Nyirandabyiguze
- Authors: Twa women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Rundi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Africa Rwanda Shangugu f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148933 , vital:38787 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR058-05
- Description: Once in a time of famine, a woman went to look for food. Her search proving fruitless, in order to keep herself, she became a courtesan (she sold herself for food). The song is sung by small Batwa (pigmoid women) who sing in a style typical of their tribe with falling melodies and with clever hand clapping accompaniment. Party song with hand clapping
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- Date Issued: 1952
Bamurangahe
- Authors: Twa musicians of Chief Biniga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Shangugu f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148704 , vital:38765 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-06
- Description: Songs for the Intore dancers and their Imihamilizo dance, the traditional Tutsi dance. The opening cadenza by the leading horn player well demonstrates the technique of horn playing. Imihamilizo Tutsi dance songs with Makondera horns (composite) and drum
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- Date Issued: 1952
Kyarutema
- Authors: Twa musicians of Chief Biniga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Shangugu f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148699 , vital:38764 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-05
- Description: Songs for the Intore dancers and their Imihamilizo dance, the traditional Tutsi dance. The opening cadenza by the leading horn player well demonstrates the technique of horn playing. Imihamilizo Tutsi dance songs with Makondera horns (composite) and drum
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- Date Issued: 1952
Umuhororo
- Authors: Tutsi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Nyanza f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183606 , vital:44013 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-05
- Description: Composed for the opening of a new mission. Sung in praise of a hill on which a new church was built. The Tutsi singers are all members of a local club for evolues (clerks) etc. called 'La Jeuness du Ruanda'-the youth of Ruanda (Rwanda). The melody is clearly of foreign origin yet a certain indigenous quality remains. Praise song
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- Date Issued: 1952
Imihigo
- Authors: Tutsi man , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Shangugu f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148717 , vital:38766 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-07
- Description: The performer, a Tutsi man, recounts imaginary exploits to amuse the chief. A common custom amongst the Tutsi who have competitions of this sort in order to decide which is the most gifted narrator. An interesting recording for linguists. The recitation is introduced by a short praise cry by the people standing nearby. Recitation
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- Date Issued: 1952
Abiiru Drum Rhythms
- Authors: Team of Abuiiru drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Nyanza f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183587 , vital:44011 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-03
- Description: The whole set of drums should have been conical laced drums of the same shape but varying in pitch. At this time a number of them had been improvised from oil drums, 44 gallon and 8 gallon metal containers. The chief drummer is called-Umwiiro mukuru. The second drummer is called-Uwaura. The timekeeper drummer is called-Ishakwe. The beaters of drum sticks are called-Murisho (s), Imirisho (pl.). The names of the are from treble to bass. Lead drum-(in this case a small bucket drum)-Ishako. 1st drum-Nyahura, 2nd drum-Nterero, 3rd drum-Irubi, 4th drum-Luvugamahame, 5th drum-Chihumurizo. The leader plays his own drum and sometimes the three also on either side of him (4 all told) when setting a rhythm. His second in command also plays his own drum and sometimes one on either side (3 in all). The time setter stands out in front of the line and keeps the time going. This recording was made near a plantation of tall eucalyptus (blue gum) trees and the diffused echo from the boughs and leaves overhead can be clearly heard throughout. Team of Abuiiru drummers, 15 drums, conical, laced and closed, beaten with sticks (-14.22303)
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- Date Issued: 1952
Ni sa ikela ku mwanalushi
- Authors: Sons of Barotseland Patriotic Society Choir , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Barotseland f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183716 , vital:44055 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-07
- Description: The song is about a man who went home to his villag and fell ill. He wanted to go to hospital but his people tried to dissuade him. He replied, "I want to go to hospital and lie on a proper hospital bed" (mbeda). In the villages they lie on the ground. This song recounts the actual experience of the composer who was a boy working on the Northern Rhodesia Railways. Before these people were conquered by the Kololo they are said to have spoken the Siluyiana language. Topical song
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- Date Issued: 1952
Siya ni sike
- Authors: Sons of Barotseland Patriotic Society Choir , Davison Sililo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Barotseland f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183706 , vital:44053 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-06
- Description: This is the song from a story about a woman and her child who ere lost in the forest. Suddenly the child saw a coconut palm and asked its mother what the tree was. She answered: "Don't be afraid, my child, that is a sign we shall find our way home. It is significant that David Livingstone in one of his journals describes the impression that the palm tree was for him "A hieroglyph that spells 'far from home'." A possible explanation of this remark by the mother is that the palm trees grow mostly along the rivers, and once at the river she would be able to regain her sense of direction. This was recorded with heavy rain pouring down outside the Musaliili Hall, hence the background noise. Story song
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- Date Issued: 1952
Ngombe ya manengenenge
- Authors: Sons of Barotseland Patriotic Society Choir , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Barotseland f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183725 , vital:44056 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-08
- Description: The song is about a man who very much wanted to marry a certain girl; but had not enough cows to pay the bride price for her. So he made up his mind to go and work in order to earn enough money to buy the cows. He did so, bought the cows and married the girl. "Alleluya" is simply a cheerful refrain copied from the Christians. This song gives the impression of having been influenced by the Nguni of the eastern districts of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) rather than a song of true Lozi origin. Topical song
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- Date Issued: 1952
Muzamaelo wa mahule
- Authors: Sons of Barotseland Patriotic Society Choir , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Barotseland f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183671 , vital:44047 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-03
