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Zuwa woye

Zuwa rawira mukaiwe (The sun is setting, wake up)

  • Authors: Muchuru Zhou with a man and woman , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180501 , vital:43395 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-08
  • Description: There was, once upon a time a baboon who was walking in amongst the hills and found plenty of fruit. Matamba ('Kaffir oranges', strychnos spinosa). He ate a great many and went to sleep on the path, full to the brim. Presently an old woman who was collecting firewood came along and said "My child, why are you sleeping on the path like this?" He did not reply. So she said, "Wake up, the sun is setting." He said, "I don't want to, I am full." Then he said "Come here and listen to my song". So she came near and the baboon sang his song. "The sun is setting, wake up, wake up! Ha-hey-ha, old woman! She makes me laugh. I have discovered this hill here. Which is full of fruit, so I go here and there, eating my fill and laughing." Now when he had finished singing, he woke up, got up and followed the old woman all the way to her home. Son story.
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  • Date Issued: 1949

Ziriya yapasharo

  • Authors: Manyoni Zhou and Simoni Mashoko Shawa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chilimanzi f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181444 , vital:43734 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR175-04
  • Description: It is usual for semi-professional entertainers of this kind to keep up running patter of amusing remarks and scandal to the traditional airs played on the Njari in the background. Like many other players of this instrument Manyoni Zhou calls himself "The player of Mbira". The two musicians come from neighbouring districts, Zhou from Chilimanzi and Mashoko from Buhera, the district in which the Njari originated about 1760 A.D. Topical song with two Njari Mbira, one with 33 notes and one with 31 notes.
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  • Date Issued: 1949

Ziriya (The stone trap)

Zainyanyatoko

  • Authors: Muchuru Zhou , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180520 , vital:43397 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-10
  • Description: The story of a woman who was driven away from the village as they said she was a 'witch' and her husband too rude. The common name for a person whose behaviour or presence is a cause of offence to the others in the community was a 'witch' as used in the mediaeval sense. Story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1949

Whistling Language

  • Authors: Didmas Murigwa and Muyapi Mutema , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Umtali f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180547 , vital:43400 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-13
  • Description: The second small boy, in the whistling item with words, sometimes forgot to whistle the full sentence as he was so carried away by his own repartee. This recording was taken eighteen months later than the previous item. There is first a whistling conversation between two small boys about ten yards apart, and then another conversation ith spoken explanations of the sentences whistled. They bandy small boy's ruderies at each other, hence the laughter from the others. The recording is somewhat marred by tape echo.
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  • Date Issued: 1949

Were

  • Authors: Zaka Shawa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180372 , vital:43357 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-05
  • Description: The Songano Souls (Mashawi) are the guardians of the parental instinct in both men and women. They are said to be the most important of all the souls. They represent the affection for children on the part of both parents. The traditional instrument with which to honour the Masongano souls in this part of panpipes of which there are very few left. The player, a very old man holds the panpipes in one hand and a gourd rattle in the other. This brief recording of less than half a minute's duration may be one of the best echoes of a faith which believed in the virtue of the sound of the panpipes as a devotional exercise. Tune for the Songano Mashawi with Mikwati Wenyere (Pan pipes) and Hosho (rattke).
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  • Date Issued: 1949

Wakazofa akasiya umwe

Wabi = The thieves

Tsuro woye

  • Authors: Teachers Training College, Penhalonga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Goromonze f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180690 , vital:43602 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-11
  • Description: A woman gave her child to a rabbit to look after, but the rabbit ran away with it. She put a pumpkin in her cloth on her back in order to decieve her husband. He was not decieved. So she sang a song to the rabbit. "Rabbit, rabbit! the sun is setting fast like a river in flood." The rabbit eventually brought the child back, when it was tired of playing with the child. Story song, with 2 rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1951

Tindi! Zaone

  • Authors: Jeke Shoko with Duma men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Bikita f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181434 , vital:43733 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR175-03
  • Description: "Tindi! Come and see the eye on the ground. A certain man buried a drum underneath the path which several wild animals used to take on their way to eat his crops in the fields. As they walked over the place where the drum was buried it made an attractive sound as 'Tindi'. So the animals kept on walking over the spot calling to each other to try it out for themselves. In this way their attention was diverted from the main crops in the field. Three story for a story
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  • Date Issued: 1949

Terera Machangwa

  • Authors: Mukomondera Moyo , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181576 , vital:43748 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR175-16
  • Description: The otes were produced by the peerformer drawing his breath in past tha Ilala string of the bow, forming the notes at the same time with the fingers of his left hand. The Machangwa they said was a small kind of jackal found along the streams. The singer was blind. Self delectative song with Chizambi friction bow.
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  • Date Issued: 1951

Tambara ndikutumbure munzwa iwe (Stretch out your leg so that I can take out the thorn in your foot)

Shumba (The liar)

Shuga

  • Authors: Chabarwa Musunda Moyo , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1948
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Nedgiwe f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181520 , vital:43742 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR175-10
  • Description: This is an old recording taken on disc and not on tape. For this item the player took his Njari out of its resonating gourd with its pieces of shell buzzers, so the sound is clear or Musheshe. 'Shuga' is also an old traditional Karanga tune. Traditional airs on Njari dza maNjanjae
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  • Date Issued: 1948

Shokora ndinozwa mumba muno (Pound the grain, I am listening inside here)

  • Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande and his wife , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180231 , vital:43335 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-12
  • Description: The Shangara dance has enjoyed many years of popularity amongst the younger generation. Its pronunciation is unusual being Shangara and not as one might have expected Shangara. It is swiftly moving step dance performed by each of the dancers in turn. The singer remarks among other things on the expense involved if you visit a town. Dance song for Shangara dance for me and women with Njari (Mbira).
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  • Date Issued: 1949

Shoko woye

Shereketa msango

  • Authors: Zhou, Manyoni and Shawa, Simoni Mashoko , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chilimanzi f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181502 , vital:43740 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR175-08
  • Description: The ritual connected with this Mazungu Shawi calls for a Red hat, and white, red and black cloth. You drink blood and white meal and wear Ndoro beads. In the hand you must hold a Gano, a cross. This 'Soul' appears to be associated with the earliest white men and the Catholic rutual of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when it was first introduced to their part of South eastern Africa. Mazungu was the name first given to the early Portuguese and later to all white men. "When you walk on the path, carry your child on the side, do not leave him on your back, there may be something behind you." Song for the Mazungu with 2 Njari Mbira, one with 33 notes and one with 31.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Shangara ye kwa Nyamweda

  • Authors: Muchabaiwa and two others , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Marandellas f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180659 , vital:43597 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-08
  • Description: The Shangara dance at Nyamweda. There they brewed beer at their mother-in-law's. The mother-in-law made beer for her new son-in-law and they danced the Shangara dance. The performer of the mouth bow sometimes resonates the harmonics out of the side of the mouth and sometimes whistles without taking the bow from his mouth. Self delectative song, with Chipendani musical bow, mouth resonated
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  • Date Issued: 1951

Shangara ye kwa Nyamweda

  • Authors: Muchabaiwa and two others , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Marandellas f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180661 , vital:43598 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-08
  • Description: The Shangara dance at Nyamweda. There they brewed beer at their mother-in-law's. The mother-in-law made beer for her new son-in-law and they danced the Shangara dance. The performer of the mouth bow sometimes resonates the harmonics out of the side of the mouth and sometimes whistles without taking the bow from his mouth. Self delectative song, with Chipendani musical bow, mouth resonated
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  • Date Issued: 1951
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