Zagambayo mabilo mabilo (Run, Zagambayo, run)
- Authors: Thungu Giti with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nzega f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173540 , vital:42382 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-13
- Description: Zagambayo had a friendly fight with another man in which it had been arranged that the loser should pay a cow. Zagambayo lost and was told to run and fetch his cow. The Nzega is the leaping dance action where the men leap into the air in time with the music. Puba dance song for men and women.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Ikulangamilaga kwilunde
- Authors: Mikengemalo Chaba with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173331 , vital:42357 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-09
- Description: "The red necked cock looked up to the sky." The cutting of cicatrices on the face is accompanied by songs such as these, and by festivities and dancing. There is a local breed of fowls which have no feathers on their necks and very red skin. The song refers to a certain diviner who used to smear his face and neck with red earth. The people of the village can be heard chatting and laughing during the song, and a bird can be heard in the background of the second song. Ucheyeki song for cutting cicatrices.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kamenemene kanokimilembe
- Authors: Mwikuru Kija with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Maswa f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173791 , vital:42411 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR152-12
- Description: 'A faithless husband is known by the way he neglects his house, drinks carelessly and talks to anyone." The picture of a disolute man. The Wigasha dance is done sitting, the feet and arms only being used to make gestures in unision. Wigasha dance song for men and women.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Manyanga drum rhythms I
- Authors: Husuni Isike, Salumu Athman, Ramadhani Khuluwa , 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 Tabora f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172950 , vital:42299 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-05
- Description: The laced conical drums provide the rhythmic bass, while the player of the goblet drum supplies the syncopation. The sharp sound is produced by stricking the membrane of the drum with loose fingers. The muted sound by closed fingers and the raised note by pressure from one elbow on the membrane. Three conical drums, one goblet drum (-14.51101-) and small bells (-12.55-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Mwangalile leke ndali na wasoga
- Authors: Hashima Bin Kilamata with Nyamwezi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173246 , vital:42349 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-01
- Description: "Everyone despises me because I make love to ugly women." The leader was dressed up in his dancing kit, with feather head dress, red ochre on the face and rag dress. The singers were workers on the Mwadui diamond mines, recruited locally. The song features a character whom they call Sajeni Meja (Sergeant Major) no doubt on account of the fact that several of them served for a while in the K.A.R., the Kings' African Rifles. During the singing they call out the familiar cry used by the soilders of the King's African Rifles. The moral problems of the disintegrated family and tribal life present themselves at every turn and especially in the towns or industrial areas where large bodies of men are attracted to work. Hiyari ya moyo dance song for men and women, with metal cylindrical drum, and conical pegged drum and bells.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Uhimila isekanakali nasukumbe (Uhilila was our best dancer)
- Authors: Juma Bin Nyela with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173356 , vital:42362 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-11
- Description: "Uhimila was so fine a dancer that even Kihimyali would bow down and clap his hands." All African tribes seem to idolize their good dances. The cutting of cicatrices on the face is accompanied by songs such as these, and by festivities and dancing. There is a local breed of fowls which have no feathers on their necks and very red skin. The song refers to a certain diviner who used to smear his face and neck with red earth. The people of the village can be heard chatting and laughing during the song, and a bird can be heard in the background of the second song. Ucheyeki song for cutting cicatrices.
