Akweni (Sister I am tired)
- Authors: Chewa women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chadza, Lilongwe District, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153509 , vital:39460 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-22
- Description: The woman reports to her sister-in-law that her husband is not good as he beats her every day. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ataka yobaki yo awowa
- Authors: Kazim, Mwatimu Abudala , Swahili and Ngwana women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-08-14
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Not specified f-za
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/208317 , vital:47256 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT076-C92 , Research no. C4G20
- Description: Girls circumcision ceremony.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-08-14
Bo Sekata yaya
- Authors: Mandola, Filimoni , Nkoya men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-08-15
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Not specified f-za
- Language: Nkoya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/208353 , vital:47260 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT077-C93 , Research no. C4H3
- Description: Not Specified.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-08-15
Chawayawaya Chipuwa
- Authors: Group of Nsenga women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-05-17
- 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/10962/230279 , vital:49762 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT441-L62 , Research no. L2A10
- Description: Indigenous topical folk song with unaccompanied singing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-05-17
Chigama ni michango
- Authors: Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195120 , vital:45530 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR210-07
- Description: When this item was recorded in 1949 cotton was a new crop which the authorities were encouraging the Chopi to grow. Depots for the collection and sale of cotton were set up throughout the district. It was one of the cash crops which helped to raise the local standard of living in Chopi countryside. Work song for carrying cotton to the depot.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Chitotwane
- Authors: Chitokiso, Natiawane , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/200853 , vital:46286 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-024 , Research no. CR23
- Description: Indigenous folk song with singing, clapping and a mixture of background cries and yodelling, accompanied by whistling.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-08
Hlungulwana (A small hawk)
- Authors: Group of Xhosa women and Notembile and Nopenrose , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136069 , vital:37334 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-04
- Description: The words are simple and repetitive, the 'magic' of these quite songs for the Xhosa lies in thier repetitive and drowsy charm,conducing to dreaming, either waking or asleep. Self-delectative song with Hadi musical bow, unbraced, open and resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Iyaze mwangu cata
- Authors: Chinyama, Musumal , Luvala men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-08-06
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Not specified f-za
- Language: Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/207608 , vital:47160 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT070-C74 , Research no. C3Y1a
- Description: Not Specified.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-08-06
Iye mwa tinamine mpenta
- Authors: Litabisha, Chekisoni , 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: Lenje
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/208603 , vital:47287 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT080-C96 , Research no. C4J4
- Description: Not Specified.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-08-17
Iye Nwelu aluba lupili ngantele-tuka
- Authors: Lumbwe, Bwalya , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-08-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Not specified f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/209086 , vital:47342 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT085-C101 , Research no. C4Q2
- Description: Not specified.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-08-24
John Owade
- Authors: Ogalo Mirasi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Kenya , Luo (Kenya and Tanzanian people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kisumu f-ke
- Language: Luo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178751 , vital:42983 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR168-03
- Description: "I have an uncle, John Owade, who is the nicest man on earth. He bought me all my clothes and many other things as well--bless him."The box is struck with the iron and the iron is sounded with an nail or small bolt. Praise song, with Orotu one string lute sound box (-12.16-) and iron (-12.151-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Kad ja-anannasru min vabbina
- Authors: Said, Mwalimu Fanaji Bin , Arab children , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-10-13
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Not specified f-ke
- Language: Arabic
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/213258 , vital:47812 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT230-D152 , Research no. D7N1
- Description: A school greeting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-10-13
Kamusombo wayaya (The tree)
- Authors: Group of 6 Luvale men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luvale (African people) , Folk music , Folk dance music--Angola , Africa Angola Dilolo f-ao
- Language: Luvale/Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137286 , vital:37506 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR036-14
- Description: "There was a certain a certain woman sitting under a tree who said that ever if her husband chased her away she could still take shelter beneath the tree." It looks as if the woman had the better of the affair in the end. The style of singing, so typically Luvale, appears to be most casual and impromptu were it not for the clear understanding between the performers. Kukina and Wangoma dance song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kela menda bakela milonga
- Authors: Tonga women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-06-23
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Zambezi Valley f-za
- Language: Tonga (Zambia)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/233647 , vital:50114 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT455-L76 , Research no. L2E11
- Description: A song singing for rain performed only at a special ceremony accompanied by kulumbo bow and sticks struck together.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-06-23
Kugama II
- Authors: Zegbe , Ndongo men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-07-31
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Amasu f-cg
- Language: Efe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/218752 , vital:48433 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT313-F91 , Research no. F4D3
- Description: Indigenous topical folk song with singing, accompanied by a domo (5-stringed horizontal harp), sese (rattles) and a lisanzo.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-07-31
Letai mato muno mwapila kalenge
- Authors: Luunda men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-19
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kasembe, Kwawambua f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/204316 , vital:46771 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-045 , Research no. C3G18
- Description: A hunting song for Amabila hunting dance accompanied by drums and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-19
Mauwa inwindu : muindu
- Authors: Musique Militaire du Primier Groupment, Force Publique , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-07
- 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/10962/202904 , vital:46586 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-034 , Research no. C2U4
- Description: A marching song accompanied by a brass band and trumpets.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-07
Mwe baiyashi cenjeleni
- Authors: Kabishi, B , Mwenya, D , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-06
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mulfulira f-za
- Language: Aushi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/237639 , vital:50537 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT471-L92 , Research no. L2M10
- Description: A morality song about warning parents to bring children up carefully.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-06
Mwe baiyashi cenjeleni (My parents take care)
- Authors: B. Kabushi and D. Mwenya , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Mufulira Copper Mine f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151707 , vital:39162 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-04
- Description: This is a warning to bring up their children carefully or they will go to the bad. "I have 2 children, the boy is a 'tsotsi' (vagabond) and the girl is a Kapenta (a painted one) so I have given birth to 2 useless children." Mortality sing with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndamwano dale anga
- Authors: Soldiers of Batalhao Indigena de Cacadores , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-09-20
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Tete f-mz
- Language: Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/210065 , vital:47457 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT115-C133 , Research no. C5R1
- Description: Indigenous folk song for the Kuba dance for men and women, with unaccompanied singing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-09-20