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Yarabba ssama Part II
- Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-07-12
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Arabic
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/231206 , vital:49865 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2533 , XYZ5090
- Description: Moslem religious chant called Kasida acompanied by 3 duff frame drums
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- Date Issued: 1950-07-12
Yabulele Hiyari ngoma (This Hiyari dance is very foolish)
- Authors: Idi Selemani with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173083 , vital:42320 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-18
- Description: The leader disapproved of the singing of the women who persisted in putting their black bourkas over their mouths. His 'tch-tch' can be clearly heard in his second song. Hiyari ya Moyo dance song.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Wangereza safi
- Authors: Nyamugumi Mihabo Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173282 , vital:42353 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-05
- Description: 'The English are a straight forward, good and polite people. They are as good as drinking water and are not hasty, this is a good dance for boys, come and join us." The singers are all Nyamwezi who have come down to the East coast from the interior near Tabora and have now settled permanently at the coast in or around Dar-es-Salaam. These Nyamwezi singers of Dar-es-Salaam have an attractive way of singing their songs repeating each stanza after the soloist. This style may well have been copied from the Arabs or Swahili. Tatu Binti Ali is the young wife of Idi Selemani the organiser of the group. Hiyari ya moyo dance song for men and women..
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- Date Issued: 1950
Wamzalila waliwevyole wali twamwona
- Authors: Ali H. Wachibi , Four Old Ganda Women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-06-24
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/229345 , vital:49663 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2257 , XYZ6018b
- Description: Party song for parties with Ndingidi lute
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- Date Issued: 1950-06-24
Uwi, mamsaga makumbulage wagela mnyabo
- Authors: Idi Selemani with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173044 , vital:42316 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-14
- Description: "You are talking a lot these days my friend, I am sure you will be sad when Nyahinga dies." Nyahinga, they said, is known to be very good singer in Nyamwezi country. Idi Selemani, the leader 'lines' the verses to be sung by the chorus of his friends. The soloist, Idi is a well known and much beloved comedian in his own society of Nyamwezi people living in Dar-es-Salaam and is a joy to watch. His antics and feigned anger are masterly acting. The singer starts the third song with the familiar cry of the 2nd King's African Rifles, "Seken-Seken, K.A.R. Namba wantu. Humorous song with clapping, with clapping and 1 Goblet drum (-14.52101-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Uswezi II
- Authors: Uwilula with old Nyamwezi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173001 , vital:42309 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-10
- Description: Uswezi is said to be the name of a special religious group which believes in divination and power of magic. They speak a special patois or code language of their cult. Unlike the Migabo they are not considered to be useful to society but have certain influence in the land. The song was recorded in Dar-es-Salaam, but their origin is up country near Tabora in the home district of the Nyamwezi tribe. Uswezi divination song, with gourd rattles.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Uchaucha kina mama
- Authors: Pembe Selemani and Zaramo boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyakyusa (African people) , Zaramo (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyakyusa , Zaramo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175414 , vital:42574 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR158-16
- Description: "You are giving me a lot of trouble. Go and eat food prepared by my mother on a basket. You will find it better and different from food prepared on enamel plates which makes your stomach bad." The players start to play begining with the pipe 3rd from the lowest. Each piper above then takes his rhythm from the next man below. If one fails to get started he holds up all the others above. The leader then comes along and gets his rhythm for him and his companions can then take up the rhythm until the treble player at last joins in. Set of 13 pipes. The tuning of this set was as follows:- 584, 520, 440, 392, 336, 292. Giving a pentatonic scale. The total range was just over two octaves. Mbeta pipe dance, with Viyanzi vertical flutes, 2 friction sticks (-12.61-) and tin rattles (-12.54-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Uchaucha kina mama
- Authors: Selemani, Pembe , Zaramo young men , composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-06-24
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Zaramo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/231292 , vital:49874 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2551 , XYZ6023T
- Description: Mbeta pipe dance song accompanied by the Viyanzi vertical flutes, 2 friction sticks and tin rattles
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- Date Issued: 1950-06-24
Tula bongela heya (We are talking, yes!)