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- Date Issued: 1950
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
Harusi II
- Authors: Ngayamiso Kitunga , 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 Tabora f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172923 , vital:42296 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-02
- Description: Tunes played at weddings. The instrument was new and the notes not well hammered so the tone of the instrument was not as good as it might have been. Nevertheless the music is attractive. The tuning from left to right was:- 448, 372, 320, 244, 208, 168, 122, 244, 284, 336, 372, 416, 488 giving a heptatonic scale of:- 488, 448, 416, 372, 336, 320, 284, 244 vs. These items were recorded at Itetemia, the village of Chief N. S. Fundikira. Wedding tune, with Malimba Likembe.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nigwa milango jayu hilima
- Authors: Ernest Pole with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shinyanga f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173513 , vital:42379 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-10
- Description: "I have heard the chief's dance, Milango! Let's go and join the dance." The Puba dance is done in teams. The girls in two lines and the boys in two lines behind them. They move to and fro in file and leap into the air in time with the rhythm of the dance music. Puba dance song for men and women with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nyilamba wa tala yakwe (If a Nyilimba comes)
- Authors: Mwanaluchiwa Makanyela with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shinyanga f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173549 , vital:42383 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-14
- Description: The Nyilamba clan has a reputation for telling lies. So they say "When a Nyilimba comes to your house, give him food by himself where he cannot take part in the conversation or he will go awayand distort what was said, and so make trouble for you. The Nyilimba come from the Singida District to the eastwards. The recording was made at the Williamson Diamond Mine. Puba dance song for men and women.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Mulebone naliyagamba lya ntemi salamba
- Authors: Masanja Nyema with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Lohumbo Baraza f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173309 , vital:42356 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-08
- Description: 'Come and see me, I am the Chief's important man." The Sukuma people are well known for their singing which plays a prominent part in their social lives. Wedding song.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Ngoma yalilamuno yayenda Maraya Pemba
- Authors: Bangilana Nduhila with Zinza 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 Nyalulungo f-tz
- Language: Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172759 , vital:42277 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-10
- Description: "He is playing his drum well because he is hoping to pick up a girl to take with him to Pemba." The drumming is similar to that found over the border in Ruanda-Urundi (Rwanda), but the singing is not. Kilongo dance song for men and women, with 3 conical laced drums played with sticks and clapping (-12.03-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kwahere wasalenge
- Authors: Masudi Bini Amani with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Itetemia f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173165 , vital:42339 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR149-06
- Description: "Goodbye! and stay well until my return." This song appears to be one of the best known in the Nyamwezi country. Topical song, with 3 conical drums, 2 played with sticks and one with hands.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nipande mpola baskeli
- Authors: Wibingile Kabaza , 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 Nyalubungo f-tz
- Language: Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172709 , vital:42273 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-06
- Description: "I will ride the bicycle carefully because I am tired." The microphone started beneath the instrument and was moved above when he started singing in order to show the difference of tone between the upper and lower surfaces of the resonator. It is interesting to note that unlike the Likembe Mbira further south, the resonator of this instrument is broader at the top than at the bottom, i.e. the bridge end is the broader. The scale was:- 332, 308, 280, 252, 228, 204, 184, 166 vs. Self delecatative tune, with Marimbe Likembe, box resonated, 18 notes.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Ng’wadila ng’wiza wani baba rumi
- Authors: Luchenje Nyanda with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwanza f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173614 , vital:42389 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR152-01
- Description: "How do you do chief, we greet you by playing bells. Before we go do our dance we need charms to help us." A song sung before dancing. Dancing among the Sukuma is often a matter of competition between teams, the size of the audience attracted to watch each team indicating their relative popularity. Charms are frequently used to give them luck and skill, they say, in dancing. The melody of this song is memorable and beautifully balanced, it reminds one of the old English song. "One man went to mow, went to mow a meadow." Wigasha dance song for men.
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- Date Issued: 1950
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..
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- Date Issued: 1950
Bana wane namuhekesha
- Authors: Bunwenge Meng'weta with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kisesa Baraza f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173459 , vital:42373 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-04
- Description: "Let me tell you, my children, I am thin on account of my charms, I want to find better charms to use at my dances." The Sukuma are great believers in charms of all kinds for all occasions. Bugika dance song for men and women.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Ikulangamilaga kwilunde
- Authors: Mikengemalo Chaba with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173318 , vital:42359 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-09
- Description: "The red necked cock looked up to the sky." The cutting of cicatrices on the face is accompanied by songs such as these, and by festivities and dancing. There is a local breed of fowls which have no feathers on their necks and very red skin. The song refers to a certain diviner who used to smear his face and neck with red earth. The people of the village can be heard chatting and laughing during the song, and a bird can be heard in the background of the second song. Ucheyeki song for cutting cicatrices.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Bugenda kilo
- Authors: Bangilana Nduhila with Zinza 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 Nyalulungo f-tz
- Language: Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172750 , vital:42276 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-09
- Description: 'You are too fond of visiting villages in search of women. One day you will meet an angry man who will hit you." The drumming is similar to that found over the border in Ruanda-Urundi (Rwanda), but the singing is not. Kilongo dance song for men and women, with 3 conical laced drums played with sticks and clapping (-12.03-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Sumpalumi
- Authors: Sanyenke Gethula with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kisesa f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173410 , vital:42367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-15
- Description: "Waya, waya, Shitende is up on the hill. Birds are flying below him. Shitende, waya, waya." Their neighbours still raid them for their cattle and have to be fought off. Why the lion should have spots like a leopard is not clear, except that a young lion retains for a while the spotted marks with which it is born. Fighting song.
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- Date Issued: 1950