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Vho Madevha thoho ludongo
- Authors: Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by) , Venda men and women (Performer) , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Takalani's homestead , Mukula , Thohoyandou -- Transvaal (Limpopo) -- South Africa , Indigenous music , Traditional music , Ngoma dza midzimu , Mirumba , Tshele , Hand rattle , Trance dance , Drums , Spiritual healing song , Molombo
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:16038 , JKC02a-13 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009227 , Tape number: JKC02 , Original tape number: 2 , Track number: 13
- Description: English translation of title: 'Madevha has a bald head' , Traditional Venda trance dance song accompanied by the ngoma dza midzimu, malombo, mirumba drums and tshele hand rattles , For further details refer to Jaco Kruger recording card: 35
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Tshifhambano ketshi mudzimu
- Authors: Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by) , Nagana, Nyawasedza (Performer) , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Malavuhe , Transvaal (Limpopo) , South Africa , Indigenous music , Traditional song , Bow , Lugube , Solo
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:15903 , JKC07b-12 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009092 , Tape number: JKC07 , Original tape number: 7 , Track number: 12
- Description: Traditional Venda song accompanied by the lugube musical bow , For further details refer to Jaco Kruger recording card: 96
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Stimela sa phuma eRhodesia
- Authors: Young men and boys of Peddie , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-05-06
- 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/10962/228117 , vital:49522 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT392-L13 , Research no. L1G4
- Description: Indigenous folk fighting song for boys, with singing and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-05-06
Simbayoka mwisale kwa limubunga (The Simbayoka is a dance for loose women)
- 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/10962/139796 , vital:37784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR051-08
- Description: "Simbayuka musiyele kwa limulanga. Simbayuka, Simbayukamusiyele kwa limulanga ngoma ya mahule omu omu shimbi Kayenge. Omu omu shimbi kayenge.". Morality song.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Sabwabwa
- Authors: Group of 5 Kete men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Katanga f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139402 , vital:37735 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-03
- Description: The slit drum is called mutumba (the canoe) and the cylindrical drum is Nguma. This group is situated between the Lunda and the Luba. A notably fierce and savage people. They come from the extreme south of the Kasai-near the Angola border. This dance was (in the old days) danced with a slave in the midst. At the final "Ho" (characteristic of the dance) the slave's head was severed at a single blow. The 3 xylophones were propped up at sn angle of about 45 degrees by small forked sticks. The resonators were either gourds or lengths of bamboo with open mirliton. The bamboo resonators were palstered with mud, presumably to stop their cracking. Each note was attached to the frame with a simple cord, but prevented from slipping by a second string attached near the node and made fast onto the frame. The insulating material on the frame was a bundle of long grass in each case. The three xylophones were called:- Dujimba devase. " dwapakadie. " dwa mukuma. Maza dance for men and women with 1 slit drum (canoe), 1 weighted cylindrical drum (Nguma), open hand beaten and 3 xylophones.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Sabwabwa
- Authors: Group of 5 Kete men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Katanga f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/242575 , vital:51057 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT509-L131 , Research no. L2Z7
- Description: Maza dance for men and women with 1 slit drum (canoe), 1 weighted cylindrical drum (Nguma), open hand beaten and 3 xylophones accompaniment.
