Amatsotsie mama amaononge chalo
- Authors: Cisenga, D , Chungu, B , Musonda, F , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-06
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mulfulira f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/237671 , vital:50541 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT471-L92 , Research no. L2M12
- Description: A morality song about the tsotsies accompanied by guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-06
Bulu sondela
- Authors: Young men of Kalana location , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-05-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa King Williams town f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/227767 , vital:49485 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT387-L8 , Research no. L1D6
- Description: A dance song for girls and boys accompanied by the concertina only when there are no girls to sing to boys.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-05-02
Buyani Sangweni (Come to the gate)
- Authors: Elderly men of Chief Njolomole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza and Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154865 , vital:39787 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-07
- Description: The old Nguni fighting song calls out the men of the village to come and fight, having had the good wishes and blessing of the Isangoma, the woman diviner, assuring them of victory like the prophets of Baal in the Bible story "Go up and prosper." "Ayaye Eye! Come to the gate. There goes the diviner. Yes we hear! What kind of a thing is this and how have you heard it from the wife of a man. It is right, it is right, we agree. Regimental song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Bwelela
- Authors: Rabison Bande , Chewa men , Hugh Tracey
- 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/10962/186380 , vital:44492 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-12
- Description: There is still sufficient game in this district to lend meaning to hunting songs. Lions are not uncommon and two lion skins had recently been brought for the chief. A second leader took over at a slightly flatter pitch and the chorus of men adjusted themselves at once to the new level. Hunting song (after hunting) with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Che Chipala
- Authors: Ganiziechi, Chimwala , Lokote, Mwamadi , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Kariba f-rh
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/246131 , vital:51442 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT540-L161 , Research no. L3L5
- Description: A praise song for the chief about the chief having a sense of justice accopmanied by a bangwe board zither and resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-08
Chilongozi waulende wamoyo zina lake Yesu
- 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/10962/211563 , vital:47628 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT181-D40.2 , Research no. D2E35
- Description: Hymn with Bangwe Raft zither, 7 strings accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-05-29
Chilongozi waulende wamoyo zina lake Yesu
- Authors: Aliki Chipupa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184839 , vital:44277 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-04
- Description: Aliki Chipupa the composer of this hymn was a minister in the Church of Scotland at the Bandwe Mission near the lake, and a friend of the blind singer. Beti set it to the Bangwe although at the mission it was always sung unaccompanied. When the recording was played back all the people standing around joined in, the old man Beti singing a seconf part to his own music. As with many African hymns in which the vernacular translation fails to be encompased by the standard number of bars, this hymn demonstrates a free scansion of the lines. (5 plus 6 plus 5 plus 4 bars). Hymn with Bangwe Raft zither, 7 strings
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Eya mulanda kankola kami (I like my girl)
- Authors: Group of 6 Lunda men. Leader: Conguboyi Ntambo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilungu f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139319 , vital:37726 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-10
- Description: "If a man has a girl he loves and she has gone away, he must sing this song in order to remember her.". Sikinta party dance song with 2 struck bottles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Eya! Ho!
- Authors: Chief Buthelezi and his tribesmen and women , Tshanibezwe , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1955-01-27
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Buthelezi f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/224213 , vital:49080 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT341-H7 , Research no. H1D9
- Description: Unaccompanied regimental song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-01-27
Eyo! ho!
- Authors: Chief Buthelezi and his Tribesmen and Women (Performers) , Tshanibezwe (composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Mahlabatini f-za
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133416 , vital:36974 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-03
- Description: Regimental song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
God is liefde
- Authors: Composer Not Specified , Epukiro Folk , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1981-05-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Nambia Epukiro f-sx
- Language: Afrikaans
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/262119 , vital:53483 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD031-10
- Description: Indigenous music, Church Songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1981-05-02
Kantende maninga
- Authors: 8 Luba men with Nyundu Gabriel (flute) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137695 , vital:37551 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-04
- Description: "Aminai, munasei, aminai." This somewhat unusual piece of music has a single ground provided by the Kisanzhi (mbira) with an interesting flute obligato followed by a simple sung line of "Aminai, munasei, aminai." Praise song for a Chief with 1 chisanzhi mbira, 1 side-blown dilele munenge tranverse flute, a voiced note and tapped wood.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kariala
- Authors: Wambu, Johnnie Murithe , Waita, Kibunga , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-06-01
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Not specified f-ke
- Language: Kikuyu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/217451 , vital:48284 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT296-F62 , Research no. F3H2
- Description: Love song accompanied by three guitars and rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-06-01
Kugama I
- Authors: Zegbe , Ndongo men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-07-31
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Amasu f-cg
- Language: Efe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/218737 , vital:48431 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT313-F91 , Research no. F4D2
- Description: Indigenous topical folk song with singing, accompanied by a domo (5-stringed horizontal harp), sese (rattles) and a lisanzo.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-07-31
Kuklala pafupi (If it was near)
- Authors: Nazaro Ngoma and Chewa men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Pemba, Salima, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153615 , vital:39487 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-10
- Description: "Let me drink and go, father, and make me a witness myself." The cheerful confusion of this drinking song is typical of the country, and the meaning of the words is obsecure. It is suggested that it refers to death and the fact that did they but know what happened after death they would accompany the dead. "If it was only close by where my father went I would go with him, indeed, I would go with him.". Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kwela siya hamba (Let's go)
- Authors: Young men of Tuku's Location , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135862 , vital:37305 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR026-12
- Description: Mbayizelo dance with Harmonica.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Machi
- Authors: Wambu, Johnnie Murithe , Waita, Kibunga , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-06-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Not specified f-ke
- Language: Kikuyu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/217318 , vital:48270 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT296-F62 , Research no. F3H1
- Description: Love song accompanied by three guitars and rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-06-08
Machi
- Authors: Wambu, Johnnie Murithe , Waita, Kibunga , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-06-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Not specified f-ke
- Language: Kikuyu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/217323 , vital:48269 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT296-F62 , Research no. F3H1
- Description: Love song accompanied by three guitars and rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-06-08
Mahobahobo (The weaver-bird)
- Authors: Group of Xhosa women and Notembile and Nopenrose , 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/10962/136082 , vital:37335 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR028-05
- Description: The women listened very intently to the playback of their song and laughed when the baby's voice was heard in the recording. Self-delectative song with Hadi musical bow, unbraced, open and resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Maiko ledi
- Authors: Kimambo Brothers , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-05-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Moshi f-tz
- Language: Rombo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/216759 , vital:48208 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT291-F57 , Research no. F3E4
- Description: Morality song accompanied by two guitars.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-05-28