Nyele/Horns
- Authors: 17 Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138490 , vital:37642 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-14
- Description: An experimental recording of the Nyele horns, to demonstrate their tuning, the order of their appearance and general scheme of melody. They are commonly played with drums and not by themselves alone, and are employed upon various ceremonial occasions such as funerals and large gatherings. They vary in size from about 5" to 18" long and are taken from a variety of antelope. Names of Nyele pipes (from smallest to largest) 1. Kampeko. 2. Simulya sikiri. 3. Senseku. 4. Jungainga. 5. Pindakati. 6. Muwere. 7. Siamupa. 8. Mpako. 9. Fulwa. 10. Saina. 11. Mulundu chigabana. 12. Gapalikwa. 13. Fumbira momba. 14. Tiabutiabu. 15. Tandamubbgwa. 16. Tandawanyoko. 17. Tukirauso. Horn ensemble with set of 17 Nyele antelope end-blown horns.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Indakurira shua (I cry for my friend (duet))
- Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138198 , vital:37608 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-07
- Description: The grain being pounded was "munga", one of the millets which had first to be sieved in a basket, in order to get rid of the husks. It was poured into the mortar and water was added in order to prevent the powdery meal from flying up. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ndime mukabaryibaryi basankwa (All the young men like me)
- Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138189 , vital:37605 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-06
- Description: The grain being pounded was "munga", one of the millets which had first to be sieved in a basket, in order to get rid of the husks. It was poured into the mortar and water was added in order to prevent the powdery meal from flying up. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Zumina unditole ulibama (If toy don't love me, send me back to my mother)
- Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138207 , vital:37609 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-08
- Description: The bracelet on the wristof one of the women pounding can be clearly heard. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Sheme yasenzana wa mai-we
- Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138216 , vital:37610 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-09
- Description: The song was done by small girls of about 12 years old. One did the singing, the other the 'shushing'. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
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- 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.
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- Date Issued: 1957
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.
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- Date Issued: 1957
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.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Muzemu
- Authors: Balizi ba Milopa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Livingstone f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138837 , vital:37677 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-08
- Description: The Muzema is a Tonga or Tonka item which has been adopted by the Museum players for their own performance. The dance is a popular entertainment dance in the Zambezi Valley around the Victoria Falls region. Muzemu dance for young men and women with 3 Milupa conical drums (1) Sikumwa (2) Kajakiri (3) Omutuwa and the Namalwa friction drum. Also Mulai double basket rattles and Silimba xylophone x 12.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Takundambi kumulumi wako (Never mention me to your husband)
- Authors: Blakufus Simukolo and "White" Korio , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138270 , vital:37618 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-15
- Description: "I cannot marry a Luvale girl, or a Shona, because they put on ties. Their only duty is to cut grass, therefore I cannot marry a woman like that." Both singers were full of good beer. Two notes. 416 and 228 vs. Instrument stopped by the left thumb pressed against the longer section of the string at approximately 3 inches from the straining wire. Party song with Kalumbo bow. One-stringed, gourd resonated, struck with reed.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Takundambi kumulumi wako (Never mention me to your husband)
- Authors: Blakufus Simukolo and "White" Korio , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138279 , vital:37617 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-15
- Description: "I cannot marry a Luvale girl, or a Shona, because they put on ties. Their only duty is to cut grass, therefore I cannot marry a woman like that." Both singers were full of good beer. Two notes. 416 and 228 vs. Instrument stopped by the left thumb pressed against the longer section of the string at approximately 3 inches from the straining wire. Party song with Kalumbo bow. One-stringed, gourd resonated, struck with reed.
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- Date Issued: 1957
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.
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- Date Issued: 1957
We ngoma mashiana migoti nokwinta (The dance I have danced throughout the mines)
- Authors: C. Yamba, J. Kabalale and G. Lupala , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
- Language: Aushi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140132 , vital:37838 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-10
- Description: "The song we are going to sing you is so interesting that you will even leave your supper to come and listen to us even the police with their wives and children have left their duties just to come and hear. The Lamba people are making fun of us and saying we Aushi/Lumbo have no copper mine. But Lake Bengwelu is our mine because wheras you Lamba, you get all your wealth from the mines, we get it from our fish. In place of the jack hammers we have a net. The miners use a rock drilling machine underground, and we use a Mukwano net." Kalela dance song.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Bamba nzi munyika (What they are saying in the country)
- Authors: Chakobola Sheni , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139082 , vital:37703 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-14
- Description: The singer had his noise pierced (the tip of the septum), which until recently was a common practice among Tonga. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Kuzumana makua (Do not agree with Europeans)
- Authors: Chakobola Sheni , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139077 , vital:37702 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-13
- Description: The singer had his noise pierced (the tip of the septum), which until recently was a common practice among Tonga. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Pindo yaka iwile (My whistle has dropped)
- Authors: D. Mwanambuyu , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mangu f-za
- Language: Lozi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139814 , vital:37787 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR051-10
- Description: "I have dropped my whistle. I must run back, for otherwise somebody will pick it up." The tuning as follows:- 472, 440, 396, 356, 320, 296, 260, 236, 220, 198, 178, 148, 118 v.p.s. Self-delactative song with Kangombio fan-shaped mbira with external resonator and mirliton.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Nafwaya fauya cibamu candi (Looking for my girl))
- Authors: Dyson Simwinga and Bemba 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/10962/151689 , vital:39160 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-02
- Description: "I went to look for my girl, but they told me she had gone to the beer-hall. So I put on my best suit and took my bicycle called "Hummer sports" and went to the beer-hall to look for her. But I found her drinking with her friends and when they saw me, they put on dark glasses. "She came up to me and said "give me a kiss", but I refused saying: "You have accepted beer from these other men." Love song with guitar.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Nguwenda mela (See how deep the water)
- Authors: Edward Panisi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139064 , vital:37701 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-12
- Description: This was performed by a small boy of about 11 or 12 years old, who is clearly already cut out to be a musician and leader of dances. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Tamanangu (Give me water)
- Authors: Edward Panisi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139059 , vital:37700 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-11
- Description: This was performed by a small boy of about 11 or 12 years old, who is clearly already cut out to be a musician and leader of dances. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tuibale bonse nwe nseba (Let's flock together like nseba birds)
- Authors: Edward Shoni and group of 6 Aushi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
- Language: Aushi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140105 , vital:37833 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-07
- Description: "Come, everyone, flock together like the nseba birds, which are never alone. and let us sing this song." Sung when on the way to some festive occassion. Walking song.
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- Date Issued: 1957