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Akaizari mbanda yasila (The Mbanda dance is finished)

Ali mu Club

  • Authors: Nawandala Social Club , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Iganga f-ug
  • Language: Soga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171274 , vital:42039 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR140-12
  • Description: This song encourages women to join social clubs. "Everyone" they sing "should join a club because by coming together they would be able to help each other and be happy." Sung by a singing club of Soga women. The emacipation of many Soga women is on its way, as illustrated by many social clubs run by women such as this. Exhortations, with 1 laced, conical drum played with sticks, and clapping (-12.03-).
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Ansati lwe u nganaye

Awe wedikoyoyo (No meaning)

  • Authors: Pearson Kapeni , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153788 , vital:39522 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-03
  • Description: "The women of Dowa desire very much to drink beer. Their work indeed is to drink beer. The women of Dowa, their work is to sell flour and flat cakes. And when they get home their marriage is broken. The women of Msoci, their work is to love the market place. And they was on Saturday only." I, Pearson Kapeni have troubles in the country of Dowa. This country hates me, why does it hate me? The reference to washing on Saturday is appreciated when one remembers that Saturday is market day in Dowa when the women put on their best clothes. The song struck home as it was true. Topical song with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Awoli a legimenti

  • Authors: Tumbuka women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185141 , vital:44332 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-11
  • Description: "Soilders wives, take care of your clothes, you may have to dispose of some of them to buy yourselves food." A poignant little song which reflects the experience of war wives (1939-45). It has an attractive melody in the chorus. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Benu

  • Authors: Maluba Mwale , Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chiundasi f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184689 , vital:44249 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-13
  • Description: "What am I going to tell them? Where am I going to complain? I am singing like a church organ." Benu is the name of a jumping action in the dance. This instrument was particulary well played and well made of its kind. The one stringed lute appears to come from the upper Nile and has not been found south of Nyasaland and the Zambesi valley. Chioda dance song for young women with Karigo one stringed lute
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Busumbu

  • Authors: Isaka Kitutu , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
  • Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169421 , vital:41748 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-02
  • Description: The Busumbu phosphate mines employ many Europeans, Indians and Africans. But what phosphate is used for is a bit of a mystery to the native miners. It is of course, a most important fertiliser. What it will be used for , they sing, will be known. In the meanwhile labourers are many, Europeans, Indians and Africans. The tapping of the players heel on the ground can be heard throughout this recording. Usually the players of these lyres wear an anklet of metal iron bells on that leg. The Gisu cannot be said to be the best exponents of the lyre but they belong to the Nilotic tradition of playing. Topical song with seven string Litungu lyre and leg bells.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Chikurupini

Diyele wane

  • Authors: Japhiti Zimba , 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/10962/185114 , vital:44329 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-08
  • Description: The Kalimba, they say, is a comparatively new to this district and people. They have recently begun to learn it from the Nsenga at Fort Jameson where this player had gone to work on a Europen farm there in 1922. "You always call me 'dear' with your mouth, but what kind of 'dear' is this if you do not let me sleep with you?" This is a pleasnt little melody set against an appropriate accompaniment. The player's old voice does not do his own melody credit, as so often happens among folk singers, and it should be performed by a younger person to bring out its virtue. Love song with Kalimba Mbira (nine notes)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ewe rono yangu (You are my heart)

Gwebelele

Hadithi ya umbu (The story of the mosquito)

Have you seen me on TV

Ho ya-yo

  • Authors: Binana Naibara with Arusha men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Maasai (African people) , Songs, Maasai , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Arusha f-tz
  • Language: Masai
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174012 , vital:42431 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR153-14
  • Description: "Teren angite matalebo." "Bring the cow that I may milk her near the water. Do not leave my place, my love. Stay here and keep me constant company." The love song of a nomadic pastrolist. Different women take over the lead during the song. Osingolis Longoroyo love song.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Hugh Tracey memorial service

  • Authors: Gambo Khumalo (Speaker) , Tracey, Andrew T N
  • Date: 1977
  • Subjects: Tracey, Hugh , Memorial service , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Saronde Farm f-sa
  • Language: English
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/112607 , vital:33625 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC129a-04
  • Description: Gambo Khumalo paying tribute to Hugh Tracey on behalf of workers, stating their good working relationship with their master as they called Hugh Tracey and also mentioning Hugh Tracey's close relationship with Tshabalala and Daniel Mabuto who travelled with him all over Africa
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  • Date Issued: 1977

Hungry people in the streets

I'm praying for the world

Ihlobo

Inyama ne papa

Iyongilo kalamitap kokoek (The Kikuyu's pen)

  • Authors: Kiptui Arap Moroko with Nandi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Mijikenda (African people) , Nandi (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapsabet f-ke
  • Language: Nandi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176752 , vital:42747 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR163-11
  • Description: "Kikuyu's pen." The Moran is the attractive Nandi dance where they link arms in a circle and step sideways to the music while others enter the ring and leap like a coiled spring straight into the air. It requires few words to keep the rhythm going. The words in this case, they said, had little meaning referring possibly to pen weilded by a certain Kikuyu clerk. They rise steadily in pitch during the song. Moran dance song for men.
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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