Amasewe mukadzi wakanaka (The beauty)
- 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/10962/154314 , vital:39646 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-07
- Description: The player is an accomplished performer, he works for the Fort Victoria Municipality on the local roads with the grader. This song is the best known and popular in the Sipangabera district of Portuguese East Africa. It is, they say the first of all songs in the region. The word 'Amasewe' means 'mother-in-law' and the gist of the song is that a certain young man went to a nearby village where he got himself a wife and his mother-in-law kept on remarking how handsome he was. Self delectative song with mbira dzawaNdau.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Amasewe mukadzi wakanaka (The beauty)
- 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/10962/154309 , vital:39647 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-07
- Description: The player is an accomplished performer, he works for the Fort Victoria Municipality on the local roads with the grader. This song is the best known and popular in the Sipangabera district of Portuguese East Africa. It is, they say the first of all songs in the region. The word 'Amasewe' means 'mother-in-law' and the gist of the song is that a certain young man went to a nearby village where he got himself a wife and his mother-in-law kept on remarking how handsome he was. Self delectative song with mbira dzawaNdau.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Andanyero Mamamba
- Authors: Ebogoma, Gabriel , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-08-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Medje f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/220735 , vital:48667 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT319-F101 , Research no. F4J8
- Description: Indigenous topical folk song with singing accompanied by a neikembe mbira (11 notes) with a box resonated sound hole.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-08
Ayaya wo- mami- yami- e
- Authors: Three Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Chokwe (African people) , Folk music , Angola , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Sandoa f-cg
- Language: Luvale/Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137047 , vital:37482 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR036-03
- Description: The drums are introduced one after the other, the third drum being heavily weighted and having a distinct buzzing tone, takes the main syncopation. The voices are introduced a full minute after the drums have set the rhythm. Chisira initiation dance with 3 goblet drums, open, pinned, weighted, hand beaten.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ayaya wo-mami- ami-e
- Authors: Three Chokwe men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-30
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic Cite Indigene f-cg
- Language: Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/244470 , vital:51260 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT527-L149 , Research no. L3E5
- Description: Indigenous folk song for the 'Chisina' initiation dance, with singing accompanied by 3 weighted, pinned, closed and hand-beaten goblet drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-30
Aye welele wa Mhalaka
- Authors: Nono, Ngoi , Anastase, Kabongo , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba-Lulua
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/242797 , vital:51080 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT512-L134 , Research no. L2Z20
- Description: Topical song with 2 guitars, bottle, rattle and whistle accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-24
Aye welele wa Mhalaka (Alas for a bachelor)
- Authors: Ngoi Nono and Kabongo Anastase with friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical songs , Instrumental music , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134506 , vital:37169 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-07
- Description: The song recounts all the troubles of a bachelor. The Songe tribe is an offshoot of the great Luba groups of the Kasai and Katanga provinces of Southern Congo. Topical song with 2 guitars and bottle, small rattle and whistle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Dundu we, dundu makevata bina tauni (Football, football is played in the town)
- Authors: Large group of Kasai women and 5 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Lubumbashi f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137785 , vital:37559 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-07
- Description: Topical football song with 4 goblet drums, closed, pinned, weighted with mirlitons, hand beaten, and pieces of wood struck together.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Galawa tdlani
- Authors: Young Shangaan Boys at Elias Hazis Bakery , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-05-25
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Mozambique people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Lourenco Marques, Elias Hazis Bakery f-rh
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198097 , vital:45943 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-010 , Research no. CD3
- Description: Indigenous folk work song (when kneading dough) with singing and the thumping sound of dough being rhythmically thrown on a table.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-05-25
I may jump
- Authors: Chaminuka Band , Msarurgwa, August , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-02-20
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Bulawayo f-rh
- Language: Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/210749 , vital:47535 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT153-D8 , Research no. F2A12
