Ana-e
- Authors: soilders of the Force Publique, at Camp Militaire, Gombari , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Ngala (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mbangala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169173 , vital:41692 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-12
- Description: These marching songs are well known and sung by all Congo askari, the African soilders of the Force Publique. Ngala is the official lingua franca for all the native soilders of the Congo, a country where there are over 400 Bantu and nearly 100 non Bantu, languages and dialects. (Copied from disc). Soilders marching song with 3 bass drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Announcing a death
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-08-01
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Efe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/218986 , vital:48459 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT315-F94 , Research no. F4E7c
- Description: Indigenous folk drum rhythms with a mixture of background cries and yodelling, 2 small and 2 large pod-shaped slit drums, and two long cylindrical drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-01
Announcing a death
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169089 , vital:41683 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-06
- Description: Away from the Congo river itself it appears that the art of sending drum messages deteriorates into the sendng of signals only, the former being based upon the tonality of the individual words comprising the sentences transmitted, the latter comprising pre-set phrases and rhythms to which certain significance is attached. The signals may have risen from messages in the past but the skill of 'talking' on the drums has almost if not entirely vanished among the Mangbele. The significance ofthe 'Tamatsaro' signal was not explained. Drum rhythms or signals with 2 slit drums, 2 large pod shaped slit drums, 2 long cyclindrical drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Call for circumcision
- Authors: Mbuti men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-08-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Efe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/219042 , vital:48464 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT315-F94 , Research no. F4F1a
- Description: Indigenous dance folk song with singing accompanied by 2 conical, laced drums, one wooden slitdrum and basket rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-02
Call for circumcision
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169108 , vital:41685 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-06
- Description: Away from the Congo river itself it appears that the art of sending drum messages deteriorates into the sendng of signals only, the former being based upon the tonality of the individual words comprising the sentences transmitted, the latter comprising pre-set phrases and rhythms to which certain significance is attached. The signals may have risen from messages in the past but the skill of 'talking' on the drums has almost if not entirely vanished among the Mangbele. The significance ofthe 'Tamatsaro' signal was not explained. Drum rhythms or signals with 2 slit drums, 2 large pod shaped slit drums, 2 long cyclindrical drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Call for circumcision
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-08-01
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Efe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/219020 , vital:48462 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT315-F94 , Research no. F4E7e
- Description: Indigenous folk drum rhythms with a mixture of background cries and yodelling, 2 small and 2 large pod-shaped slit drums, and two long cylindrical drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-01
Call to war
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169075 , vital:41681 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-02
- Description: Away from the Congo river itself it appears that the art of sending drum messages deteriorates into the sendng of signals only, the former being based upon the tonality of the individual words comprising the sentences transmitted, the latter comprising pre-set phrases and rhythms to which certain significance is attached. The signals may have risen from messages in the past but the skill of 'talking' on the drums has almost if not entirely vanished among the Mangbele. The significance ofthe 'Tamatsaro' signal was not explained. Drum rhythms or signals with 2 slit drums, 2 large pod shaped slit drums, 2 long cyclindrical drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Call to war
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-08-01
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Efe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/218948 , vital:48454 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT315-F94 , Research no. F4E7a
- Description: Indigenous folk drum rhythms with a mixture of background cries and yodelling, 2 small and 2 large pod-shaped slit drums, and two long cylindrical drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-01
Chief summoning his people
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169084 , vital:41682 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-03
- Description: Away from the Congo river itself it appears that the art of sending drum messages deteriorates into the sendng of signals only, the former being based upon the tonality of the individual words comprising the sentences transmitted, the latter comprising pre-set phrases and rhythms to which certain significance is attached. The signals may have risen from messages in the past but the skill of 'talking' on the drums has almost if not entirely vanished among the Mangbele. The significance ofthe 'Tamatsaro' signal was not explained. Drum rhythms or signals with 2 slit drums, 2 large pod shaped slit drums, 2 long cyclindrical drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Chief summoning his people
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-08-01
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Efe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/218976 , vital:48457 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT315-F94 , Research no. F4E7b
- Description: Indigenous folk drum rhythms with a mixture of background cries and yodelling, 2 small and 2 large pod-shaped slit drums, and two long cylindrical drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-01
Curative song
- Authors: Mbuti men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Mbuti (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Congo Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168304 , vital:41562 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-18
- Description: This song is performed when a Pygmy is ill in order to help him recover. They do not believe in foreign medicine and rarely bring their people out of the forest to hospital. Curative song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Gbalabalatauw iye hihe
- Authors: Mbuti men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-08-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Efe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/220388 , vital:48626 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT315-F94 , Research no. F4F3b
- Description: Indigenous folk work song with unaccompanied singing .
