8th Movement "Mabandhla"
- Authors: Katini we Nyamombe (Leader) , Komukomu, Sekalani, Bokisi, Madoshimani and Majanyana (5 players) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1943
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/194883 , vital:45506 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR209-08
- Description: For full details see "Chopi Musicians" Pages 22 to 29. Orchestral dance with six Timbila xylophones.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1943
Anare mangede udu-we
- Authors: Eungane , Mbuti people , 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/10962/218765 , vital:48434 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT314-F93 , Research no. F4D11
- Description: Indigenous melancholy folk song with singing accompanied by three lisanzo likembes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-07-31
Anatami (Mid-season)
- Authors: Group of Tonga men led by Siamungomo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138353 , vital:37625 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-01
- Description: Towards the end of the song the voice of the Chief Chepepo can be heard. "Listen boys, I have been to Gwanda, Mersima, Plumtree in Salisbury. Also I was in India." Midseason is the time between sowing and reaping the winter crops, between May and July. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Babelwa bodwa
- Authors: Makhoba, Baghaphile , Composer unknown , 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/10962/224310 , vital:49090 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT342-H8 , Research no. H1D14
- Description: Self delectative songs with Makhweyana bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-01-27
Chitima wajumbo
- Authors: Composer not specified , Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134090 , vital:37071 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-09
- Description: It appears from what the singers explained, that this Chief Jumbo took the train one day in Nyasaland and the occasion being so unusal for the Chief in whose district no railway lines exist, that it merited a song in his honour.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Hayo ni maradhi (Chaupela mpenzi)
- Authors: Chipukizi Rumba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwanza f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179613 , vital:43124 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-07
- Description: A typical local band from the African quarter of any Tanganyika townships of the early 1950's. Nobody plays quite in tune but that does not worry the audiences or more especially the players themselves. They pick up their melodies from each other and from gramphone records and a dozen or more variations of the same song can be found throughout the country. Swahili Rumbas with 2 Banjos, 1 Mandoline, 2 bass drums, 1 conical drum, laced, 2 kazoos, 2 whistles and a flute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Hekata
- Authors: Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1956-10-20
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Not specified f-mz
- Language: Chopi , Gitongo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/227156 , vital:49416 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT378-K3 , Research no. MS7
- Description: Speech, and call and response.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956-10-20
Imbai tudi benaLulua
- Authors: Group of Lulua men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-06-17
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Wankie Colliery f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/230689 , vital:49806 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT443-L64 , Research no. L2A20
- Description: Indigenous folk song for the inauguration of a chief, with singing and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-06-17
Jesu redemptor omnium
- Authors: Teacher Training Centre Choir , Ravanello, Orestes , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-05-27
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Moshi f-tz
- Language: Latin
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/216610 , vital:48191 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT290-F56 , Research no. F3D1
- Description: Unaccompanied Catholic motet song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-05-27
Kamuteketi, Kamuteketi, chalu chinu cha ulendo (I came here as a stranger)
- Authors: Iron Khoma , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Tumbuka , Malawi , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Luvale/Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137312 , vital:37509 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0037-03
- Description: "At our place at home, you will find Beti Kamanga, the son of Balidi. I will stay here till night and sleep until morning. My head is coming through my hair. My father and mother are both dead and I am very poor. Jesus called Moses to leave his fishing and come to Him, on Lake Nyasa." Self-delectative nostalgic song with Bangwe board zither with 7 strings, lowest not used.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kufa kusina dangwe
- Authors: Simon Sitole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181798 , vital:43769 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-12
- Description: "Death does not take the first born first. I may die out in the country. See, ,ata, I am struggling. I am trying my best, Father, my heart is shaking, shaking." Wistful song with Mbira dza WaNdau
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kufa kusina dangwe
- Authors: Sitole, Simon , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-03-01
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Not specified f-rh
- Language: Ndau , Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/227389 , vital:49441 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT381-L2 , Research no. L1B5
- Description: A topical song about going to Sinoia accompanied by mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-03-01
Kupa lomba wachi lela mezhi
- Authors: Large group of Kasai women and men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-01
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic Cite Indigene f-cg
- Language: Luba-Katanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/244623 , vital:51277 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT530-L152 , Research no. L3G1
- Description: Indigenous folk song for the 'Mambala' dance, with singing accompanied by 4 weighted, pinned, closed and hand-beaten goblet drums with mirlitons, 2 pieces of wood struck together and a bell metal bell used as a rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-01
Maashuki
- Authors: Khamis, Hussein , Ahmed, Shariff Twahir , Jauharah Orchestra , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-05-25
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Mombasa f-ke
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/216432 , vital:48169 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT288-F53 , Research no. F3C2
- Description: Swahili Rumba music with orchestra dance band accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-05-25
Mai wa Aruna (Mother of Aruna)
- Authors: James Gwezhe Soko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Goromonze f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180610 , vital:43592 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-03
- Description: A traditional song, sung after a party. No one knows who the mother of Aruna might have been. The song has been sung for over 30 years to my certain knowledge and is likely to be much older. Traditional song with "Mbira Huru".
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
Mama Yangu
- Authors: Mudumbu , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-08-09
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombe f-cg
- Language: Budu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/220908 , vital:48686 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT320-F102 , Research no. F4K9
- Description: A topical song about his mother, country and people accompanied by mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-09
Mangai
- Authors: Chibanda, Kasenga and 7 Kanyoka men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-18
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic Cite Indigene f-cg
- Language: Kanyok
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/244036 , vital:51215 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT522-L144 , Research no. L3C18
- Description: Indigenous topical folk song with singing accompanied by 2 guitars, 3 basket rattles and the sound of a struck bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-18
Mapewu wose wana lumuka mahando
- Authors: Group of 14 Lwena men and 1 woman , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-03
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Bulusako f-ao
- Language: Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/245426 , vital:51367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT533-L155 , Research no. L3I3
- Description: Indigenous topical folk song, with singing accompanied by 1 chisanzhi, a bamboo-tongued board with an external resonator, two struck sticks and a small bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-03
Mapewu wose wanalumuka mahando
- Authors: Group of 14 Luvale men and 1 woman , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Bulusako f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183400 , vital:43985 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-09
- Description: Four or five different men took turns to take the lead in this song but as they gave no indication as to who would lead next it proved a little difficult to catch their first words. Topical song with 1 Chisanzhi bamboo tongued mbira, 2 struck sticks, bottle and small bell
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Maria e madala
- Authors: Muwane, Armando Saule , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Tonga language (Inhambane) , Folk dance music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Maxixe f-mz
- Language: Gitonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189688 , vital:44921 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR196-13
- Description: The perfomer was his own rattle player holding the rattle in his right hand. He is typical of the casual entertainer who use two or three chords repeated endlessly on their topical allusions which nowadays pass for serious song making. They frequently advertise themsleves, constantly mentioning their own names during the course of the song or as an introduction, as in this case. Topical song with guitar and rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963