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- Date Issued: 1957-07-24
Polan
- Authors: Paul Serebu with young Nandi men (Performer) , Composer not specified
- Subjects: Moran dance song for men , No instrumentation , Indigenous folk music , Kabsabet , Kenya
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15271 , MOA02-03 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017214 , MOA2
- Description: Moran dance song for men by Paul Serebu with young Nandi men (no instrumentation) , 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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Omukaire ayabire ha
- Authors: Boys of Busoga College , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Jinja f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171171 , vital:42026 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR140-02
- Description: "Where has the old woman gone, she has got a stick and a pipe, and she has gone to the place we have been talking about." School song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Nisiri pa Wankie (I have come to Wankie, I have cone to find money to pay my lobola)
- Authors: America Kanada , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Arts, Malawi , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Safwa (African people)--Music , Africa Malawi Tukuyu f-mw
- Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde , Safwa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151848 , vital:39179 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-04
- Description: The singer was a strange shy little man who did not even stay to hear his own songs played to the end. His second song gained rounds of applause. The burden of it was;- "I want to to go home, I am wasting my time here, I do not want to stay, I would rather desert. Please, boss, give me my money. I want to go home. Self-delectative song with Pango board zither.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ngorombe
- Authors: Several boys with Nyere flutes , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180316 , vital:43352 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-03
- Description: The Zezuru play ensembles of flutes, each player having two or three loose end blown flutes which blows in his turn interpolating his notes at the right moments in the melody after the fashion of bell ringers. The players perform a number of variations interpreting voiced notes into the sequence of pipe notes. Ngorombe flute dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Ngeniso
- Authors: Venancio Mbande , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- South Africa , Folk music , Xylophone music , Africa South Africa Wildebeesfontein f-sa
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , Sound recording material
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/95914 , vital:31214 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC042a-09
- Description: One of Venancio Mbande's new Mgodo dance song accompanied by the timbila xylophone for analysis by Andrew Tracey
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1981
Ndithi khawutiye nkwenkwe ndala
- Authors: Young boys of Durban location , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-05-06
- 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/10962/228144 , vital:49525 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT393-L14 , Research no. L1G10
- Description: A mbayizelo dance song accompanied by clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-05-06
Ndithi khawuthiye nkwenkwe ndala (Please dance, big boy)
- Authors: Young men and boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150652 , vital:38993 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-11
- Description: The roaring or grunting in this dance song is a sound peculiar to the Xhosa. The Luo and Giriyama of Kenya also do it and some of the East Coast Swahili, notably in their religious songs. It is possibly a vestigial remain of Arab influence acquired during the tribe's sojourn in East Africa some 500 years ago. Mbayizelo dance song, with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ndembo ya Kumilanzi
- Authors: Mugabe with Hehe Men , Composer not Specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-06-14
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Iranga f-sa
- Language: Hehe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/219270 , vital:48495 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR1492 , XYZ6158a
- Description: Hunting song accompanied by clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-06-14
Na rine ri ya Lupepe
- 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 , Tshigombela dance , Dance song
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:15651 , JKC02a-04 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008840 , Tape number: JKC02 , Original tape number: 2 , Track number: 04
- Description: English translation of title: 'We are going to Lupepe' , 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: 26
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Mwafwala pendeka ninwe balikweba
- Authors: Kateneka, Jemusi , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-08-17
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Not specified f-za
- Language: Lala-Bisa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/208685 , vital:47297 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT081-C97 , Research no. C4J7
- Description: Not Specified.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-08-17
Msitso wo wombidi. 2nd Movement
- Authors: Ngodo of Regulo Canda , Chipendani Guyuza (Leader) , Solomon Semendi , 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/10962/192703 , vital:45252 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR202-09
- Description: Led by the composer Solomon Semendi, this Msitso approximates in style the Msitso of Komukomu of Regulo Banguza, who died recently. Orchestral dance with 22 Timbila xylophones - 6 Chilanzane (Treble), 5 Sange (Alto), 5 Doli (Tenor), 3 Debiinda (Bass), 3 Gulu (Double Bass).
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- Date Issued: 1963
Meu Amor Era Aviador
- Authors: Manjacaziana, Grupo , Composer not Specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-11-02
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Maputo f-sa
- Language: Portuguese
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/219358 , vital:48507 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR1314 , XYZ6125
- Description: Rumba dance band song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-11-02
Marola Bila Kile
- Authors: Richard Majafe , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Zeerust f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165868 , vital:41290 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-11
- Description: Four boys initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mamosi oa Theoloa ke mang? (Who will bring Mamosi down?
- Authors: Mapheelo Maklelebe and large group of Sotho women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161349 , vital:40619 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-08
- Description: "Who will bring Mamosi down? The 'municipality' is the wizard of the whites. He has brought the railway train into 'Naesifili'. At my home at Majara Leshoboro's place. Smoke drifts far away out in the veld. I have no Chief, I am ruled by a woman. Mother Mantsala, give me food. When horses race for prizes, yours runs for nothing. My family is disappointed with Mateseliso. It does not like people who cover their heads with cloth. I have not come here to see you, I have come to condole with you." The 'Municipality', they explained, is looked upon as a single person, a person of wealth who can do things rather like the Government. Mokibo women's kneeling dances, with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959