Wadilika umzi kaMzwandile
- Authors: Composer Not Specified , Polowana, Nothulethu , Mehlo, Nofuniswa , Xhosa Ladies , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-03-07
- 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/10962/264312 , vital:53721 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD034-06
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-03-07
Utale lukene ta va ende ndonguifo
- Authors: Petulus Ndaniel and group of men , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Kuanyama (African people) , Ovambo (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Ovamboland f-sx
- Language: Kwanyama
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195455 , vital:45567 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR215-04
- Description: Song for girls
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
Tamanga simbi
- Authors: Boys of Chief Mwasi's village , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159585 , vital:40314 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-04
- Description: "We have handcuffed them, we of Linga Boma. Although you are proud today, you will see!" The dancers go in groupd called Boma and challenge each other in the dance and in singing with with the Malipenga horns and boast about their performances. The Malipenga were all made out of gourds with mirlton membranes over the small end. The sound quality of the bass singers was good owing to their use of the gourds of adequate size and shape. Their song is a familiar type of boasting to be found among dance teams in most parts of Africa familiar to us. Muganda dance (part 3) with tweleve Malipenga singing horns and drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Mzeno Movement Vulelani
- Authors: Sitiki wa Mndipa (Leader) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Kanda f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/194611 , vital:45468 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR207-06
- Description: This is the old Mzeno (1947) which is now no longer sung and danced to. It was replaced by the Mzeno waHamela, Hamela's Mzeno. Sitiki was once working in the Johammesburg mines and sent his coat to the tailor to be mended because it was torn. The tailor put leather onto the tear. When Sitiki came for it and asked him why he put on leather patches the tailor said, "because of the Germans". The man went away and made a song that all English material came from Germany, and that was why he had to have leather patches on his coat. Orchestral dances with Timbila xylophones.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Masesa I
- Authors: Tonga/ Hlanguni (Performers) , F. Mabosso (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Hand-clapping music , Folk dance music , Drum--Performance , Whistles , Instrumental music , Africa Mozambique Bileni f-mz
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132676 , vital:36868 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR008-04
- Description: Dance song for Masesa dance with 2 cylindrical drums, whistles and clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Mai wa Zondiwa (Mother of Zondiwa)
- Authors: Group of 5 Karanga men from Gutu District , 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/10962/154640 , vital:39757 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-17
- Description: The yodelling of these Karanga men is typical of the southern part of Southern Rhodesia and is not found in many other tribes. The dancers take it in turns to come out into the centre of the ring and perform a simple step dance, with rhythmic stamping of the feet. Bakumba party dance with 2 drums and rattle and sound of step dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Mai wa Zondiwa
- Authors: Group of 5 Karanga men , 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/10962/251336 , vital:52116 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT582-M54 , Research no. M3C9
- Description: A bakumba party dance song accompanied by drums, rattle and sound from dancers stepping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-05-12
Ma chiwerewere (Pulling)
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and 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/10962/138590 , vital:37653 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-10
- Description: The words of the title refer to the pulling in of the dancers, or pulling each other into the ring as they dance inside the circle of singers. Mankuntu dance song for young folk with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kuma (Beat)
- Authors: Group of Tonga men , 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/10962/138411 , vital:37634 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-06
- Description: The drum was bent over towards the drummer and played with hands only. While three men with short pieces of stick tapped out rhythms on the body of the drum, each simple stick rhythm fitting into the next to build up a complex syncopation. Mayanze drinking songs with a Gayanda drum, hand beaten, the Gayanda being conical, single, open, pegged with 3 sticks tapped on the side of the drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kapinga yamba (If this man wants something to sit on, he must sit on the knees of somebody else)
- Authors: Marcel Mwiyaya and large group of Lulua men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people)--Music , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kasai f-cg
- Language: Luba/Lulua
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136948 , vital:37471 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR035-04
- Description: The mirlitons on the gourds of these xylophones are on nipples inserted into the sides of the gourd-on a pece of gourd neck and fastened with wax. Kushemashi dance with 2 xylophones, 2 goblet drums, closed, weighted, pinned with mirlitons and hand beaten, and 1 ligazi basket rattle, 1 whistle and tapped wood.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957