Amati akatambe tilawe
- 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/10962/187335 , vital:44610 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR192-13
- Description: "She wanted to go dancing, but she got into trouble and could not go." The girls stand in a circle and come out in pairs prancing a few steps in the centre of the circle. They retire and the next two come out until the whole circle has been completed. It was done very gracefully. Mcoma dance song for women and girls, with 2 golblet drums, one weighted and whistles (-11.515-)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Buta bwane bwalwakanye mikasa
- 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/10962/204182 , vital:46754 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-045 , Research no. C3G16
- Description: A hunting song for the hunting dance accompanied by clapping and drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-19
Chinga tatwala
- Authors: Mufulira school Choir , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-28
- 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/10962/205864 , vital:46956 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT055-C56 , Research no. C3P9
- Description: A drinking song accompanied by clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-28
Chitengi
- Authors: Andre Boniface Wahamba and group of Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Villa Luzu f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183309 , vital:43954 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-02
- Description: "Black cloth may not be worn by a woman who is about to have a child, she may use any other coloured cloth but not black." Such simple sentences revealing local etiquette are quite enough to inspire a local dance song. The Chokwe are more renowned for their beautiful chip carving than for their music, much of it sung in organum. Chianda dance song woth Sangu rattles, leg rattles held in the hand and gourds on sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Dale wanga ghamunyenga maSotho
- Authors: Kamanga, Beti , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-05-29
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Nkhata Bay f-mw
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/211496 , vital:47621 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT180-D40 , Research no. D2E31
- Description: Topical song with Bangwe Raft Zither, 7 strings accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-05-29
Dale wanga ghamunyenga maSotho
- Authors: Beti Kamanga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184626 , vital:44242 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-07
- Description: "My darling boy has married a Sotho girl on account of her money. When we go to Johannesburg by the W.N.L.A. (Witwatersrand Native Labour Association - a large recruiting concern form mine labourers). We all talk "aha-aha!" all the time (exclamation of surprise). No less than 8,000 men from this district have left permanently in the past few years, and married foreign women in South Africa of the Rhodesias, according to the local authorities. Topical song, with Bangwe Raft Zither, 7 strings
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Dowane
- Authors: Young Chopi boys and girls with Chopi women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chpoi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198300 , vital:45965 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-011 , Research no. CL6
- Description: Indigenous folk song for children's night dance, with singing and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-02
Drum message
- Authors: Kawandami, David , 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/10962/203939 , vital:46721 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-041 , Research no. C3F4
- Description: A song explaining a message accompanied by drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-18
Farinya nimatapa
- Authors: Tonga Men and Women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-14
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Homoine District, Inhambane Province f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/202417 , vital:46518 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-030 , Research no. CX3
- Description: Indigenous folk dance song with singing, drumming, clapping and intermittent background cries, accompanied by a whistle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-14
Gloria
- Authors: Choir , Mpotulo, L , Huwiler, Kurt , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1977-12-27
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mount Ayliff f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/253160 , vital:52318 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD002-11
- Description: Indigenous music, Choral music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1977-12-27
Gombahari murume
- Authors: Wanyamande, Manyoni , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-10-11
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Gweru f-rh
- Language: Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/210160 , vital:47468 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT139-C155 , Research no. C6M10
- Description: Humorous song with Njari Mbira accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-10-11
Gombahari murume (Gombahari, the jealous husband)
- 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/10962/180250 , vital:43344 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-14
- Description: The song is typical of those which are in great demand at any party. In the old days Njari players would tour the country singing at parties as wandering minstrels, receiving gifts in food and kind and then going on to the next village. Humorous song with Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Gongondo
- Authors: Chopi women , Mwutamula , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chpoi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198242 , vital:45959 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-011 , Research no. CL3
- Description: Indigenous folk drinking song with singing and handclapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-02
Hamba Tsotsi
- Authors: Makuwana, Dakeni , Shangaan women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-05-29
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Mozambique people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Bilene Macia f-rh
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/197231 , vital:45852 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-004 , Research no. CH2
- Description: Indigenous folk song for the Masese woman's dance, with singing and clapping, accompanied by drumming.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-05-29
Ibore aari papa, ng'es kaari eong'da
- Authors: Ekacholi, Iganitiyo , Iganitiyo , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-09-04
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Tororo f-ug
- Language: Teso
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/212983 , vital:47785 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT206-D124 , Research no. D6A17
- Description: Morality song with five string Adedeu horizontal harp, clapping and leg rattles and 1 side blown Aluti horn accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-09-04
Kamonga
- Authors: Trido, Mbaya , Vinsa, Baya , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-05
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Lubumbashi, Elisabethville f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/202821 , vital:46572 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-033 , Research no. C2S20
- Description: A wedding song accompanied by xylophones, rattle, drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-05
Katela III
- Authors: Kasai men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kasai f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181964 , vital:43785 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-06
- Description: This song and the accompanying dance is performed when there is a death in the village. Katela is the generic name of this type of dance song. A number of clapping rhythms occur in these songs including:- //1, 2, 3, ; 5, ; 7, ,//. Katela funeral dance with 2 drums, conical, pegged, single, open
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kontae iya iya konta
- Authors: Kasumali, Stephen Tsotsi , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-16
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
- Language: Aushi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/241830 , vital:50973 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT499-L120 , Research no. L2V11
- Description: Topical song accompanied by guitar, clapping and vocal, about an old man giving advice to the young about getting married.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-16
Kudandaule (Don't worry)
- Authors: Mujodi Havuliwa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Lomwe (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mkanda f-mw
- Language: Lomwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160701 , vital:40502 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-16
- Description: The player is a well-known local entertainer. His Chakwana flute has two finger holes, closed at both ends and is side blown. "Do not worry. Ho-you have cried! Ho-Mother." Party song with Chakwana flute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kumenda Sanabwere (He has not come to the garden)
- Authors: Eight elderly women and two drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155793 , vital:39917 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-14
- Description: Kwakwala stayed out in his garded an did not come back into the village as they went off to see what he was doing. He was dressed only in leaves and even ate leaves. When they got to his garden he was not there but at a place where an elephant had died and he was eating it. "He has not come to the garden, I thought I might go and see. He has not come. The elephant died at Magala, I wanted to see it, Kwakwala." The gourd rattles themselves give their name Chitsukulumwe to the dance which they accompany. Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles, drums and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958