Dlalani (Name of a man)
- Authors: 5 young Xhosa men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150741 , vital:39001 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-01
- Description: The song is in praise of a man who has many lovers. This song and the following one were sung by a group of very beautifully dressed young people, the men dancers elegantly blanketed and beaded, the girls wearing pale ochre skirts with many rows of indigo blue braid and their headcloths of indingo blie wool were folded about their heads to form a tall tubular headdress rather like that of Queen Nefertiti. Before the recording started, but whilst the singers were "warming up" there was rather a curious little ceremony which forms part of the dance. One of the girls went around removing the men dancers's headcloths revealing their head bead ornaments. She put their headcloths on her own head, then returned to the line of girls and gave each girl her own young mans' headcloth, which was then tied round the girl's head. A stick specially decorated for dancing is called "Libunguza." Intolombe dance for young people with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bagangali
- Authors: Bakia Pierre , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Zande/Bandiya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167368 , vital:41472 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0122-05
- Description: "I am the only son of my father. My wife, laugh just once so that I may see your teeth." Ngbanda Mandefu, the other harp player, a tall bearded man got up and danced in a style reminiscent of a Cossack dance, snapping his fingers and stamping now and then. Bakia Pierre is a large quietly spoken man who works in a Portuguese butchers shop in the small town of Buta. His songs were greeted with great applause and satisfaction by his fellow Zande in the circle. Topical song, with vertical angular Kundi harp, 5 strings.
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- Date Issued: 1952
Khakha si khudu (The big and the small tortoise)
- Authors: Chief Bathoen II C.B.E. and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162763 , vital:40980 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0109-03
- Description: "The great and the small tortoises are both of the same family. When we men are lean it is because we lack the liver of a tortoise. Here is a big tortoise, here is a small one. Take them to the big men!" Men's initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mamosi
- Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Sotho men and women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133965 , vital:37054 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-03
- Description: Party dance for men and women with clapping
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- Date Issued: 1957
Tebele ya sila ya gaila (The Ndebele girl is grinding and crushing)
- Authors: Group of about 40 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Ramoutsa f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Lete
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165502 , vital:41250 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-11
- Description: This song may refer to the fact that the Ndebele under Mazilekatsi came through this country on or before their way north in 1840, in Moffat's time. Grinding song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Kwimbo layetu nqwe tulinqa (If we were singing at home, we would be singing better)
- Authors: Group of Lozi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mangu f-sa
- Language: Lozi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139709 , vital:37771 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR051-01
- Description: The gist of this song is much the same as that of the Jews who say: "How can we sing the songs of Zion in a strange land?" The tuning of this xylophone can be taken from a recording of each note before the item. Siyomboka dance song with 1 xylophone on a stand, 3 Milupa drums, conical and pegged.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Maiyongwe (The owl's eggs)
- Authors: Joseph Munyeme and friends , 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/10962/138261 , vital:37616 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-14
- Description: "The owl's eggs have flown up. Now has anyone else ever seen such a thing? Ho, ho, ho! I am the only person who has ever seen owl's eggs flying." Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 592, 528, 480, 432, 400, 356, 320, 296, 264, 240 vps. Humorous song with Kankowela mbira, with external resonator.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Dikumbi
- Authors: Kalochi Malidi and friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Mbunda (African people)--Zambia , Luvale (African people) , Luchazi (African people) , Chokwe (African people) , Folk songs, Chokwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kabompo f-za
- Language: Mbunda , Subiya , Luvale , Luchazi , Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184180 , vital:44183 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR184-11
- Description: The music of the region which included, a part of north western Northern Rhodesia, Southern Congo and Angola is quite distictive on account of the melodic structure and local sense of harmony. No Bantu other than the group of tribes which inhabit this small area care for Luchazi music, rejoicing it utterly as incomprehensible. The tuning of the Chisanzhi was:- 512, 424, 388, 348, 320,276, 256 vs. The array of notes or reeds was set out four a side and the sequence of the scale was alternate from left to right. The two outside reeds being the same pitch 512 vs. This arrangement is convenient for playing the runs as heard in this recording, with alternating thumbs. Nyakasanga dance song, with Chisanzhi Mbira, of 8 notes, wax weighted, double whistle
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- Date Issued: 1957
Achelamukani mulole Msego
- Authors: Kanga Mayele with Giryama men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Giryama (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malindi f-ke
- Language: Giryama
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176617 , vital:42721 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-12
- Description: "You women come and see Msego." The women are invited to come and see the Msego dance and the audience told to keep quiet upon pain of being roped up. Msego dance song for men and women with Kayamba raft rattles and clapping (-12.03-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Ba ku Mageledi fyo balila
- Authors: Lala men and women (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lala (African people) , Africa South Africa Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133757 , vital:37013 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR014-11
- Description: Fwanda-fwanda dance song with 3 conical drums. 1) Akanono, 2)Cimbulunge, 3) Fwanda fwanda
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- Date Issued: 1957
Mpenzi wangu umepotea mjini
- Authors: Lang Obiero and group of five Luo men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Kenya , Luo (Kenya and Tanzanian people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kisumu f-ke
- Language: Luo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178847 , vital:42992 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR168-12