- Description: Town dance song accompanied by banjo, saxophone, shaker and clave.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-02-20
Kame-lo
- Authors: Ilunga, Patrice , Misomba, Victor , And friends , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-26
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba-Katanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/243631 , vital:51171 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT517-L139 , Research no. L3B5
- Description: Indigenous topical folk song with singing accompanied by 2 guitars and the sound of a struck bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-26
Kha ubethe umqwayitho
- Authors: Dargie, Dave , Ngqoko Herd Boys
- Date: 1981-10-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Lumko f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/258856 , vital:53025 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD025-10
- Description: Church music, church hyms, Choral music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1981-10-24
Lita, tende ngewelo (Lita, let us go to the hut)
- Authors: George Zongoloti , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155712 , vital:39908 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-05
- Description: This song refers to the custom of young people's sex play which normally results in marriage. Lita was a young girl who was refusing to sleep with her young lover. Now she had a baby and the baby died, so her lover complained about his lost child. He said, "give me back my child, Fasanai and Thompson, so much have I paid to marry you and have a child. If I do not get a child, I shall go to Rhodesia, to Lilongwe, to Lourenco Marques ot to Johannesburg or Cape Town to get a child. Fasanai and Thompson, you must bring my baby back because it is you who killed my child." Topical song with Nthikwi drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Msumeto. 9th Movement
- Authors: Ngodo of Cabo Mahamba , Chiponi Kwapeni (Leader) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Cabo Mahamba f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/192612 , vital:45242 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR202-05
- Description: Orchestral dance with 14 Timbila xylophones - 2 Chilanzane (Treble), 8 Sange (Alto), 1 Doli (Tenor), 1 Debiinda (Bass), 2 Gulu (Double Bass).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Nasika Jesu ameniita
- Authors: Teacher Training Centre Choir , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-05-27
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Moshi f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/216655 , vital:48196 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT290-F56 , Research no. F3D4
- Description: Catholic hymn with reed organ accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-05-27
Ndlambe
- Authors: Women of Kalana location , Ndlambe , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-05-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa King Williams town f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/227688 , vital:49476 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT386-L7 , Research no. L1D2
- Description: A song sung when a boy is getting circumcised accompanied by stamping and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-05-02
Ngoma ya Shirilo
- Authors: Gremio Civil Chaimite , Gomes, Feliciano , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1955-10-30
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Maputo f-mz
- Language: Tswa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/213684 , vital:47865 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT235-D157 , Research no. D8E3
- Description: Lament song accompanied by three guitars.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-10-30
Ntende
- Authors: Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Kabinda f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139481 , vital:37742 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-08
- Description: The larger drum was also tapped on the side by a stick. The clapping was done with cupped hands. The Chief de Centre Kapenda, was the head of this group. Jadotville is the headquaters of the central region of the Union Miniere, the other 2 towns being Elizabethville in the East and Kolwezi in the West. It was originally famous for the fact that one of the mines, Shinkolobwe, was the first place in the world from which the famous Curie family obtained the radium for their experiments. At Panda, there is a museum of mineral crystals discovered in the Katanga mines. Kawidi dance with 2 goblet drums, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons, hand beaten.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Shangara pa chikaranga
- Authors: Stephen R. Gumbo , 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/10962/154132 , vital:39612 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR080-03
- Description: The player has taken a Nyasa instrument instead of the local Njari. He explained he found the smaller instrument easier to play inspite of the fact that it had only half the number of notes. He claimed he had tuned it the same as the Njari but in point of fact his scale was one note short appearing to be hexatonic whereas his tribe is known to be heptatonic. The missing note is clearly situated between 212 and 260 vs and might have been approximately 234 to 238 vibrations per second. Humorous song with Mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Shangara pa chikaranga
- Authors: Gumbo, Stephen Runero , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-05-12
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
- Language: Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/251218 , vital:52103 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT580-M52 , Research no. M3C3
- Description: Humorous song acompanied by mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-05-12