Mwe baiyashi cenjeleni (My parents take care)
- Authors: B. Kabushi and D. Mwenya , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Mufulira Copper Mine f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151707 , vital:39162 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-04
- Description: This is a warning to bring up their children carefully or they will go to the bad. "I have 2 children, the boy is a 'tsotsi' (vagabond) and the girl is a Kapenta (a painted one) so I have given birth to 2 useless children." Mortality sing with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ulushimi lwa mukashana ne nsupa ya mfumu (The story of the girl and the chief's calabash)
- Authors: Agnes Bwenpe and group of small girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Bancroft Mine f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151806 , vital:39173 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-16
- Description: There was once a Chief who had a favourite wife to whom he gave a calabash. Now this Chief disappeared. One day she with the calabash, she found herself sailing down the river in it, and as she sang: "Ulushimi lwa mukashana ne nsupa ya mfunu." She sailed amongst the fish, some of which wanted to eat her. But she sang to them and they let her go. Afterwards she fell amongst crocodiles. But they too let her go when she sang to them and eventually she found herself in a village and gave it to the chief and put her in a hut where she was badly bitten by insects. However she did not kill any of them, as she was a kind and gentle woman. Then the chief sent word that she must come and undergo a test. Which was to pick out her own calabash from amongst many others. As she went one of the insects said to her: "Choose that calabash you see a fly settle on." So, when she swa all the calabashes spread out before her, she waited for a fly to settle on one. It settled on the smallest and she picked it up and said: "This is mine." Whereon the chief came out of his hut and to her amazement it was her own husband who said: "Now I know this is my own wife, because she recogonizes the calabash I once gave her." Isimi story with song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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
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
Tikonkote (The praying mantis)
- Authors: Sashi and group of Lumbo men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Mufulira Copper Mine f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151698 , vital:39161 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-03
- Description: "When you see the praying mantis, it means that someone is going to die. I will put a samll bone in the middle of the path so that it will kill an 'eagle' (An eagle is a synonym for a 'witch'") The singers employ the Kalela type of singing in organum. The similarity of magical symbolism of this kind with that of the middle ages in Europe is notable. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kakashimbi nkumuye mu s/c 5 ulucelo (The girl I met in section 5 this morning)
- Authors: C. Filimba and P. Kosimasi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Luwinga f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151797 , vital:39172 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-15
- Description: A certain man and woman met in section 5 (of the mine) and made an appointment to meet at the house at a certain hour, because the husband would be away at work at the time. Kalela dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Bome a ni lukela ky ntanda
- Authors: Bennt Falali abd Josias Kakambi Capiwe , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Caprivi f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183661 , vital:44041 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-02
- Description: Two simple times from the middle reaches of the upper Zambezi. Self delectative song with Kangombio (Mbira) fan shaped and mirliton, external resonator
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ulushimi lwa mukashana ne nsupa ya mfumu
- Authors: Bweupe, Agnes , Group of small girls , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-19
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia City not specified f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/196313 , vital:45750 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-505 , Research no. L2Y2
- Description: The narrator tells the story of the girl and the chief's calabash, and sings songs sung by the girl in the story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-19
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
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Iya weni pambalama (Who is that across the river coughing?)
- Authors: Group of young Bemba girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Nchanga mine f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151734 , vital:39165 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-08
- Description: "Iya weni pambala-ma siya kola." "Ndaina muKamba kope." On account of the peculiarities of Bemba music, it is not easy to tell whether a Bemba tune such as this is influenced by European music or not. Girl's wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Visimu vyangu vyotola
- Authors: Kitwe School Bemba 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 Kawambwa f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183771 , vital:44067 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-13
- Description: This song accompanies a game played with stones. The players squat in a circle and pass stones round from man to man in time with music. It has its orgin in some mission school and is not likely to be authentically Bemba. Singing game with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kaso Bia wasapwisha Bantu (Because of Castle beer, people go naked)
- Authors: B. Cungu and F. Musonda , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Mufulira Copper Mine f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151716 , vital:39163 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-05
- Description: The warning conveyed in this song is that people who spend their money on Castle beer (Kaso Bia) have none left even for clothes. European type beers are more expensive that the more familiar millet beers consumed by the African mine worker. Mortality sing with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nkunte njinga Andre Ciku (Andrew Ciku urged us to pedal fast on our bicycles)
- Authors: M. Sashi and group of Lumbo men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Mufulira mine f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151743 , vital:39166 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-09
- Description: "Andrwew Ciku urged us to pedal hard. We wanted to cross the Luwongo river to get to the copperbelt, but on the way we broke down, to our regret!" This type of parallel singing is called "Kalela" and is commonly used, they say, for topical songs. These boys were actually singing in a mixture of Bemba and Aushi. Topical song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Tatwaibombe incito yafilwa masoca
- Authors: Mulenga, David , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia City not specified f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/196302 , vital:45749 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-069 , Research no. C3X4
- Description: Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Tata Shibwalya
- Authors: Katilungu, Lawrence , Bemba Men and Women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia City f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/196262 , vital:45744 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-069 , Research no. C3X2
- Description: Drinking song for Mupukumo dance for men and women with rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
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
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Tamulela bantu baKuno
- Authors: Justine Mwamba , Group of Bemba men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kasamba f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183762 , vital:44066 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-12
- Description: "You people of this country do not come and share our mourning." Simple song, not unlike the preceeding childrens verses in style. This song is sung in the unmistakeable style of the Bemba people, in organum of thirds, which appear to be slightly sharp of tempered thirds. Drinking song, with 1 conical drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Lyalimba isuba lyalemba
- Authors: Katilungu, Lawrence , Bemba Men and Women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia City not specified f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/196271 , vital:45745 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-069 , Research no. C3X3
- Description: Walking song, sang when when coming from work.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949