- Description: "My love you are lost in the town. My love here are my last words, I am not bound to say them but I do, because I know what love is. I know you so well. And all the troubles of love too I know. My love you have killed me. Come and heal me, Mary Arabia. You have not cured me of my love and my trouble. You did not choose to heal me, nor did you dream of it when you were aleep. I miss you for you are lost in the town. And now my sister Reda, we have loved each other for a long time. And now, because we are parting, I wish you happiness and beg you to answer me." The singers are all Luo, but sing this item in Swahili, the lingua franca of East Africa. Town dance, with 4 guitars and a rattle.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Awana wane wakuluganga
- Authors: Luchenje Nyanda with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwanza f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173632 , vital:42391 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR152-03
- Description: Secret socities, charms and occult ideas are an everyday part of the lives of the Sukuma people. Charms and counter charms to a people who know no physical chain of cause and effect and only a vague one, are still considered valuable. The Wigasha dance is performed sitting down with most of the action confined to stretching up the arms and twisting the torso. The team of dancers performs routine actions in unision with arms and body. The song reflects the considerable ability of Sukuma people to compose and sing intricate songs.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Fwanda-fwanda dance rhythm
- Authors: Lyson Chibuye , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Drum , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134734 , vital:37195 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-10
- Description: For this recording, the drums performed alone without the singing, but on occasion with the whistles in the background provided by the dancers. Each of the 3 drums can be heard separately with its distinctive tune, the Akanono, the Cimbulunge, and the Fwanda-fwanda, each of which has a fairly complex rhythm and tone pattern to add to the whole resultant. It would appear that the Lala style of drumming are among the most evolved in N. Rhodesia. The stick, as in common in this region adds a percussive rhythm of its own and is beaten on to the body of one of the drums adding to the general welter of sound. The rattle was an improvisation, being a small rectangular tin containing pieces of metal and not a specially constructed article. Drum rhythm with 3 conical drums and 1 stick, whistles and rattle
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- Date Issued: 1957
Pygmy dance I
- Authors: Mambuti Pygmy men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Mbuti (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Congo Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168241 , vital:41555 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-11
- Description: Amongst these little people the words for song and for dance are almost synonymous. Because so few local Bantu are able to speak the Pygmy language, it is most difficult to obtain exact informationfro them on this account. Much argument and discussion went on before and after each item. The high pitched beat is the sound of the stick striking the outside of the drum. Dance with conical laced drum, pipes and hand clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1952
Iteyanye (Be prepared)
- Authors: Members of the christian Mission to Many lands , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Drinking songs , Africa Zambia Chingola f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135335 , vital:37260 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-06
- Description: This hymn is based on Ecclesiastes, Chap. V, verse I (Hymn No. 51) This separatist African Christian Sect compose their own hymns. 2 separate Hymns.Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Mupukumo drinking song with Mumamba mbira bell.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Thula ndivile (Be quiet, I have heard)
- Authors: Midnight stars , Alfred Tafeni , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135970 , vital:37321 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-09
- Description: "We are here, we young men, and every one must come and listen, as we are here to give a lively time." Many of the words do not make sense, but are just put in to help out the rhythm. Town dance with dance band.
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- Date Issued: 1957
I have done a film in the moon
- Authors: Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, English , Folk music , Africa South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Northern Transvaal f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153259 , vital:39425 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-11
- Description: The English in which this song is couched is soemwhat original and unorthodox and so is the nostalgic and ambitious sentiment expressed with its reference to the make-believe world of the cinema-the most important single art from influence in the young lives of the performers. The citrus estate for whom they work and where they were born and brought up provides regular free cinema shows for their emplyoees. Party song with guitar.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Sengere Part I
- Authors: Pancras Mkwawa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Hehe (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Iringa f-tz
- Language: Hehe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174886 , vital:42518 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR156-11
- Description: The singer calls the fighting men Zebras in this old heroic song of the violent past. He says "Zebras, you must run fast, the leopard is after you." Songs of the sort were sung at parties to encourage men to deeds of bravery. The sharp rhythmic beatings were made by the player striking the gourd resonator with the back of a finger. Heroic song with Ligombo 6 string trough zither.
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- Date Issued: 1950
He Mmuputsoane (Mmamoshage)
- Authors: Rautana Dinake and large group of men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162506 , vital:40941 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-04
- Description: "Mmamoshage, being with child, does not want to frequent the company of other people. Do you mean to say, Mmamoshage. That just because you have given up dancing I should no longer dance?" The women stand singing and clapping while the men dance. Pina dance with clapping and stamping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Ditshene tsa Mmuputsoane)
- Authors: Rautana Dinake and large group of men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162515 , vital:40942 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-05
- Description: "The baboons of Mmuputsoane eat fruit of the Mumpudu tree, unripe. But not the fruit of the Monyenyana. They would rather eat the Mothwanye fruit, but they must spare the fruit of the Mogwana for we use that to make our cider. Sing my birds." The Mogwana tree is one of the trees of the bushveld. It bears fruit which is used by the Tswana people to make a very potent alcoholic brew, much stronger than beer made from grain. Pina dance with clapping and stamping
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- Date Issued: 1959