Lengae
- Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Sotho men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134010 , vital:37059 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-08
- Description: Post-circumcision song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Luimbo lwa chlia
- Authors: Performer not specified , Edward Kalunga (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lala (African people) , Africa South Africa Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133669 , vital:37002 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR014-01
- Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele mbira fan-shaped, with external resonator and mirliton
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mwana wa Maqo (The son of Maqo)
- Authors: Josiah Muyambo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Africa Mozambique Sipungabera f-mz
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151985 , vital:39200 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR067-02
- Description: "The son of Maqo ran away from the cotton planting. If you do not beleive me go and ask Maqo himself. I am the son of Ndanjana and my grandfather is Rice." The Portuguese authorities insisted upon the planting of a certain proportion of native fields with a cash crop such as cotton. This means that African males, who normally do not take part in agriculture, leaving it all to the women, were now forced to work in the fields to tend the cotton crops. Several young men went off in search of work elesewhere to avoid their obligations. The name Maqo is a relic from Zulu/Shangaan intrusion as there are no clicks in the local Ndau language. Topical song with mbira dza waNdau with bell, external resonator and 2 manuals.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Namakawu-wo misali kunyala Liwali (Namakwawu was married to 2 husbands)
- 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/10962/139747 , vital:37777 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR051-04
- Description: The woman Namakawu was a polyandrist and carried on a successful liaison with 2 men until she was at last found out. Siamboka dance with 2 Milupa conical drums, pegged, open, hand beaten.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndazenza udalala uegxagxa
- Authors: Nontwintwi and Annie Macholweni (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133605 , vital:36995 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR013-08
- Description: Self-delactative song with Hadi bow, unbraced, open string and resonated
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndenda ndofira Joni (I go to die in Johannesburg)
- Authors: Penisera Matabeya and Majuta Sitole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Topical songs , Africa Mozambique Espungabera f-mz
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136261 , vital:37355 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR029-09
- Description: The flute blower kept his right ear covered with his hand whilst he played. He also sang voiced notes while he blew the flute. Self-delectative song with Mulanji transverse flute, closed at both ends, with 2 holes at far end of mouth hole.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Shiwifulunganye ifunde (Thou shall not interfere with the law of the Sabbath)
- Authors: Bancroft 7th Day Adventist Choir , Arr. Sankey and Moody , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Hymns, Bemba , Africa Zambia Bancroft Mine f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135490 , vital:37271 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-11
- Description: The hymn is typical of those which are now being compiled by separatist congregations. Most of the melodies have been absorbed, digested and handed on in the oral folk tradition, so that it is now nearly impossible to trace their parentage. With each succeeding generation they appear to become more and more African in spirit and execution. 2 Hymns
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tubuke ku kaya (Let's go home, I do not want to spend all my money on the Kasai ladies)
- 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/10962/151857 , vital:39180 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-05
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Uruchantege
- Authors: Group of Hutu drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Kishuyi f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183625 , vital:44016 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-07
- Description: The drums are not the normal drums used in Ruanda (Rwanda) but substitutes. The timekeeper was playing on the same head as the leader which is not correct, in the villages each man having his own drum. The click of sticks can consequently be heard as they strike each other. The players were a small informal group of Hutu miners over 600 miles from home working at the Kolwezi Copper Mine. Yet home style drumming was their particular joy and constant recreation. At approximately 3 minutes, they appear to change to the Urukina tatoo. This tatoo underlines again the fundamental difference of apprach to drumming between the Hima and the Bantu. Although the Hutu speak a Bantu language and are originally of Bantu descent there is widespread intermarriage between them and the Hima overlords, the Tutsi, and the Hima attitude to music and drumming appears to have persisted. Three drum rhythms, three laced conical drums
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957