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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.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Arap Chepsiolei II

Basaula likenja

Chitima wajumbo

Ekibuga ekigya Bamunanika

Everybody get up and dance

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.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Hugh Tracey's favourite recordings and others made for his memorial service

I ya vhuya

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.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kariaara (Slow motion)

  • Authors: Shinda Kamwana , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Kikuyu , Kikuyu (African people) , Songs, Kikuyu--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kiamuthambi f-ke
  • Language: Kikuyu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175590 , vital:42597 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR159-14
  • Description: The button accordian has recently (1952) made its appearance in this area and largely on account of its ease of playing and the great amount of sound emitted, it has become very popular as an accompanying instrument. Most players are content to use only the simplest chords and as few notes as possible regardless of the melody of the song which the instrument accompanies rhythmically. For the recording the man with his piece of iron and box had to be placed a considerable distance from the microphone. Mamboko dance with accordian and struck iron (-12.16-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kufa kusina dangwe

Kyarutema

Leboko II

  • Authors: a, b and c. Labims Keebine. d and e. Joseph Modisi Moiloa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Dinokana f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165832 , vital:41286 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-07
  • Description: At the time of recording this village was much divided on account of the political questions of the continuity of the Chieftainship. One acting Chief had been deposed and was living in Bechuanaland and another Chief was acting in his place. The speaker, who composed and read the praises of his elder brother, the present acting Chief, had been a teacher in their village for 38 years. Moiloa II was the original Chief after whom the reserve was named, about 1880 (died 1886). Ikalafeng succeeded hs grandfather Moiloa in 1887 and died in 1894. Pogiso II (Abram) the ex-Chief of the Moiloa Reserve, is still alive. Praise songs for a) Chief Moiloa II, b) Chief Ikalafeng, c) Chief Pogiso II, d) Chief Diutloiling wa Sebogodi. e) Chief Michael Bagatsu Moiloa.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Mai wa Aruna (Mother of Aruna)

Mama Yangu

Mapewu wose wanalumuka mahando

Masengu

Mawaidha

  • Authors: Kaluta Amir Bin Abedi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kigoma f-tz
  • Language: Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179415 , vital:43061 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-05
  • Description: "With the name of the Lord I should begin. And with his name I should finish. That I may compose them evenly with good things exultingly." Much of the Mashairi poetry, they say, is religious in nature. The African authors demonstrate the extent to which Arab culture has penetrated along the old trade routes. The speaker was fluent in Arabic and his Swahili appears to be more 'classical' than usual. Mashairi sung poems
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mkhema ye (My love)

  • Authors: Tatu Binti Juma with "Ngoma ya udi." , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Ngambo f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172878 , vital:42291 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-20
  • Description: This song shows an adaptation of Nyamwezi African words to an Arab foreign tune. The distortions of Bantu speech tones appear to be less pronounced than in similar adaptations of local words to European tunes. The Nyamwezi peoples were for centuries closely associated with Arab traders and were the carriers of their trade goods into the interior from Bagamoyo on the coast to the lake at Ujiji. They also acted as carriers for most of the famous East African explorers including Livingstone and Stanely. Love song, with one Udi, Arab guitar, one Mandoline and one Tambourine drum (-14.91-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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