Upendeka kukama (Nicely combed hair)
- Authors: Ruth, Jane Muchindu and group of Tonga women , 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/10962/138544 , vital:37648 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-06
- Description: Pairs of dancers, girl and boy, came out and danced a rather stiff little dance together and then returned to the crowd, as another pair took their place. "When you go to town, do not tell my lover I am nearly a full grown girl, so that he will continue working and come back and find me quite grown up. Mankuntu dance song for boys and girls with 3 drums (Gogogo, Musunta, Mpati). Open and pegged, and played by hands.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Marume ma shora Mambo(The man blames the Chief)
- Authors: Saini Murira, Chingaipa Madzikuminga and Zhogi Muzengedza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Sena (African people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District f-rh
- Language: Sena , Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156541 , vital:40015 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-13
- Description: This item gives one an idea of the authentic music of the larger kinds of Mbira. One peculiarity of this type of mbira is the irregular sequence of the lower notes in the left hand from note number 4 onwards the order of decending scale being: 7-5-4-6-9-8-10-11-12. Topical song with 3 Matebe dza Mondoro mbira bell and 1 Murumbi bowl drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958