Bugenda kilo
- Authors: Bangilana Nduhila with Zinza men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nyalulungo f-tz
- Language: Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172750 , vital:42276 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-09
- Description: 'You are too fond of visiting villages in search of women. One day you will meet an angry man who will hit you." The drumming is similar to that found over the border in Ruanda-Urundi (Rwanda), but the singing is not. Kilongo dance song for men and women, with 3 conical laced drums played with sticks and clapping (-12.03-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Mtemi mfalume wize mpya
- Authors: Masudi Bini Amani with Nyamwezi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Itetemia f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173129 , vital:42333 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR149-02
- Description: This song, they say, was used on the occasion of the installation on March 3rd 1948 of Chief N. S. Fundikira II. The drum names are:- Ndandale; Mahuge; Ndondo; Muziki. Itetemia, the village where Chief Fundikira has his head-quaters, is the famous site of David Livinstone's tembe, the long, low, flat roofed house where he lived for a year, where he said goodbye to Stanley and from which he set out on his last jourbey to die near Lake Bangweulu. Song at the installation of Chiefs, with 3 conical laced drums beaten by sticks and 1 conical pegged drum beaten by hand.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Mtemi mfalume wize mpya
- Authors: Masudi Bini Amani with Nyamwezi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Itetemia f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173120 , vital:42334 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR149-02
- Description: This song, they say, was used on the occasion of the installation on March 3rd 1948 of Chief N. S. Fundikira II. The drum names are:- Ndandale; Mahuge; Ndondo; Muziki. Itetemia, the village where Chief Fundikira has his head-quaters, is the famous site of David Livinstone's tembe, the long, low, flat roofed house where he lived for a year, where he said goodbye to Stanley and from which he set out on his last jourbey to die near Lake Bangweulu. Song at the installation of Chiefs, with 3 conical laced drums beaten by sticks and 1 conical pegged drum beaten by hand.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Sameheni baba
- Authors: Nyamugumi Mihabo with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173300 , vital:42355 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-07
- Description: "Excuse me, father, I want to make it clear to Juma that he must not play with me, lest he die." The singers are all Nyamwezi who have come down to the East coast from the interior near Tabora and have now settled permanently at the coast in or around Dar-es-Salaam. These Nyamwezi singers of Dar-es-Salaam have an attractive way of singing their songs repeating each stanza after the soloist. This style may well have been copied from the Arabs or Swahili. Tatu Binti Ali is the young wife of Idi Selemani the organiser of the group. Hiyari ya moyo dance song for men and women..
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- Date Issued: 1950