A pongozi mbanonoko
- Authors: Nancy Luhoma , Mwenela Kaunda , 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/10962/185190 , vital:44338 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-17
- Description: In the this song one of the girls pounding became quite breathless with the effort and she could hardly sing the response. "My husband's people are difficult." Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Amahule Asidiph Emlanjeni
- Authors: Dargie, Dave , Ngqoko Herd Boys
- Date: 1981-10-24
- 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/10962/258784 , vital:53017 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD025-02
- Description: Church music, church hyms, Choral music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1981-10-24
Belebe la yee-lo!
- Authors: Dlamini, Cushane , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-29
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/248829 , vital:51730 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT564-M16 , Research no. M2E3
- Description: A lament for a man who abandoned a women accompanied by the makweyana bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-03-29
Belebe la yee-lo! (He is far, far away)
- Authors: Cushane Dlamini (woman of about 24 years) , 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/10962/152823 , vital:39346 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-10
- Description: The fingering was done by stopping the lower segment (the higher fundamental) with the back of the first and second fingers together. The song is a lament for the man who has abondoned her. Lament with Makweyana musical bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Belebe la yee-lo! (He is far, far away)
- Authors: Cushane Dlamini (woman of about 24 years) , 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/10962/152818 , vital:39345 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-10
- Description: The fingering was done by stopping the lower segment (the higher fundamental) with the back of the first and second fingers together. The song is a lament for the man who has abondoned her. Lament with Makweyana musical bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Eto, hangane maha
- Authors: Miliya Bukulane , Rude Wache , Amelia Faduko , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Canda f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193276 , vital:45317 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-11
- Description: Note the change of rhythm as third girl joins in with her pestle. The names of the three women who sang were:- Miliya Bukulane, Rude Wache, Amelia Faduko. Other women were singing in the background. Three women's pounding song, with pestles and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Halleluya
- Authors: Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1980-08-01
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mt. Ayliff f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/257051 , vital:52799 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD020-02
- Description: Indigenous music, Choral music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980-08-01
Mbancili aba, nibam nakulumba
- Authors: Nkuta, Denesi , Maswika, Lala Kate , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-29
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Northern Transvaal f-za
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/206426 , vital:47021 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT059-C60 , Research no. C3Q14
- Description: Not specified.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-29
Ombimbi
- Authors: Albertus Kangueehi and young Herero men , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ovambo (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Okahandja f-sx
- Language: Herero
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195825 , vital:45608 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR217-17
- Description: Praise chant
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
Spoken lyrics for the Mzeno movement of the Ngodo of Regulo Nyakutowo of 1955
- Authors: Ngodo of Regulo Nyakutowo , Nyakutowo, Nyampose , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1955-10-05
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala District f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225983 , vital:49280 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT363-J12 , Research no. H1N2a
- Description: Orchestral dance song for the Mchuio movement of the Ngodo of Regulo Nyakutowo of 1955. Indigenous folk song with singing, brief, intermittent whistling, 10 xylophones and 4 rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-10-05
Tiye tuluka mwanawe (Come, come out, child)
- 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/10962/154037 , vital:39556 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-09
- Description: "Come, come out you child. Come, come outside, that the people may see you. Don't you hear now? Why don't you come? If you were a bird you could have flown away. The year when my father died I did not wail. What must I do? What is it child? The fish eagle wailed, a bird of the heavens. He died at Cilanga. Come out child, there are people oustide." It is suggested that this song refers to a girl being shy after her initiation or 'coming out' into public life as a young woman. Self delectative song with Sansi (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ubongilobola
- 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's Kraal f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/224793 , vital:49147 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT345-H11 , Research no. H1E7B
- Description: Self delectative song with Makhweyana braced musical bow accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-01-28
Ungcwele
- Authors: Choir , Kolisi, G. M. , Huwiler, Kurt , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mount Ayliff f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/255243 , vital:52566 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD010-07
- Description: Indigenous music, Choral music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1979
Xirilo
- Authors: Magaiza, Notiso , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-05-23
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Mozambique people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Lourenco Marques f-rh
- Language: Tswa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198061 , vital:45939 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-009 , Research no. CB8
- Description: Indigenous topical folk song with singing and malimba, accompanied by mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-05-23