Chipuri (The singing gourd)
- Authors: Group of 12 Bena Shimba women and Alexis Chovu , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Northern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Bakwanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139192 , vital:37713 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-02
- Description: The hand clapping was done more softly with capped hands. Morality song with 3 Chipuri singing gourds, 1 basket rattle, 1 bottle and hand clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Malona diya wadikenge leli kufwa (Malona was warned of danger)
- Authors: Group of 14 Lunda men and 4 women , 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/10962/139357 , vital:37730 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-14
- Description: "Malona was warned of danger but she paid no attention and thus met with an accident." This song follows common Lunda pattern with the chorus singing in organum. The Lunda tribe occupy the watershed from which three great rivers arise: the Zambezi, the Lualaba and the Kasai, the one flowing east to the Indian ocean and the other two comprising the main southern branches of the Congo flowing westwards to the Atlantic. Kahaku ceremonial dance song with rattle and struck bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957