E-ye-ye alawombi tombi
- Authors: Group of eight Lunda men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-16
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Rosberry f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/240658 , vital:50858 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT497-L118 , Research no. L2V2
- Description: Topical song, accompanied by struck metal, referring to how the girls lose the plaited hair that they draw into a wedge or mat on top of their heads.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-16
Cone nar neh-a
- Authors: Calender and Maringar Band , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-00-00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Sierra Leone city not specified f-sa
- Language: Creole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/204919 , vital:46837 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR0732 , Research no.WA2643
- Description: Calypso dance song performed by a small band of musicians
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-00-00
Gebede-gebede ulendo wasabwera (Pack-pack, to go and not return)
- Authors: Eight elderly women and two drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155784 , vital:39916 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-13
- Description: Gebede, gebede is the sound of putting ones things together and the banging together of boxes preparing for a journey. This said to be the most typical of all the Mang'anja dances. "Pack, pack, to go and not come back is like the journey when you do not say goodbye." Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles, drums and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kwa-kwa-kwa umaye (It is dry)
- Authors: Young men and women of Mwasi's village , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159594 , vital:40315 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-05
- Description: The Nyau dance, they say is performed in the dry season. The dancers put on rags and cover their faces and heads with feathers or grass masks so that they cannot be recognised. In some cases disobedient girls can be caught and beaten. It is an initiation dance for boys but the women instructors can use them for this purpose. It always appears to be girls who need instruction and never the boys who merely go through their initiation ceremonies. Nyau dance (mask dance) with two drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Nchuwa (The four row game)
- Authors: Donald Mpunda Banda and two Chewa men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159980 , vital:40363 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-01
- Description: "Even although you have given me Cinthele cloth, I will still run away to Baloni." Nchuwa is the game with four rows of holes or cups in the ground played with seeds or pebbles, and the sketch is meant to represent an exciting game between friends. It is a game of very ancient orign and is found widely throughout Eastern Africa under a number of different names and rules. It is said to have been imported into Africa by Arabs or people further East as long ago as the 10th century. Sketch-impromptu.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ndasaya may angu (I have lost my mother)
- Authors: A. A. C. Lubino and 2 Nyungwe women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Furancengo f-mz
- Language: Sena , Nyungwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156481 , vital:40007 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-07
- Description: A simple repetitive tune with little to say. Topical song with Sanzi mbira bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Panali Ntowi-towi (The bird Ntowi-towi)
- Authors: Kampala Mware and Chewa boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza, Kotakota District, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154086 , vital:39561 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-14
- Description: There was once a bird called Ntowi-towi, who went to a certain village to find a wife but he failed because he had thin legs. So he returned to his house. But later, some of the girls who had turned him down went to get fruit. On their way they wanted water to drink. But the bird refused eo allow them to drink as they had refused him. One girl thereupon decided to marry him after all, and they all sang "I came to your village to marry you and you refused me on account of my legs, now I will take you to be my wife." Now the girl and the bird stayed together and often sang the same song together. "I went to your house to marry you and you refused m because of my thin legs." Eventually the girl ran away from the bird, but he went on singing all alone the very same song. Story song (Nthanu)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ndaramba miranda kumudzi kwangu
- Authors: Lubino, Antonio A.C. , 2 Nyungwe women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-05-23
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Kankhomba f-mz
- Language: Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/251806 , vital:52168 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT588-M60 , Research no. M3F3
- Description: A topical song accompanied by sanzi mbira bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-05-23
Nchuwa
- Authors: Mpunda, Donald , Two Chewa men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-05-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
- Language: Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/252321 , vital:52225 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT594-M66 , Research no. M3H16
- Description: An impromtu sketch of the game nchuwa.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-05-28
Panali Ntowi-towi
- Authors: Mware, Kampala , Chewa boys , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-05-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
- Language: Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/252240 , vital:52215 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT593-M65 , Research no. M3H7
- Description: A nthanu story song about a bird going to a town to find a wife.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-05-28
Izwe Sasha Lilanga
- Authors: Mameyigudi and his dancers , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960-00-00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa KwaZulu Natal f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/204435 , vital:46784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR0694 , Research no.GU124
- Description: Indigenous music with call and response accompanied by drum and whistle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960-00-00
Bhutsu mutandarika
- Authors: Tapera, Jege , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1961
- Subjects: Zezuru (African people) -- Music , Folk music -- Zimbabwe , Karimba music -- Zimbabwe , Songs, Shona -- Zimbabwe , Mbira music -- Zimbabwe , Sub-Saharan African music , Vocal music -- Zimbabwe , Africa Rhodesia Bulawayo f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/58237 , vital:27108 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC001b-03
- Description: Traditional Zezuru song accompanied by karimba.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1961
Khanya Kude
- Authors: Mwamitwa, Fanisa , Shangaan women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Venda (African people) , Tsonga (African people) , Folk songs, Tsonga , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tzaneen f-sa
- Language: Venda , Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187885 , vital:44706 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-13
- Description: Fanisa Mwamitwa is the 'Sati waHosi', the wife of the Chief. The connection between the meaning of the words of the song and its description as a praise song is not clear. "Bright light (from afar) they mean you, Mindawaze, worrysome. Keep cool, you Mindawaze, the child is crying." Praise song - (in praise of herself)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
kwekwe
- Authors: Mokoena, Sephoto , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965-00-00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho city not specified f-sa
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/201317 , vital:46350 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR0554 , Research no.XU370
- Description: Traditional song, accompanied by the concertina
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965-00-00
Nzala mwana
- Authors: Lolaka , Wakwana Gerard and John Ouwerx , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965-00-00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo City not specified f-sa
- Language: Kikongo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/209624 , vital:47403 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR0924 , Research no.P85070H
- Description: Traditional dance song accompanied by various instruments and the bicycle horn
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965-00-00
UNkulunkulu akubophileyo makunga khululwa muntu
- Authors: Music workshop participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Kwanongoma sa
- Language: isiZulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/389514 , vital:68455 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC067b-07
- Description: Unaccompanied Zulu church choral hymn.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1977
Izani ngovuyo
- Authors: Zimbabwe mass participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1978
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Alice sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/334634 , vital:61911 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC324a-22
- Description: Xhosa mass church music accompanied by the drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1978
Masiye sikhumbule
- Authors: Music festival participants , Hirmer, O. , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1978
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Lumko sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/364156 , vital:65511 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC049a-23
- Description: Hymn, sung to the tune of 'O come all ye faithful' accompanied by the marimba.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1978
Title not specified
- Authors: Group 2 The Setswana church music participants , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1978
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bethlehem sa
- Language: Sesotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/336751 , vital:62177 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC327a-04
- Description: Church Music Workshop in Sesotho with Psalm 121
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1978
Title not specified
- Authors: Gobabis music workshop participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Gobabis sx
- Language: Khoekhoe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/338256 , vital:62365 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC330b-07
- Description: Nama religious song with text from Psalm 148 accompanied by clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1979