Yela Mabala kangwana sengitowukhonda (Hallo, Mabala)
- Authors: Lomadlozi Dlamini and group of Swazi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Emkhuzweni, Pigg's Peak f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152276 , vital:39241 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-12
- Description: Song sung by the bride's party at a wedding. It appears that the bride must go to her prospective mother-in-law and ask formally to be accepted by her son's family as part of the wedding proceedings. "Hallo! Mabala in Swaziland (currently called Eswatini), I have come to ask for leave to be accepted, KaNgwane." Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ungcwele
- Authors: Choir , Sigiswa, Mziwamadoda Joseph , Huwiler, Kurt , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1980-04-03
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/255992 , vital:52670 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD011-06
- Description: Indigenous music, Choral music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980-04-03
Unesikhwele
- Authors: Ntombiyomthekethi, 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/10962/224717 , vital:49139 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT345-H11 , Research no. H1E5B
- Description: Love song with Makhweyana musical bow accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-01-28
Unesikhwele
- Authors: Shandu, Ntombiyomthekethi , 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/10962/224865 , vital:49156 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT345-H11 , Research no. H1E5B
- Description: Love song with Makhweyana braced musical bow accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-01-28
Unesikhwele
- Authors: Ntombiyomthekethi, 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/10962/224739 , vital:49141 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT345-H11 , Research no. H1E5C
- Description: Love song with Makhweyana musical bow accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-01-28
Unesikhwele
- Authors: Ntombiyomthekethi, 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/10962/224744 , vital:49142 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT345-H11 , Research no. H1E5E
- Description: Love song with Makhweyana musical bow accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-01-28
Ulale ke mubemi
- Authors: Mbontyi, Nqwane , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-05-21
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228216 , vital:49533 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT419-L40 , Research no. L1S10b
- Description: A tune played on the harmonica.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-05-21
Ngitowucelinkhoto nahojaba (I have come to ask for admission from thr groom's mother)
- Authors: Lomadlozi Dlamini and group of Swazi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152267 , vital:39240 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-11
- Description: Song sung by the bride's party at a wedding. It appears that the bride must go to her prospective mother-in-law and ask formally to be accepted by her son's family as part of the wedding proceedings. Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ngitowucelinkhoto nahojaba
- Authors: Dlamini, Lomadlozi , Group of Swazi women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-29
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Pigg's Peak f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/248792 , vital:51726 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT564-M16 , Research no. M2E1a
- Description: A wedding song by the bride's party at a wedding unaccompanied.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-29
Mvana ka Thixo
- Authors: Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1981-04-19
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Lumko f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/258141 , vital:52939 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD021-10
- Description: Church music, church hyms, Choral music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1981-04-19
Kinula
- Authors: Ebundo, Hari , 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: Nande
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/218568 , vital:48412 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT312-F90 , Research no. F4B6a
- Description: Indigenous self delectative folk song with singing accompanied by whistling and a kiliyo likembe (mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-07-25
Ine ndaleka sanje (I have left my jealousy)
- Authors: Mugizi Mware , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159997 , vital:40365 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-03
- Description: The first wife of a certain man was jealous of the younger wife. The husband was arguing with her but she replied that she had indeed put jealousy behind her in the hut of her children. Her children were in fact her consolation. "I left my jealousy in the house of my son. Come and kneel, I have left my jealousy. Lament with Karigo one string bowed lute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ine ndaleka sanje
- Authors: Mwane, Muzizi , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-05-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
- Language: Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/252173 , vital:52209 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT593-M65 , Research no. M3H10
- Description: A lament about a first wife being jealous of the younger wife accompanied by karigo one string lute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-05-28
Hompa zuvha nonkango dange
- Authors: Rundu Folk , Sifire, Renate , Muyanga, Joseph , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1981-11-11
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Nambia Rundu f-sx
- Language: Kwangali
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/259993 , vital:53232 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD028-04
- Description: Indigenous traditional music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1981-11-11
Eko ilimpenta
- Authors: Mataba, Shef , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-05
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Broken Hill f-za
- Language: Lala-Bisa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/236850 , vital:50456 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT469-L90 , Research no. L2L17c
- Description: A self delectative song accompanied by kankowele mbira, external resonator and mirliton.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-05
Eko ilimpenta
- Authors: Performer not specified , Shef Mataba (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/10962/133724 , vital:37009 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR014-08
- Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele mbira fan-shaped, with external resonator and mirliton with 2 manuals
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Chani zangaria (I want to be married)
- Authors: Iron Khoma , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Tumbuka , Malawi , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Luvale/Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137294 , vital:37507 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0037-01
- Description: "I want to have a wife. My friends, I want to be married. The fact that I have little hair on my head makes no difference. I have been singing songs with you for a long time. I have been singing songs with Tajiri and Jacobe. At our homes, over there, we have sung songs." Self-delectative nostalgic song with Bangwe board zither with 7 strings, lowest not used.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Adaweta ng'ombe, kapolo uja (That slave herded the cattle)
- 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/10962/153999 , vital:39552 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-05
- Description: "He herded the cattle, that slave. He herded the cattle, father. The cattle, the cattle, the cattle, mother. He herded the cattle, that slave. They are in the kraal." Slavery was common place in this region until the end of the 19th century because the YAO, on behalf of the Arabs and themselves would capture the local CHEWA and make them slaves for sale or service. Self delectative song with Sansi (Mbira)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958