Obw’omugabe Gasyonga II yagwara ekirunga
- Authors: Rusania and Nkole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbarara f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169979 , vital:41844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-03
- Description: Song sung at the installation of the present (1950) Mugabe as head of all the Ankole. Mugabe Gasyonga II. The manner in which this song is sung gives impression that both the style and the words belong to an era of Hima conquest, when the Nkole first came from the north. Installation of a Chief.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Mpyaile entongo
- Authors: Atanasi Gamanya with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Bukoba f-tz
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172595 , vital:42225 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-11
- Description: "I have planted my seeds and if I reap six of them it will be enough." "Should anyone steal my crops I would be very hungry." This item was recorded by a group of Haya men who were working on the diamond mines near Shinyanga at Mwadui. Like several other Haya items it gives the impression of having strong affinity if not its origin with Arab music. Ngoma yawakazi dance song for women, with metal cylindrical laced drum.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nzaireki akatera empihi
- Authors: Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169934 , vital:41840 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-18
- Description: Nzaireki is held up to ridicule for being a glutton. He ate far too much and was sick all night. Enough, in Bunyoro, as elsewhere, is as good as a feast. The drum and rattles perform in a rhythm typical of much of Bantu Africa. Orunyege dance song for men and women with Ebinyege leg rattles and Goblet drum long stem pegged open.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Yarunga Rukanzi
- Authors: Kabyoma Mashulamo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kagya Nugabo / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172253 , vital:42180 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-04
- Description: "Rukanzi is is now visiting." This refers to the late chief Weikiza of the present chief Garikani, who made a habit of visiting his people in their own homes. It was a gesture much appreciated by the people. The deep breathing of the elderly singer can be clearly heard throughout. Praise song with Nanga trough Zither.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Ali Majengo
- Authors: Kyomile Kabanyolekile with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171926 , vital:42139 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-04
- Description: "My love is in Majengo." (the red light district of Bukoba). The great social problem of Bukoba (1950) is the general laxity of morals which followed up on the rise in thier standard of living through the planting of coffee. Men and women alike have lost their standards of recent years. Sung while paddling out to lay nets. The cries are the traditional cries are the traditional cries of the fishermen out on the lake. Paddling song with conical laced drum, beaten with sticks and clapping (-12.03-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nzaireki akatera empihi
- Authors: Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169925 , vital:41839 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-18
- Description: Nzaireki is held up to ridicule for being a glutton. He ate far too much and was sick all night. Enough, in Bunyoro, as elsewhere, is as good as a feast. The drum and rattles perform in a rhythm typical of much of Bantu Africa. Orunyege dance song for men and women with Ebinyege leg rattles and Goblet drum long stem pegged open.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Mauwa (Flowers)
- Authors: Abugu Kisukwe and Bamba men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bundibugyo f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170400 , vital:41917 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-04
- Description: "There was a girl I loved dearly. But someone else went and married her." The three Likembe Mbira called Ntoyo and Namurito were of three sizes. The resonating boxes being of remarkable length, 15 inches long by 5 inches broad. The singers were all convicts from the local gaol let out for the occasion. Topical song with 3 Likembe x11 notes.
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- Date Issued: 1950