Chibudo movement
- Authors: Chopi performers (Performers) , Komukomu (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Orchestral music , Xylophone with orchestra , Rattle (Musical instrument) , Instrumental music , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132318 , vital:36826 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR005-07
- Description: Ngodo xylophone orchestral dance of Regulo Bangaza with 15 xylophones and 1 rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Chibudo movement of the Ngodo of Repula Banguza, 1952
- Authors: Komukomu and men from Banguza , Komukomu , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1955-10-03
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Portuguese East Africa f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225648 , vital:49244 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT359-J8 , Research no. H1L15
- Description: Movement of the Repulo Banguza 1955, played on xylophone and rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-10-03
Ihlomulo walekaya mangawa yanima
- Authors: Shishonke, Saisi , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-16
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Messina f-sa
- Language: Tswa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/246672 , vital:51501 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT544-L165 , Research no. L3M11
- Description: Self delectative song with Chitende musical bow, braced and resonated accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-16
Ihlomulo walekaya mangawa yanima (The pleasure of the people is my distress)
- Authors: Saisi Shishonke , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Africa Mozambique Mabote f-mz
- Language: Tswa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136215 , vital:37350 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR029-04
- Description: The player stopped the lower segment of the string with the backs of both his first and 2nd fingers. Self-delectative song with CHITENDE musical bow, braced and resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kulira kwa ng'omba (The song of the Ground Hornbill)
- Authors: Lonesi Chewame and Toni Hetara , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Katinga f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158081 , vital:40146 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-08
- Description: This instrument had ten notes set on two banana stalks with sticks pierced into the stalks to divide the notes. The deep trumpeting of the ground hornbills in the early morning and evening is a well known feature of the low lying regions of the country. The reiterated low note represents the hornbill's call, "Ri-riti, ri-riti." Tune without words. Loose note xylophone.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kwimba Kalimba (To play the Kalimba)
- Authors: E. A. Nkuzana , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tumbuka (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Mzimba District f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156273 , vital:39970 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-08
- Description: "To play the 'Kalimba' is to be happy. I remember long ago when I was a small child when I thought a breast was made of bone. But my mother told me that the breast was not bone, but flesh only. I was fooled long ago, I thought the breast was bone but it is flesh only. Listen my friends, the breast is flesh only." It seems that the obvious meaning of the words is intended to serve a secondary one. Perhaps the revelation of the begining of his natural sex life. Self delectative song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kyabula wa in kande Mpuya (You paddler of the canoe, save me)
- Authors: R. Chimengwa and 5 Kaonde men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Kaonde (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Solwezi f-za
- Language: Kaonde
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139241 , vital:37718 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-05
- Description: The gist of the song is about a man who was drowning in the river, and he called on all his friends to come and save him. His canoe was drifiting away and he could not swim. This song, they said, was used when going to raid the Lozi tribe manay years ago, before Europeans came to the country in the nineteenth century. Fighting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kyabula wa mikanda Mpuya
- Authors: Chimengwa, R , Five Kaonde men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-19
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia City not specified f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/196359 , vital:45756 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-505 , Research no. L2Y6
- Description: A song asking the paddler of a canoe to save the singer whose canoe was drifiting away.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-19
Mama wanyi bwala wanyi
- Authors: S. Kaseya and A. Kabamba and group of Kanyoka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Instrumental music , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kandakanda f-cg
- Language: Kanyoka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134472 , vital:37163 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-04
- Description: According to Father de Nolf, quoted by le Pere van Bulck, S. J., the BaLuba Lubilashi used to pay a tax to these Kanyoka chiefs who were themselves the envoys of the Luba emperors from Kasongo Nyembo. In return for their submission they recieved the chieftainship and its external signs: a vase to contain kaolin, a hat, a sceptre, a tortoise and a lion's skin. The Kanyoka have adopted many elements of the underlying culture of the Kasai and its Luba people Kamwendende dance with 2 guitars, 2 basket rattles, 3 goblet drums, and piece of struck metal
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mbo
- Authors: Baonoko , Buundu men , 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/10962/220755 , vital:48669 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT319-F101 , Research no. F4K1
- Description: Indigenous dance folk song for parties, with singing accompanied by 1 small slitdrum, 1 very small slitdrum (carried), 2 conical laced drums, 2 pod-shaped slitdrums, 1 open ivory horn and basket rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-09
Mwadzi itira (He has done it himself)
- Authors: Joseph Ngonyama Shumba , 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/10962/154322 , vital:39648 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-08
- Description: The player is an accomplished performer, he works for the Fort Victoria Municipality on the local roads with the grader. This song is in effect a complaint against those who do things without first asking permission, particularly a wife who does not first ask her husband's permission regarding family matters. Self delectative song with mbira dzawaNdau.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Mwe Abantu Mwena Abayita Mukobo
- Authors: Namirembe Cathedral Choir , da Victoria, T. L. , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-08-31
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/212828 , vital:47768 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT203-D117 , Research no. D5W7
- Description: Unaccompanied religious antiphon song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-08-31
Myeyezelo
- Authors: Group of 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/10962/149166 , vital:38811 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-03
- Description: Sung by initiates before circumcision.Circumcision song,with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nyamutosa chimbo cha Gotosa
- Authors: Madzikaminga, Chigaipa , Muzengedza, Zhogi , Madero , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-05-21
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko f-rh
- Language: Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/251694 , vital:52157 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT587-M59 , Research no. M3E18
- Description: A party song accompanied by matebe dza mondoro mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-05-21
Puo ea Morena George T. Moshoeshoe
- Authors: Moshoeshoe, Sam , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-05-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228786 , vital:49601 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT432-L53 , Research no. L1X6d
- Description: A speech by Chief George T. Moshoeshoe.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-05-28
Suratin-Noor
- Authors: Alustadh, Ahmed Basheikh , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-05-25
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Mombasa f-ke
- Language: Arabic
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/216401 , vital:48166 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT287-F52 , Research no. F3C1
- Description: Recitation spoken and sung from the Koran.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-05-25
Tachula bebe
- Authors: Yerungwe, Fernando , Nyembane Dancers , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1955-03-06
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gauteng f-sa
- Language: Gitonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225054 , vital:49180 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT350-H17 , Research no. H1H12
- Description: Not specified.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-03-06
Udumo lub'ekuNkululu
- Authors: Choir , Huwiler, Kurt , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1980-05-30
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mbongolwane f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/256064 , vital:52679 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD012-07
- Description: Indigenous music, Choral music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980-05-30
Ungewu
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133475 , vital:36981 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-10
- Description: Party song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Vijana wa Eco
- Authors: East Coast Orchestra African Band , Badi, M. N. , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-05-24
- 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/10962/216230 , vital:48147 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT287-F52 , Research no. F3B3
- Description: Swahili quickstep dance song accompanied by a dance band.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-05-24