- Authors: Idi Selemani with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173088 , vital:42321 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-19
- Description: The leader disapproved of the singing of the women who persisted in putting their black bourkas over their mouths. His 'tch-tch' can be clearly heard in his second song. Hiyari ya Moyo dance song.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Swaluu-Alah manyaana bilbay yinatil II
- Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-07-12
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Arabic
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/231228 , vital:49867 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2536 , XYZ5088
- Description: Moslem religious chant called Kasida acompanied by 3 duff frame drums
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- Date Issued: 1950-07-12
Swaluu-Alah manyaana bilbay yinatil I
- Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-07-12
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Arabic
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/231219 , vital:49866 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2536 , XYZ5087
- Description: Moslem religious chant called Kasida acompanied by 3 duff frame drums
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-07-12
Swaluu-Alah manyaana bilbay yinatil
- Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179496 , vital:43071 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-13
- Description: All items on this disc are included as example of the African adoptation of Arabic styles of music on the coast. This choice is composed of 12 young Swahili boys with a man soloist (el-ustadh) and three teachers playing the "duff" tambourines. Arabic and the lingua franca, Swahili, are part of the inheritance of all the coast dwellers and on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It is interesting to note how easily these African born Swahili children appear to adopt Arabic music with far greater facility that the efforts of most African children to sing European songs Kasida, Moslem Religious chants, with 3 Duff frame drums (tambourines).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Swaluu-Alah maachini-l-imaan II
- Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179491 , vital:43070 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-12
- Description: All items on this disc are included as example of the African adoptation of Arabic styles of music on the coast. This choice is composed of 12 young Swahili boys with a man soloist (el-ustadh) and three teachers playing the "duff" tambourines. Arabic and the lingua franca, Swahili, are part of the inheritance of all the coast dwellers and on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It is interesting to note how easily these African born Swahili children appear to adopt Arabic music with far greater facility that the efforts of most African children to sing European songs Kasida, Moslem Religious chants, with 3 Duff frame drums (tambourines).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Swaluu-Alah maachini-l-imaan I
- Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179478 , vital:43069 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-11
- Description: All items on this disc are included as example of the African adoptation of Arabic styles of music on the coast. This choice is composed of 12 young Swahili boys with a man soloist (el-ustadh) and three teachers playing the "duff" tambourines. Arabic and the lingua franca, Swahili, are part of the inheritance of all the coast dwellers and on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It is interesting to note how easily these African born Swahili children appear to adopt Arabic music with far greater facility that the efforts of most African children to sing European songs Kasida, Moslem Religious chants, with 3 Duff frame drums (tambourines).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Selengeto nyanda vilewamulya
- Authors: Alima Binti Feluze , Ganda women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-06-24
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/229358 , vital:49664 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2257 , XYZ6019a
- Description: Party song with female vocals and clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-06-24
Sameheni baba
- Authors: Nyamugumi Mihabo with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173300 , vital:42355 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-07
- Description: "Excuse me, father, I want to make it clear to Juma that he must not play with me, lest he die." The singers are all Nyamwezi who have come down to the East coast from the interior near Tabora and have now settled permanently at the coast in or around Dar-es-Salaam. These Nyamwezi singers of Dar-es-Salaam have an attractive way of singing their songs repeating each stanza after the soloist. This style may well have been copied from the Arabs or Swahili. Tatu Binti Ali is the young wife of Idi Selemani the organiser of the group. Hiyari ya moyo dance song for men and women..
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- Date Issued: 1950
Pemba ina siri
- Authors: Egyptian musical club , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179531 , vital:43075 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-16
- Description: The island of Pemba lies just north of Zanzibar and is the greater producer of cloves of the two islands. Love song, with 2 Udi, 1 Cello, 1 mandoline, 1 Dambak, 1 Kayamba rattle, and 3 violas.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Njagala kugenda
- Authors: Ali H. Wachibi , Four Old Ganda Women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-06-24
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/229340 , vital:49662 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2257 , XYZ6018a
- Description: Folk song for parties with Ndingidi lute
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-06-24
Nimechoka kusubiri
- Authors: Mohamedi A Bwagajuga , not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-07-11
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/231237 , vital:49868 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2541 , XYZ6086
- Description: Love song accompanied by a guitar
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-07-11
Ndikakowa wanyambo
- Authors: Tatu Binti Ali with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173291 , vital:42354 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-06
- Description: "I will go and marry somewhere else, because all the girls think I am not faithful." The singers are all Nyamwezi who have come down to the East coast from the interior near Tabora and have now settled permanently at the coast in or around Dar-es-Salaam. These Nyamwezi singers of Dar-es-Salaam have an attractive way of singing their songs repeating each stanza after the soloist. This style may well have been copied from the Arabs or Swahili. Tatu Binti Ali is the young wife of Idi Selemani the organiser of the group. Hiyari ya moyo dance song for men and women..
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950