Mbainaka (Farewell-I am going)
- Authors: Alexis Chovu and group of 12 Bena Shimba women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Northern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Bakwanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139201 , vital:37715 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-03
- Description: The song is that of a man wo quits his village with no hope of ever seeing again. It may also - it appears - express the feelings of a woman whose husband has sent her away. Lament with 3 singing gourds (Chipuri), 1 basket rattle (-12.54-), 1 bottle (-12.17-) and hand clapping (-12.03-).
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- Date Issued: 1957
Yarira ngosa (Ngosa declares Adolescent verses)
- Authors: B. Makariki and 3 boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Kaonde (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kasempa f-za
- Language: Kaonde
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139292 , vital:37723 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-07
- Description: Ngosa declares that he has just come from Ndola where he has seen a fine caterpillar tractor. Ngosa tells his friend about this tractor and goes back himself to Ndola. "On your way back, replies his friend, convey our greetings to Teresa who lives in the Lamba country." The pre occupation of small boys with the shape of new motoe cars and other pieces of machinery such as tractors, appears to be shared by African boys as well. Adolescent verses.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Kahuru ngoma ayo mapmanda (Rabbit plays the drum)
- Authors: B. Makariki and 3 boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Kaonde (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kasempa f-za
- Language: Kaonde
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139261 , vital:37720 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-06
- Description: The song is sung for the rabbit to dance. This appears to be a traditional verse. Other 4 young boys said they added a few words and names of countries like "India", just to make the verse interesting. Adolescent verses.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Chipuri (The singing gourd)
- Authors: Group of 12 Bena Shimba women and Alexis Chovu , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Northern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Bakwanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139192 , vital:37713 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-02
- Description: The hand clapping was done more softly with capped hands. Morality song with 3 Chipuri singing gourds, 1 basket rattle, 1 bottle and hand clapping.
- 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
Malona diya wadikenge leli kufwa (Malona was warned of danger)
- 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/10962/139357 , vital:37730 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-14
- Description: "Malona was warned of danger but she paid no attention and thus met with an accident." This song follows common Lunda pattern with the chorus singing in organum. The Lunda tribe occupy the watershed from which three great rivers arise: the Zambezi, the Lualaba and the Kasai, the one flowing east to the Indian ocean and the other two comprising the main southern branches of the Congo flowing westwards to the Atlantic. Kahaku ceremonial dance song with rattle and struck bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Emu alunda kuwaha kwenu (You, Lunda, are a handsome people)
- 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/10962/139451 , vital:37739 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-06
- 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 (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
Kachancha
- 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) Kasai f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139416 , vital:37736 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-04
- 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.
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- Date Issued: 1957
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
E-ye-ye asemanga aweni akweti mana (There are two kinds of women)
- Authors: Group of 6 Lunda men. Leader: Conguboyi Ntambo , 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/10962/139310 , vital:37725 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-09
- Description: There are two sorts of mothers. - Those who care for their children, love them and look after them and who thus earn people's admiration.- The other neglect their children and do not care for them.- And fot these women no one has any respect. Sikinta party dance song with 2 struck bottles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Eya mulanda kankola kami (I like my girl)
- Authors: Group of 6 Lunda men. Leader: Conguboyi Ntambo , 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/10962/139319 , vital:37726 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-10
- Description: "If a man has a girl he loves and she has gone away, he must sing this song in order to remember her.". Sikinta party dance song with 2 struck bottles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
E-ye-ye kusumbukila kulunda (The Lunda marriage)
- Authors: Group of 6 Lunda men. Leader: Conguboyi Ntambo , 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/10962/139301 , vital:37724 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-08
- Description: The Chief Mwinilunga Kalongisha is said to have destroyed the chieftainship of his younger brother and therefore lost the respect of his people. Sikinta party dance song with 2 struck bottles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
E-ye-ye alawombi tombi (I have lost my hair-do)
- Authors: Group of 8 Lunda men and 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/10962/139328 , vital:37727 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-11
- Description: The girls of this tribe plait their hair and draw it out into a wedge or mat on the top of the head. It is the loss of this bunch of hair to which this song refers. Topical song with struck metal.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kakwezhi (The month)
- Authors: Group of 8 Lunda men and 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/10962/139333 , vital:37728 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-12
- Description: The moon (month)in which my lover told me he would come has passed and he has not come. The story ends with an enumeration od local football wins and loss. Topical song with struck metal.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Wadianda wa Bena Shimba (We are the people of Bena Shimba)
- Authors: Group of 9 Bena Shimba women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Northern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Bakwanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139183 , vital:37712 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-01
- Description: This group belonged to the Bena Shimba clan. As well as tipping and sometimes singing into their gourds through a length of metal pipe or tube, the gourd-blowers also struck the sides of the gourds with their hands. The gourds of this group were handsomely decorated with metal studs arranged in patterns. When asked when they performed this song, the answer was, "we sing it for funerals, but also on any sad occassion, for example when a man has to pay a large sum of money to another. Lament with 3 singing gourds (Chipuri), 1 basket rattle (-12.54-), hand clapping (-12.03-) and 1 bottle (-12.17-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mutshwa kusaeuhamhish Musoka wa (The Judge, Musoka, is going)
- 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/10962/139376 , vital:37732 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-02
- Description: The memember of the group who sets the rhythm is called "Mbayo." The two basket rattles Litswakaie are made of a basket work woven onto a piece of gourd for a base. Ceremonial farewell song with 1 box drum, hand beaten, 2 Litswakaie basket rattles and 1 bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
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
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
Kankola kame
- 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/10962/139513 , vital:37746 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-11
- Description: The song is introduced in a long statement by the leader while the others accompany her with a double clap in triple time. The song ends with the leader calling out: "A-ya-ya-ya." to which they reply: "A-ya." Sikinta dance with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957