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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

Ama Baadu Nduyangu

Inkuntse

Musikana wanga

Ketelina (Ketelina, come to me

Ha lura vhu adunga>

U Mama Wami

Mbaya mwana wane bamutya cimbwe (Mbaya, my child, is called a hyena)

  • Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140216 , vital:37849 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-06
  • Description: A man who was working away from home on the Copper Mines, had a girl sent to him to marry from his own village. But when she arrived she was so ugly he said: "Marry you, never! You look like a hyena!" So the girl went back and told her mother who rushed out of the house shouting to her husband in great hanger: "My child Mbaya has been called a hyena!" From what the Welfare officers say, it appears that this situation is a common experience on the Copperbelt where girls are frequently sent by their parents to get themselves married to their absent young men on the mines, with the same painful rebuff if not acceptable. Humorous song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Abakhe babonana

Abafana

Nzaireki Akatera Empihi

Lako (Lako, place name)

Finjelengwe

Nzaireki akatera empihi

Ali Majengo

Tsholoza

  • Authors: Group of Xhosa/Gcaleka women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Willowvale f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136151 , vital:37343 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-11
  • Description: This song is sung, they said, by the women for the boys to dance at night. Women's dance for clapping at night iside the hut, with clapping.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Ndamuramba

Nakwambia nakupenda

  • Authors: Obiero, Lang , Omina, Nashou , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1952-06-01
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Not specified f-ke
  • Language: Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/217171 , vital:48254 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT296-F62 , Research no. F3F10
  • Description: Love song accompanied by three guitars and rattle.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952-06-01

Dipsy doodle

Iduma lya gebuza (The gash-the cut)

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