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Wadianda wa Bena Shimba (We are the people of Bena Shimba)

  • Authors: Group of 9 Bena Shimba women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Northern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Bakwanga f-cg
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139183 , vital:37712 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-01
  • Description: This group belonged to the Bena Shimba clan. As well as tipping and sometimes singing into their gourds through a length of metal pipe or tube, the gourd-blowers also struck the sides of the gourds with their hands. The gourds of this group were handsomely decorated with metal studs arranged in patterns. When asked when they performed this song, the answer was, "we sing it for funerals, but also on any sad occassion, for example when a man has to pay a large sum of money to another. Lament with 3 singing gourds (Chipuri), 1 basket rattle (-12.54-), hand clapping (-12.03-) and 1 bottle (-12.17-).
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Yarira ngosa (Ngosa declares Adolescent verses)

  • Authors: B. Makariki and 3 boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Kaonde (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kasempa f-za
  • Language: Kaonde
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139292 , vital:37723 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-07
  • Description: Ngosa declares that he has just come from Ndola where he has seen a fine caterpillar tractor. Ngosa tells his friend about this tractor and goes back himself to Ndola. "On your way back, replies his friend, convey our greetings to Teresa who lives in the Lamba country." The pre occupation of small boys with the shape of new motoe cars and other pieces of machinery such as tractors, appears to be shared by African boys as well. Adolescent verses.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mbainaka (Farewell-I am going)

Kyabula wa in kande Mpuya (You paddler of the canoe, save me)

  • Authors: R. Chimengwa and 5 Kaonde men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Kaonde (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Solwezi f-za
  • Language: Kaonde
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139241 , vital:37718 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-05
  • Description: The gist of the song is about a man who was drowning in the river, and he called on all his friends to come and save him. His canoe was drifiting away and he could not swim. This song, they said, was used when going to raid the Lozi tribe manay years ago, before Europeans came to the country in the nineteenth century. Fighting song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kahuru ngoma ayo mapmanda (Rabbit plays the drum)

Chipuri (The singing gourd)

Libela (We are going to dance)

Ezimaqiya (A woman's headdress)

Intlnganiso ya magqiha ye Isangoma (Proceedings at Herbalist's meeting)

Khawuxheliso wakalo haha (Will you say what is wrong, ha ha)

  • Authors: Group of Qwathi women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Tembu (African people) , Field recordings , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Engcobo f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139583 , vital:37753 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR049-04
  • Description: In the middle of this song the headman and the owner of the hut got up, delievered a rousing speech and stepped back to his place on the left of the door, very pleased with himself. After that the woman resumed singing with renewed vigour, stood up and accompanied themselves by a double stamp instead of the single stamp usually heard further south. Topical song sung in the evening with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tulele mam'we we u chiku chimbundu (We sleep here / The night mist)

Chapache

  • Authors: Jean Kota and group of Lunda women , 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/10962/139546 , vital:37749 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-14
  • Description: Both the drum and the hands beat out the usual double beat, with the stick providing the simple syncopation of 3 beats and a double beat followed by 2 beats and a double, so commonly found throughout Southern Congo, regardless of the measure of the song. The song ends with the leader calling out to the singers "Manyoka" to which they answer with a set phrase which sounds like: "A pinda akwezhi." Party song with clapping and small goblet drum tapped on the side as well as beaten (14.52251-).
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Intlnganiso ya magqiha ye Isangoma (Proceddings at Herbalist's meeting)

Ukugwiya

Tiana pa makulu

Eco bale mukanina bamayo (This is why you are being divorced, mama)

  • Authors: Isaac Matafwani and Sunkutu , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140038 , vital:37826 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-02
  • Description: "This is why you are divorced, mama, it is because you go out and greet others familiarly, such as 'Good morning, Isaac.' Far away along the Ndola road is where I saw a Lamba man, who addressed me saying: "Isaac, you will not have any more children. This is your last child." The general burden of this song, like many others performed in industrial compounds, is both topical and critical of the morality of the present day mine worker in this environment. Topical song with guitar and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kabula nina kamushalila (I have no mother)

  • Authors: Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Aushi , Lamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140076 , vital:37830 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-05
  • Description: 'I have no mother. No matter what I do, whether I pray or whatever I do, I am alone." The singer is a wandering performer who earns his living by singing popular songs of his own composition which give him plenty of scope to introduce local gossip between verses. He is assisted by 2 or 3 friends who share his bohemian life wandering from compound to compound along the Copperbelt. His songs, though often rhythmic, are frequently based upon the slightest of melodies as in this case. This song is sung partly in the local Lamba language - Although Tsotsi Kasumali himself is an Aushi. Lament with guitar and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ukuteka imbwa mano (To keep a dog)

  • Authors: Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140058 , vital:37828 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-03
  • Description: This song is based on an old traditional song teaching good behaviour. "To keep a dog one must be wise-if you take a stick it will run away. In the same way we must be tactful with our wives. If we use force, we shall fail to control them. A bad wife is not neccessarily the one who talks too much, and a good wife is not neccessarily one who talks less. By all means, let us see what we see, but we should not give our ears to everything we hear." The singer adds: "I heard this song from the Lala." The whole song is performed in a kind of recitative with call and answer. Morality song with guitar and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nalinamayo nshale chula (When I had a mother, I did not starve)

Nalina mayo (I had a mother)

  • Authors: Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140003 , vital:37823 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-13
  • Description: 'I had a mother and she died. She was killed by people who envied me. Women are no good. They leave their own husbands to go and flirt with the loafers in the street. When I have no cash on me everyone laughs at me. One day I went out into the bush hunting and I fired at some guinea fowls but I missed. So people laughed at me because I had nothing to eat at home." "This song comes from the Chief of the Aushi who sent me to come and sing it to you, and I am Steve Tsotsi singing. Topical song with guitar and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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