- Description: A song in which the women of easy virture are held up as a laughing stock in this way the community hopes to discourage them. The Lozi are well known for their morality songs which are sung for the express purpose of creating social solidarity. On account of the rain outside, the item was recorded inside the welfare hall thus giving it unwarrented and unsuitable reverberation for a folk song. Morality song with clapping
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- Date Issued: 1952
Kalima maundu-wo
- Authors: Sons of Barotseland Patriotic Society Choir , Davison Sililo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Barotseland f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183684 , vital:44049 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-04
- Description: A song about the time of the year in March when the people begin to cut the trees down to make new fields. The woman who was cutting trees and preparing the field asked a rabbit to look after her child. The rabbit however took the baby and ran away with it and the woman then sang this song to the rabbit asking him to bring back her child. This is the story "Tsuro Woye found in Southern Rhodesia. Story song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Teya-teya
- Authors: Sons of Barotseland Patriotic Society Choir , Davison Sililo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Barotseland f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183695 , vital:44051 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-05
- Description: This is the song taken from the story about a father who went out hunting, could find no buck and killed his child instead in the forest. But a bird that had seen what he did, sang that it was going to tell the people. So he killed the bird too, but hardly had he gone a few steps when there it was again. Again he killed it and again there it was, and so in the end the bird told the people. It is the parable of a guilty conscience. The reason why he killed his child, they said, was because he had gone out hunting and was unsuccessful and was so ashamed that he killed his child in the place of a buck. A very gruesome story! Story song
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- Date Issued: 1952
Sicembe
- Authors: Sirifino Mutare , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kasama f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183780 , vital:44068 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-14
- Description: This type of Mbira has a single manual clearly divided into left and right sections, the left having five notes, and the right six. The scale is carried by both sides in a customary though not regular alternation, thus from high to low the eleven notes are found:- L. R. L. R. R. L. R. R. L. R. L. Topical song, with Mbira, Chilimba ya waBemba
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mupukumo
- Authors: Sirifino Mutare , Two Bemba men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kasama f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183789 , vital:44069 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-15
- Description: The scale of this instrumet was:- 592, 544, 504, 456, 424, 376, 340, 308, 280, 252, 228 vs. With the exception of the new top intervals of the scale all the remainder are approximately 1 3/4 semitone each. The intervals measured in cents are:- 126, 208, 174, 172, 165, 182, 173 cents. This tune follows closely upon a well established and unmistakeably Bemba style of melody. When singing in parallel thirds the size of the consecutive thirds, taken from the measured scale would be:- 334, 382, 346, 337, 355 cents. Parallel fourths would be:- 508, 554, 511, 519, 520 cents. Drinking song with Mbira, Chilimba ya waBemba
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- Date Issued: 1952
Baryaningwe wa Ntwali
- Authors: Sekivura , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Rugerero f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148773 , vital:38772 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-12
- Description: Baryaningwe, son of Ntwali. "I, professional thief, I went to a place called Ruagi and stole a cow, but the owner saw me just as I was driving it out. So I was caught. I was taken into a hut and tied up. In my misery, I was asked for an Inanga zither and began to sing. I sang so well that the women and children begged for my release. I was freed but I did not know that my fellow-thieves had gone to tell my family what had happened. So whilst I was singing to all these people my relatives came to my help and my enemies spell-bound by my singing were taken unawares and thus I escaped. Legend. Recitative to instrumental accompaniment with Inanga trough zither.
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- Date Issued: 1952
Tawikana mutima pano
- Authors: Ruben Tancard Mbuluwundi , Tumbuka/Henga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Livingstonia f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185344 , vital:44367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-11
- Description: "If people are jealous of you in a village because of your success, your fowls and your cattle, your wives and your children, then you should get up and go to another village and not live among jealous people any more." Topical song
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- Date Issued: 1952
Owachitawala
- Authors: Philemon Kalela , Group of Bemba men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183798 , vital:44070 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-16
- Description: A song making fun of the Watchtower sect which holds its meetings every Monday and Wednesday in different private houses. The singers were alleged to be Catholics but that did not stop their singing the songs of the rival church. The word Chitawala is made up of the syllables of the English word heard by African Wachi-ta-wa-la. The local Bemba being unable to say an'R', preferring the 'L'. Topical song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Abasungu balisa-we tata
- Authors: Philemon Kalela , Group of Bemba men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183808 , vital:44071 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-17
- Description: "The White people have come, father, they are flying in the sky. They have made the smelter. They have made the shaft. They brought money. They have come here for good, they will never turn back from our country. They have settled in our (Lamba) country, these settlers of the Copper Belt." This refers to great industrial intrusion into this part of Africa where large deposits of copper are now being mined in what used to be a remote and densely wooded part of the country. Topical song
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- Date Issued: 1952
Ingaju
- Authors: Performer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Nyanza f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148677 , vital:38762 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-04
- Description: Accompanied by 2 drums, one conical, laced, closed, one long cylindrical, pinned. Makondera horn band of the Mwami of Ruanda
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Ikizire
- Authors: Performer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Nyanza f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148668 , vital:38761 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-03
- Description: Accompanied by 2 drums, one conical, laced, closed, one long cylindrical, pinned. Dance tunes for Ntore dance, with Makondera gourd horns
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952