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-02
Gbalabalatauw iye hihe
- Authors: Mbuti men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-08-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Efe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/220383 , vital:48625 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT315-F94 , Research no. F4F3a
- Description: Indigenous folk work song with unaccompanied singing .
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-02
Gbalabalatauw iye hihe – Work song
- Authors: Mbuti men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Mbuti (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Congo Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168295 , vital:41561 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-17
- Description: This song is performed early in the morning, following the day when the Pygmies have moved their camp and havr just completed the making of another. The 'huts' are very primitive shelters made of twigs and leaves and are soon abandoned as the game moves away to other parts of the forest. A small forest bird can be heard at the end of this song. Curative song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Idembe
- Authors: Mbuti men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-08-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Efe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:48624 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT315-F94 , Research no. F4F2b
- Description: Indigenous folk song for hunting the Iddi (small antelope), with unaccompanied singing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-02
Jean Pierre
- Authors: Mingana Paul and soilders of the Force Publique , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Ngala (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mbangala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169186 , vital:41693 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-13
- Description: Stories of this kind are a peculiar invention of the Congo askaris, who have a large variety of them. This one is about a soilder who had three sons who refused to go to school and set out to educate themselves. One went to Leopoldville, one to Elizabethville and the third to Brussels. The last one, Jean Pierre, the youngest son, became a professional theif. He stole a fine car and drove it all the way up through Africa and on to Brussels in Beligium. There, he presented himself at the Palace. The Queen Astrid received him very graciously and asked him he wanted Jean Pierre was so overcome and taken aback at her kind request that he could think of nothing to say except "Some water please." Presently the King came in, having been on a long journey and when he saw Jean Pierre he ordered up the askari and had him flung into gaol, after which his friends would have nothing to do with him. The moral od the story, they said, is that one should not steal, and if the soilders steal, they say, their wives have them flung into gaol. These Congo soilders appear to have invented a wonderful way of ensuring the attention of the audience throughout their stories, at unexpected intervals, the story teller shouts out "Histoire" to which everyone must immediately respond "Onolo!" No one could explain to us the origin of the response and whether the word was of French or African origin, 'en or' or 'onolo'. (Copied from disc). Story
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Lebandima
- Authors: Mangbele men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168987 , vital:41668 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-14
- Description: In the hilly country of North Eastern Congo and in the great tropical forest basin of the Ituri, the Tipoyi or Sedan chair is still the only means of passenger transport away from the main roads. Not only officials but most native chiefs and notables are carried in this manner by four or more bearers, who after the fashion of all Africans use special occupational songs for this kind of work. Tipoyi carriers song, with two wooden pod shaped slit drums and two cylindrical slit drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Lebandima
- Authors: Mangbele men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-08-01
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Efe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/218897 , vital:48449 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT315-F94 , Research no. F4E6b
- Description: Indigenous folk song called a 'Tipoyi carrier's song', with singing accompanied by 2 wooden pod-shaped slitdrums, two wooden cylindrincal slitdrums and rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-01
Manatobo kukwo
- Authors: Mbuti women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-08-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Efe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/220393 , vital:48627 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT315-F94 , Research no. F4F4a
- Description: Indigenous folk lullaby with unaccompanied singing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-08-02
Manatobo kukwo – Day lullaby
- Authors: Mbuti women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Mbuti (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Congo Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168309 , vital:41563 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-19
- Description: When the song is sung, they say, any time during the day. Lullaby.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952