation, which may be reflrcted in this song. A cloth with patterns, flowers or spots is admired and may therefore be lucky. The preoccupation of African people for offspring is clearly seen in this lyric. Self delectative song with Sansi (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Wangwa walila (The baby is crying)
- Authors: Group of 12 Lozi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mangu f-za
- Language: Lozi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139823 , vital:37789 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR051-11
- Description: "The baby is crying. What can I do? I have not enough food to feed my baby."Manyanya dance with 2 friction sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tlali ea ma tsoana
- Authors: Group of Sotho women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-05-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228996 , vital:49624 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT435-L56 , Research no. L1X16b
- Description: A song about the lightning of the chieftainess.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-05-28
Chipungu
- Authors: Jespar Lungu and is wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184437 , vital:44222 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-05
- Description: The man is singing, partly in Falsetto, a duet with his wife. "Chipungu, Chipungu, show me where the meat is." The Chipungu is the Bateleur eagle which features in many songs in this part of Africa. It is sometimes said to be a sign of good luck, and, sometimes, if flies across your path at the beginning of a journey that you should turn back and start again tomorrow. Self delectative song with Kalimba, eleven notes, fan and external resonator
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Bamangolosa bachusuwano
- Authors: Kalunga, Edward , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-05
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Zambezi Valley f-za
- Language: Lala-Bisa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/236241 , vital:50390 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT466-L87 , Research no. L2L5
- Description: A self delectative song accompanied by the kankowele mbira, external resonator and mirliton.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-05
Hoe hoe
- Authors: Mwana Bibi with Swahili women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Kenya , Songs, Swahili--Kenya , Songs, Swahili--Tanzania , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malindi f-ke
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180048 , vital:43300 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-18
- Description: This is an amusing farewell song with typical cries from the gay veiled ladies of the Arab households of Malindi. Farewell song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Sawubona
- Authors: Nganzakwenye, Shandu , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1955-01-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mhlolutini Village f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/224771 , vital:49145 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT345-H11 , Research no. H1E6B
- Description: Self delectative song with Makhweyana bow accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-01-28
Magayo gonalemaga
- Authors: Nyakwela , Gogo men and women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-06-17
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dodoma f-tz
- Language: Gogo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/206679 , vital:47049 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT060-D50 , Research no. D2X5
- Description: Topical song with 2 hourglass drums, 3 Malimba trough zithers, Ndwala bells and flat tin rattles accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-06-17
Bamangolosa bachusuwano
- Authors: Performer not specified , Edward Kalunga (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lala (African people) , Africa South Africa Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133687 , vital:37004 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR014-03
- Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele mbira fan-shaped, with external resonator and mirliton
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nyamhoni oweha (Name of a woman)
- Authors: Petros Samalaboma , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mzuzu, Northern Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154017 , vital:39554 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-07
- Description: The meaning of the song is not clear. The singer claims that some of the words of the song were in Tumbuka/Henga. The Kubu bow is a simple tall bow (56 inches) held vertically and strained near the lower end, the main segment of the string being 40 inches long. It has a gourd resonator. The player struck the long segment only, stopping it with the point of his first finger and with his thumb. Self delectative song with musical bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Alhamdulilla
- Authors: Salim Zeydan with Arab men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Kenya , Songs, Swahili--Kenya , Songs, Swahili--Tanzania , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malindi f-ke
- Language: Arabic
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180012 , vital:43292 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-14
- Description: A song which is sung when the bridegroom is having his head and beard shaved. "We have shaved him by force. Let us rejoice together." Wedding song, with 1 Hayir bass drum, 1 Maras bass drum, played with hands, 2 Tasa bowl drums, laced, played with sticks and clapping (-12.02-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Waye-aye
- Authors: Sibanda, Ukama , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-07
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kariba f-za
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/245916 , vital:51418 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT536-L158 , Research no. L3K1b
- Description: Indigenous self-delectative folk song with singing accompanied by a 24 note mbira dza waNau and a bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-07
Kuwe kuwe ngoma
- Authors: Teachers Training College, Penhalonga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Goromonze f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180681 , vital:43601 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-10
- Description: Story song, with 2 rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
Nditu, nditu, nditu
- Authors: Three small Nsenga boys , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-06-18
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Wankie Colliery f-rh
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/231639 , vital:49910 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT447-L68 , Research no. L2B-NDITU NDITU
- Description: Indigenous tolpical folk song with singing accompanied by a homemade guitar with a tin body .
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-06-18
Mandowa
- Authors: Zhanke Masingi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1954
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Makulane f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181821 , vital:43772 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-15
- Description: A tune taken from the Mandowa tumbling dances and said to be of long standing in their district which is a few miles south of the mouth of the Sabi river in Mozambique territory. The tuning of the Mbira was:- 368, 328, 288, 252, 216, 202, 184 v.s. Dance tune for Mandowa tumbling dance with Mbira dza WaNdau
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1954