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Mtsitso II 1979
- Authors: Venancio Mbande and his group of 25 , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- South Africa , Folk music , Xylophone music , Rattle (Musical instrument) , Drum
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , Sound recording material
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/94708 , vital:31071
- Description: Traditional dance song with Timbila xylophone rattles and one drum accompaniment.
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Title not specified
- Authors: Performer not specified , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Music--European influences , Dance music , Bass guitar , Drum , Organ music , Brass instrument music , Sub-Saharan African music
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/107185 , vital:32772
- Description: Small dance band song
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Mtsitso III 1979
- Authors: Venancio Mbande and his group of 25 , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- South Africa , Folk music , Xylophone music , Rattle (Musical instrument) , Drum
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , Sound recording material
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/94727 , vital:31072
- Description: Traditional dance song with Timbila xylophone rattles and one drum accompaniment.
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Inu A'Kachere (You Kachere)
- Authors: By elderly men at Kachere's village , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153401 , vital:39446
- Description: One of the songs said to have been sung after a tribal raid - a morality song after victory, so that the people will continue to be strong and not be thrown out of their country. It was sung when Europeans first entered the country about the end of the last century when Sir Harry Johnstone first ruled the country. "You! It is A Kachere who has increased the population of this country. There should not be prostitutes, it is forbidden or you will be thrown out by the white men." The Kachere mentioned in the song was the father of the present Chief who is about 70 years old. The song is no doubt derived from the old Nguni custom of purification after fighting. A fighting song with clapping.
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I don't know why
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Music , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical songs , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/100573 , vital:31843
- Description: Instrumental music
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Unesikhwele
- Authors: Cwaizile Shandu and Nomatheku Zungu (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Music--South Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133084 , vital:36933
- Description: Four love songs with Makhweyana musical bow
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Yawiyanga, ya kulumbata nyama
- Authors: Three Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Chokwe (African people) , Folk music , Angola , Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Language: Luvale/Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137060 , vital:37484
- Description: The song is sung to celebrate the arrival of a hunter bringing back his booty. Song after hunting with 3 goblet drums, open, pinned, weighted, hand beaten.
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We gonna be alright
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical songs , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/102874 , vital:32184
- Description: Topical song with guitar accompaniment
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Mtsitso II 1979
- Authors: Venancio Mbande and his Timbila orchestra group , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- South Africa , Folk music , Xylophone music
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , Sound recording material
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/95441 , vital:31156
- Description: Traditional Chopi Timbila xylophone dance song.
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Mzeno simple the beginners' part 1979
- Authors: Venancio Mbande and his Timbila orchestra group , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- South Africa , Folk music , Xylophone music
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , Sound recording material
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/95129 , vital:31119
- Description: Traditional Chopi Timbila xylophone dance song.
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Chibhudhu 1981
- Authors: Venancio Mbande and his Timbila xylophone orchestra group of 25 Chopi men with Timbila of Wildebeesfontein , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- Music , Folk music -- South Africa , Xylophone (Musical instruments) , Drum (Musical instruments) , Rattle (Musical instruments) , Sub-Saharan African music
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/98316 , vital:31566
- Description: Traditional dance song with Timbila xylophone, rattles and drum accompaniment
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Bilimankhwe (The Chameleon)
- Authors: The boys of Kawere school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153738 , vital:39506
- Description: "Chameleon! Chameleon! Why are your eyes swollen? There is a funeral at home, you chaps, don't laugh at me. My yard, it is swept clean. I shall leave this village. I made a mistake to settle in this village. Look, My yard is swept clear. Party song with clapping.
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Mzeno 1986
- Authors: enancio Mbande and his slow version for learning Timbila orchestra of Wildebeesfontein , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- Music , Folk music -- South Africa , Xylophone (Musical instruments) , Sub-Saharan African music
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/98510 , vital:31589
- Description: Traditional dance song played by Venancio Mbande with Chopi Timbila xylophone accompaniment
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You must be joking
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa --(African people) , Folk songs, Xhosa , Topical song , Organ music , Bass guitar , Drum , Sub-Saharan African music
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110137 , vital:33234
- Description: Topical song with organ, drum and bass guitar accompaniment
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Jerusarima (Jerusalem)
- Authors: Wambai , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154540 , vital:39744
- Description: The name of the this tune 'Jerusarima' is an adaptation of 'Jerusalem'. The title was given originally to a new style of dancing started by pupils in the schools in the early 1920's or even earlier. The dance is no longer popular but several of the Jerusarima melodies survive as adaptations on various instruments. Self delectative song with Chipendani bow.
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Nyana wam
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Music , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical songs , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/100172 , vital:31797
- Description: Instrumental music
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E mama pilumuna mbundayobe (Turn round, Mama, or face me so that we can dance together
- Authors: Group of 6 Luvale men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luvale (African people) , Folk music , Folk dance music--Angola
- Language: Luvale/Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137274 , vital:37505
- Description: The leader of this group of singers had a remarkable face, deeply chiselled features which gave him a stricking masklike appearence - in fact, a face which made it possible to appreciate the veracity of the art of mask-carving in their home region, surrounding the head waters of both the Zambezi and the Kasai rivers. Kukina and Wangoma dance song.
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Just was that not my style
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical songs , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/102861 , vital:32183
- Description: Topical song with guitar accompaniment
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U Zulu Azi Ahihlome (All the young men must prepare themselves for war)
- Authors: Group of unmarried Swazi girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152555 , vital:39309
- Description: There was a rise in pitch all the way through this song. Umgubo group song.
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Nahatangena (When I entered)
- Authors: Group of 7 Shangaan (Ronga) men with Elias Silaule , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Tsonga , Ronga language , Tsonga (African people) , Folk music
- Language: Ronga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153082 , vital:39391
- Description: The song is a description of work on the mine and on the farms. "My mother was taken for doing something wrong. The cocopan was too heavy to push, e.t.c." This long and detailed song is typical of the Kwaya style of singing by men belonging to the Shangan (Ronga) group from Southern Mozambique. Kwaya Topical song.
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