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Yawiyanga, ya kulumbata nyama

Yakhal' ingane encanane

Ya ya woye

  • 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/10962/139495 , vital:37744 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-10
  • 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.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wela welenu mama- o muku welada mi nshona (You must be clean, neat and tidy)

Wela welenu mama - o muku welada mi nshona

Vho makhulu Parts I, II, III and voices

Umama litshipa (Mother is an absconder)

Uhadi medley

Uduma alube kuNkulunkulu

Twaliwananga na Joni Meka (We met with Joni Meka)

  • Authors: Group of 7 Luvale women and 12 men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luvale (African people) , Folk music , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Chavuma f-rh
  • Language: Luvale/Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137265 , vital:37504 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR036-12
  • Description: "Joni Meka promised to marry Mary-and married her." The bottle rhythm so common in south central Africa opens this song set off against a cross rhythm on the piece of metal. The organum singing of the chorus, in antiphony with the leader is unmistakeably Luvale in structure and tone. It is not a kind of music which tribes other than Luvale either appreciate or imitates. Gachacha dance song with struck bottle, 2 pieces of metal and 1 small bell. (bicycle).
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tukhongine tulauya

  • Authors: Pancras Mkwawa and Anslem P. 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/10962/174951 , vital:42524 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR157-01
  • Description: "Though we all gather here together yet one day we shall die and meet no more." The singer has a wide reputation as a player of Ligombo an unusually beautiful instrument, with a large gourd attached to one end of the zither. His son is sitting beside him and tappinf the backs of his fingers on the gourd. Mkwawa also hits the gourd occasionally after the fashion of Spanish guitarists. Mourning song, with Ligombo tube Zither, 6 strings.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Tukhongine Tulauya

Tukhong'ine tulanye

Tukhajire Tulamya

Title not specified

Tisare nama bwada

The Ngodo of Regulo Zandamela (Mzeno)

Tebetebe

Tapali ataleya Ka mumbo (Is there anyone going to my home)

  • Authors: Group of 11 Aushi men. , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Kalela (Dance) , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134376 , vital:37136 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-11
  • Description: This group came from the swamps near lake Bangwelu and belonged to the Lumbo section of the Aushi tribe. Kalela dance song with 3 bass drums, cylindrical, laced, 2 wooden beaters each, double-headed.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

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