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Zwirawe

Zefaniya ngujamu Kuchina movement

You say you nor want me again

Yelina

  • Authors: Young Chewa girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160643 , vital:40488 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-09
  • Description: "Yelina, what are those charms around your waist? You have risked the life of your babee and may loose him." A young woman has been seen weaving a string of wooden beads as a charm around her waist. So the other women sing, "what has she been doing to need such a charm? The local belief is that if either the husband or wife commits adultery while the child is being born or during the time the woman is pregnant, there will be a risk of the child being still born. The charm worn in this case was taken as a sign that the mother-to-be had misbehaved herself and was trying to guard against the consequences by wearing a string of wooden beads around her waist." Dance for M'Jili with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Xylophone tune

Wola mwana

Woca mwana

Were Ojuondo

Were Ojuondo

Were ojuonda

Wena wamakhos' ezizwe

  • Authors: Group of 8 young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153037 , vital:39375 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-12
  • Description: The singers, who were sitting on the ground, all bent their heads on their folded arms while singing this song. It is the first opening movement of this dance before actully dancing. The dance itself is a variation of the Ndlamu stamping dance found all through Zululand and as far south as Thabankulu in the Transkei. "Nawe Mawati nyi Nkosi ka Hhohho. Youn men's dance. Ugunkwaya.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wena wamakhos 'ezizwe

Wena buti wena lalela

Wena Buti Lalela

Wena buti lalela

Wena Bhuti Lalela

Wamurwe

Wamurwe

  • Authors: Waliaula, Maunda , Bukusu men , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950-09-11
  • Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya City not Specified f-ke
  • Language: Bukusu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/230571 , vital:49793 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2453 , XYZ5486
  • Description: Personal feud song accompanied by 2 Litungu 7 string lyres and 1 Luhingele long inverted bowl
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  • Date Issued: 1950-09-11

Wamurwe

Wamurwe

  • Authors: Waliaula, Maunda , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Bukusu (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malakasi f-ke
  • Language: Bukusu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176508 , vital:42708 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-02
  • Description: This song is about a one man raid by Wabomba in order to get cattle for himself. He stole them from Mamurwe who was left with none. It was explained by the singers that poor Wabomba had no milk before his raid on Mamurwe and that his folk are cattle loving people. No one, it seems, wasted any sympathy on the loser. Personal feud, with 2 Litungu 7 string lyres, and 1 Luhingele long inverted bowl (-10.151-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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