A Kawoko ndi ndhondo
- Authors: Chewa girls , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187344 , vital:44613 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR192-14
- Description: This dance song reflects a local tragedy. There was a certain white man, popularly called 'Kawoko', a game warden in this district, they say, who had only one hand. There had been a recent campaign to shoot baboons (in 1949) which were destroying the fields. During the shooting, they allege, he missed the baboons but shot some of the men who were driving the baboons out of the bush. The African beaters also had guns and were shooting and some say it was their eratic shooting which caused the casualities. Three men died that day and Kawoko was blamed as he was in charge of the group. He left the district shortly afterwards. Mcoma dance song for women and girls, with 2 golblet drums, one weighted and whistles (-11.515-)
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- Date Issued: 1950
A Kowoko ndi ndhondo
- Authors: Chewa girls , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-05-22
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/211271 , vital:47596 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT167-D28 , Research no. DX3
- Description: Mcoma dance song for women and girls with 2 goblet drums, one weighted and whistles accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-05-22
Abalala bafuma ili batemuna (The lover has come in the light of day)
- Authors: Group of 5 Lala men and chorus of 6 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Mkushi f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134752 , vital:37197 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-12
- Description: The music of this dance was performed without its accompanying ceremony, as it was recorded in the mine compound and not at home in the village. Nsase dance song for ceremonial dance with 1 goblet drum, pegged, hand beaten and struck bottle.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ada a Banda
- Authors: Lucy Nyamangwe , Tonga girls , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184549 , vital:44234 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-17
- Description: "My father, Banda, has gone off to work in the towns, for a long long time, to buy himself clothes." How true a reflection this is upon thousands of Tonga men in this district who go off to mines and towns for their own reasons leaving the women and children to fend for themselves at home. Many send back money, but as many others find local foreign girls and forget their home and children. Chioda dance song for young women with drum rhythm beaten on a box
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- Date Issued: 1950
Aku dewile nu wakate pwana dewile
- Authors: Zande men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-08-31
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Cite Indigene f-cg
- Language: Zande
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/222454 , vital:48869 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT322-F118 , Research no. F4V1
- Description: A song for the Zanda round dance for men and women accompanied by kponingbo xylophone , hand bells and banana stalks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-31
Antiko lakamukulu
- Authors: Boys and girls from Inkaya village , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1955-10-11
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Macia f-mz
- Language: Gitonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/226578 , vital:49350 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT369-J20 , Research no. H1R5
- Description: Indigenous folk song for the Makwaya dance, with singing and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-10-11
Bachituta panchi
- Authors: Mapulunga, William , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-10
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Chingola f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/240145 , vital:50803 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT482-L103 , Research no. L2P9
- Description: Topical song with guitar, rattle and bottle accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-10
Bachituta panchi (The defeated one)
- Authors: William Mapulanga and Friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Ruund
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139886 , vital:37803 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR052-02
- Description: "The loser in a fight is always laughed at.' Topical song with guitar, rattle and bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Bolo neno kari koongo
- Authors: Abisolom Abunda and Luo men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Kenya , Luo (Kenya and Tanzanian people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya South Nyanza Province f-ke
- Language: Luo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178819 , vital:42989 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR168-09
- Description: Bolo achieved an unenviable reputation for having neither shield nor ostrich feathers, and for being an univited guest at drinking parties. The playing drums by these Nilotic people is usually far simpler in rhythm than that of the Bantu. It appears to be essential in Luo society near Kisii to have your shield and your ostrich feathers with you when you attend a funeral. Bul dance song for men with Bunde 5 bass drums, laced and Gara leg bells (-12.55-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Calo lelo cawera
- Authors: Sapao, Davide , Henga boys , Kaluwa, Jowelo , Boma, Chintele , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-29
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Northern Transvaal f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/206348 , vital:47012 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT059-C60 , Research no. C3Q11
- Description: Not specified.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-29
Chakunaka
- Authors: Paulosi Jere , Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185795 , vital:44430 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-01
