Chisisi zano rine godo
- Authors: M. Runesu Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154159 , vital:39615 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR080-06
- Description: This singer makes up all his accompaniments for his humorous songs and sketches which are in the true line of rombe minstrel material. "Little sister, your idea is a jealous one. I go fetch firewood, you brought back ants. I go to the stream, you brought back dirty water, I go pound, you grind very coarsely, I go to cook, you cook undercooked food, I go to cut, you cut off to much, I go to take relish, you make it all dirty, I go to work in the fields, you go for young men, I go to wash clothes, you remain dirty, Little sister, your idea is a jealous one. Chisisi is taken from the English word 'sister' with the Karanga dimunitive 'chi'. Story song with Mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Pfeni nengoma
- Authors: Muchaenda Sigauke and Ndau men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Melsetter f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181688 , vital:43758 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-01
- Description: There was a man who had the brilliant idea of putting a pole across the path by which a baboon entered his fields, and a drum on the far side. The baboon leaping over the pole landed on the drum and did a back somersault over the pole again. The sound so delighted the baboon that he went on leaning and back somersaulting until he died of exhaustion. Story with song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
Rungano (The story of the younger brother)
- Authors: Farai Takawarasha and Ncube Shoko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154558 , vital:39746 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-08
- Description: There were once two brothers who were both herdboys. The elder incited the younger to fight him. While they were fighting the elder brother tired and the younger brother beat him. So the elder brother ran away leaving the younger brother to bring home the cattle. The younger brother thought that their fight was over, but at midnight when he was already in bed he heard a knock at the door and found his older brother standing there. "What do you want?" "I would like to fight again" he replied. So they set to. Again the elder brother was defeated and during the fight they broke the windows and furniture. Early in the morning the elder brother returned and found the younger brother eating mealies, and the younger brother never suspected that the elder brother was eager to fight the third time. He offered the elder brother some mealies but he said he was still dissatisfied with the result of the fight. So they fought again a third time and again and again for six matches, until the younger brother decided he must leave the villgae for good. So he left his home and that was the end of the story. Rungano story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Whistling Language
- Authors: Didmas Murigwa and Muyapi Mutema , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Umtali f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180547 , vital:43400 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-13
- Description: The second small boy, in the whistling item with words, sometimes forgot to whistle the full sentence as he was so carried away by his own repartee. This recording was taken eighteen months later than the previous item. There is first a whistling conversation between two small boys about ten yards apart, and then another conversation ith spoken explanations of the sentences whistled. They bandy small boy's ruderies at each other, hence the laughter from the others. The recording is somewhat marred by tape echo.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949