Yave-Yave
- Authors: Group of 9 Lunda men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Katanga f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/242371 , vital:51034 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT507-L129 , Research no. L2Z1
- Description: A dance song, accompanied by drums, rattles and bottle, that greets the listener.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-24
Yave- yave (Kafoya greetings)
- Authors: Group of 9 Lunda men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Katanga f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139367 , vital:37731 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-01
- Description: The drummer used his heels to alter the pitch of the drum on which he sat. The drum was made of a rectangular box 21" x 10". Ceremonial farewell song with 1 box drum, hand beaten, 2 Litswakaie basket rattles and 1 bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Yaku Kasama munenu wamukake Nshibi
- Authors: Musonda, A , Mwale, L , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-19
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Bancroft mine f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/242281 , vital:51024 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT506-L128 , Research no. L2Y10
- Description: A song about a man who was arrested and relied on his uncle's wife to get him out of confinement.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-19
Ya ya, waye
- Authors: Kalemba and a large group of Lunda women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-18
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic Cite Indigene f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/243788 , vital:51188 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT519-L141 , Research no. L3C3
- Description: Indigenous folk song for the 'Kawidi dance' with singing accompanied by 2 pinned and weighted, handbeaten goblet drums with mirlitons.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-18
Ya ya woye
- Authors: Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba , 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/10962/139495 , vital:37744 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-10
- Description: The larger drum was also tapped on the side by a stick. The clapping was done with cupped hands. The Chief de Centre Kapenda, was the head of this group. Jadotville is the headquaters of the central region of the Union Miniere, the other 2 towns being Elizabethville in the East and Kolwezi in the West. It was originally famous for the fact that one of the mines, Shinkolobwe, was the first place in the world from which the famous Curie family obtained the radium for their experiments. At Panda, there is a museum of mineral crystals discovered in the Katanga mines. Kawidi dance with 2 goblet drums, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons, hand beaten.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Weufwaya muchinshi
- Authors: Mapulunga, William , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-10
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Chingola f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/240155 , vital:50805 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT483-L104 , Research no. L2P10
- Description: A topical song about respected women accompanied by rattle, bottle and guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-10
Wela welenu mama- o muku welada mi nshona (You must be clean, neat and tidy)
- Authors: Group of 14 Lunda men and 4 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139471 , vital:37741 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-07
- Description: The Kahaku dance is generally performed on ceremonial occassions. Kahaku dance song with struck bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Wela welenu mama - o muku welada mi nshona
- Authors: Group of Lunda men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-11
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/240456 , vital:50836 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT486-L107 , Research no. L2Q12
- Description: A kahaku dance song normally danced on ceremonial occasions accompanied by a struck bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-11
Udina kuzara ndowayami
- Authors: Gibson Zenzi with Luunda men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182877 , vital:43888 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-02
- Description: "My wife is shivering." A short phrase is quite sufficient upon which to hang the melody and rhythm for the local dance. The Luunda come to the mines of the Copperbelt in large numbers from their home in the north western districts of Northern Rhodesia. In common with many other African folk singers there is a gradual rise in pitch during this song. The empty bottles of different sizes are struck with light pieces of iron, such as 6" nails, or small bolts. Four Sikinta dance song with struck bottles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Udina Kuzara Ndowayami
- Authors: Zenzi, Gibsoni , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-01-10
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Not specified f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/214480 , vital:47955 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT270-F2 , Research no. F1B2
- Description: Sikinta dance song with struck bottles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-01-10
Tutole kantu panshi
- Authors: Children of the Mindola African school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182900 , vital:43891 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-05
- Description: Song used in the olden days when taking the Chief about by canoe. Canoe song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Tulele mam'we we u chiku chimbundu (We sleep here / The night mist)
- Authors: Kalemba and large 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/10962/139537 , vital:37748 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-13
- Description: The box drum was a roughly made instrument from the sides of a box or packing case, one side being covered by a skin to form the membrane. The player sat on his box and raised the pitch of the membrane by pressure from one heel. U chiku chimbundu dance with 1 goblet drum struck on the side by wooden beater, 1 box drum, hand beaten.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tulele mam' we u chiku chimbudu
- Authors: Kalemba and a large group of Lunda women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-18
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic Cite Indigene f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/243804 , vital:51190 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT519-L141 , Research no. L3C4
- Description: Indigenous folk song for the 'u chiku chimbundu' party dance, with singing accompanied by a hand-beaten box drum and a goblet drum struck on the side with a wooden beater.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-18
Tiana pa makulu
- Authors: Kashiala, Albertine , Group of Lunda women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-18
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic Cite Indigene f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/243969 , vital:51208 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT521-L143 , Research no. L3C9
- Description: Indigenous folk song for the 'Sikwita dance', with singing, intermittent yodelling and handclapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-18
Tiana pa makulu
- Authors: Group of Lunda women and Albertina Kashiala , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Katanga f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139528 , vital:37747 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-12
- Description: The antiphonal form of this item is interesting, the chorus changing their response to match the lead by the soloist, often repeating the final word of the solo as the first word of the chorus. Sikinta dance with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tata tata
- Authors: Simba, Tom , Mwansa, Moses , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-16
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/241862 , vital:50977 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT499-L120 , Research no. L2V15
- Description: Recitative unaccompanied, about a son asking his father to give him something so that his in-laws will like him.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-16
Sabwabwa
- Authors: Group of 5 Kete men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Katanga f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/242575 , vital:51057 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT509-L131 , Research no. L2Z7
- Description: Maza dance for men and women with 1 slit drum (canoe), 1 weighted cylindrical drum (Nguma), open hand beaten and 3 xylophones accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-24
Sabwabwa
- Authors: Group of 5 Kete men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Katanga f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139402 , vital:37735 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-03
- Description: The slit drum is called mutumba (the canoe) and the cylindrical drum is Nguma. This group is situated between the Lunda and the Luba. A notably fierce and savage people. They come from the extreme south of the Kasai-near the Angola border. This dance was (in the old days) danced with a slave in the midst. At the final "Ho" (characteristic of the dance) the slave's head was severed at a single blow. The 3 xylophones were propped up at sn angle of about 45 degrees by small forked sticks. The resonators were either gourds or lengths of bamboo with open mirliton. The bamboo resonators were palstered with mud, presumably to stop their cracking. Each note was attached to the frame with a simple cord, but prevented from slipping by a second string attached near the node and made fast onto the frame. The insulating material on the frame was a bundle of long grass in each case. The three xylophones were called:- Dujimba devase. " dwapakadie. " dwa mukuma. Maza dance for men and women with 1 slit drum (canoe), 1 weighted cylindrical drum (Nguma), open hand beaten and 3 xylophones.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nyambilichina twali akwawu ku Muwewu (Nyambilichi is taking other girls to Muwewu) (
- Authors: Group of 14 Lunda men and 4 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilungu f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139348 , vital:37729 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-13
- Description: The Lunda or Luunda people came into the territory which is now N. Rhodesia from the Congo. They now form a group of about 50,000 east of the Luapula river. Kahaku ceremonial dance song with rattle and struck bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nyambilichina twali akwawu ku Muwewu
- Authors: Group of Lunda men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-11
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/240473 , vital:50838 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT486-L107 , Research no. L2Q13
- Description: A kahaku dance song for ceremonies accompanied by rattle and stuck bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-11