- Description: This story, told by an old woman, of the handsome young man and his jealous mother is almost identical with a similar story I found amongst the Karanga of Southern Rhodesia in 1932. The story concerns a handsome young man who wanted to get married but his jealous mother made him promise that he would not marry any girl who ate food cooked by her. Girl after girl was turned away until one discovered the secret pact, refused the mother's food and married the handsome son. The Ngoni of the Jiri clan came up through the southern regions of what became Southern Rhodesia sacking the settlement at Zimbabwe on their way. It is clear that they must have captured a girl from that region who bore her master children to whom she taught her own home stories in Karanga and they in turn handed them on to the next generation. In Bikita district Southern Rhodesia, the chorus sings:- "Tiende gore tiende gore" instead of the Ngoni in this version. "Ce ce gore, ce ce gore." Story with song
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- Date Issued: 1950
Chakwenda longono
- Authors: Sipaita, Masuwa , Yamvwa, Yamvwa , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kwawambua f-za
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/205677 , vital:46933 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT054-C55 , Research no. C3P1
- Description: Entertainment song about a chameleon for a chiefs entertainment accompanied by xylophones.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-28
Chaminuka teera wamwe (Chaminuka follows others)
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180241 , vital:43341 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-13
- Description: Chaminuka is the name given to a whole line of religious prophets who for many generations led the spiritual life and thoughts of the Karanga people. One of the Chaminuka prophets is said to have smitten the waters of the Zambezi so that the river parted. The Karanga people came over dry foot. His soul, they say, first flew across the river in the form of a dove. Towards the end of the song, the singer breaks into the local patois, representing a conversation between him and a 'Mujoni'. a policeman on a horse. Humorous song with Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Chinyau
- Authors: Chewa men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-05-20
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/211013 , vital:47567 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT167-D28.1 , Research no. DV12b
- Description: Kacipapa dance song, Mask dance, danced for obsequies of a dead chief or headman with 2 goblet drums and 2 tall cylindrical drums accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-05-20
Chinyau
- Authors: Chewa men and women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187326 , vital:44605 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR192-12
- Description: The mask of the male dancer consists of a headpiece covered with sheep's wool, crowned with guibea-fowl feathers and a rag costume of sacking. The male dancer may not approach near the women hence the distance away of the singing chorus. Four drummers provide the rhythm and the assembled women sing the chorus. Kacipapa is the name of the mask in which the principal dancer dances, and gives its name to the dance itself, a ,ask dance. The masked man sings in a feigned falsetto, voice in order to hide his identity from the crowd. The names of the two drums were:- Mpanje-the tall drum; and Mbalwe the Mtiwiso for the larger and smaller goblet drums. There appear to be several versions of the Chinyau dance in central Nyasaland. Kacipapa dance song, Mask dance, danced for obsequies of a dead chief or headman with 2 goblet drums and 2 tall cylindrical drums
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- Date Issued: 1950
Chinyau
- Authors: Chewa men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-05-20
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/210980 , vital:47564 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT167-D28.1 , Research no. DV12a
- Description: Kacipapa dance song, Mask dance, danced for obsequies of a dead chief or headman with 2 goblet drums and 2 tall cylindrical drums accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-05-20
Chisankunta ku michila ya nama
- Authors: Luunda men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-18
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kwawambua f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/203997 , vital:46728 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-042 , Research no. C3G1
- Description: A dance song for Wakubasha dance accompanied by drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-18
Darabo wabandi mashef wetu Bekenga (They are putting up the flag for Chief Bakenga)
- Authors: Large group of Kasai women and 6 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Central Kasai f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137867 , vital:37568 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-03
- Description: Chief Bakenga had been made a Paramount Chief, and the song alludes to this event. Mambala dance with 4 goblet drums, closed, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons and 4 singing gourds (-11.13-)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Fyacitile ba kapele
- Authors: Bemba boys , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-18
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kwawambua f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/203979 , vital:46725 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-042 , Research no. C3F8
- Description: Dance song for Zomba dance accompanied by drums and sticks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-18
Fyacitile bamuna
- Authors: Girls at Mbereshi , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-18
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kwawambua f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/203970 , vital:46724 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-042 , Research no. C3F7
- Description: A dance song for Zomba dance accompanied by drums and sticks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-18