Khawuxheliso wakalo haha (Will you say what is wrong, ha ha)
- Authors: Group of Qwathi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Tembu (African people) , Field recordings , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Engcobo f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139583 , vital:37753 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR049-04
- Description: In the middle of this song the headman and the owner of the hut got up, delievered a rousing speech and stepped back to his place on the left of the door, very pleased with himself. After that the woman resumed singing with renewed vigour, stood up and accompanied themselves by a double stamp instead of the single stamp usually heard further south. Topical song sung in the evening with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Khoi khoi ri yo tola tshimange
- Authors: Venda boys from Magidi area , performer not specified , composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Limpopo Province f-sa
- Language: Venda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/404561 , vital:70082 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , JBFT14-KV1-KV1A2A
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kholomo dza tswiwaho
- Authors: Gerson Mulaudzi , Performer not specified , composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Limpopo Province f-sa
- Language: Venda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/405640 , vital:70191 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , JBFT14-KV3-KV1E6
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ki mangi ya uawize mali (Who stole the money?)
- Authors: Group of Lozi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mangu f-sa
- Language: Lozi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139718 , vital:37772 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR051-02
- Description: This recording was received with enthusiasm by the large good-natured crowd. Siyomboka dance song with 1 xylophone on a stand, 3 Milupa drums, conical and pegged.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kolombo musambo wakalwa kuba
- Authors: Group of Lulua men , Perfomer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic republic of Congo city not specified f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345587 , vital:63294 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP3961-2559a
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kontae iya konta (Kontae)
- Authors: Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , 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/10962/139976 , vital:37819 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-10
- Description: Admirers came up and put money in the player's guitar whilst he played. "One who has not yet married has one more hill to climb." "All young people should get married-is the advice of an old person to the young. Topical song with guitar, bottle and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Krubo
- Authors: Group of Hlangwini men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151300 , vital:39049 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR064-02
- Description: "When we were going to Swendlana, the watchers said: 'attach', and the whole world burst." The translation of this item, as given on the spot, is far from clear and needs further elucidation. The song was sung, they say, during the last century when the Hlangwini people came down from Zululand and ousted the Sotho. Ihubo old fighting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kudandaula kwakunala ulombala
- Authors: Egesi Londoni , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people)--Music , Africa Malawi Boma Liwonde f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151947 , vital:39190 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-15
- Description: This song was accompanied on an improved bangwe with rather more reasonance than the locally made board zither. Tuning of the instrument:- 388, 364, 324, 288, 276, 236, 212 vs. Topical song with Bangwe m'kulu zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kufa kusina dangwe
- Authors: Simon Sitole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Mt. Selinda f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181798 , vital:43769 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-12
- Description: "Death does not take the first born first. I may die out in the country. See, ,ata, I am struggling. I am trying my best, Father, my heart is shaking, shaking." Wistful song with Mbira dza WaNdau
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kukala Kokela (Start the song)
- Authors: Group of 5 Lozi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Lozi (African people) , Africa Zambia Nchanga Mine Compound f-za
- Language: Lozi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152124 , vital:39215 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR067-16
- Description: This Silimba xylophone is built on a rough frame with X crossed legs at either end raising it approximately 3 feet off the ground. Each note is attached at both ends by a string through two holes and has a separate gourd resonator with open mirliton buzzer. Siyamboka dance song with 1 Silimba xylophone (x9 notes), resonator on frame and mirliton.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kulangula-ka
- Authors: Kiposho , 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/10962/151752 , vital:39167 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-10
- Description: An old Bemba song with many now obsolete words and phrases from which the meaning has escaped over the age. Historic song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kunukizembe pheshakwenciba (The smell of a battle axe across the Kei)
- Authors: Group of young Xhosa men and boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150687 , vital:38997 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-15
- Description: We were told that this group of Xhosa lads were from Christian homes. The tune is connected to the same dance for young boys and girls between the ages of about 12-17 years. It is a dance song the group of young people use on their way to the home where the party is to take place. The dance itself takes place in a hut. Mbayizelo dance song, with harmonica.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kupa lomba uachi lela mezhi
- Authors: Large group of Kasai women and 5 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Bakwakulumba-Kalamuzeu f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183913 , vital:44083 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-04
- Description: One drummer raised and lowered the pitch of his drum by pressing his left elbow on and off the membrane of the drum. This excellent item gives a good impression of the spirit of the Mambala dance, the attractive lift to the rhythm, the sure participation of the dancers and the clever drumming of the men. The tone value of the mirliton placed on the side of the closed drums is well illustrated. The Mambala is clearly an enjoyable dance. Mambala dance with 4 goblet drums, closed, pinned, weighted with mirlitons and hand beaten, pieces of wood struck together, metal bell used as rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kurangarira a Masewe (I am thinking of Masewe)
- Authors: Shenge Mashowa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Africa Mozambique Maceques f-mz
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152042 , vital:39206 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR067-08
- Description: "I am thinking of 'Masewe' (the name by which she calls she calls him), who has gone far away." (This part is supposed to be sung by the wife) "Then (says the singer) I am doing very hard work at Kariba, working with Italians. Oh! when you see our Italian working very high, high, high (litt, sky, sky, sky) you think he is going to fall. But he does not fall and he does the job. The singer starts his song with a nostalgic remark attributed to his wife referring to him by his pet-name, but goes on to remark on his work at the Kariba dam, and then fearlessness of the Italian workmen employed by the contractors. Impresit, to erect the machinery. The riggers assembling the giant steel cranes, crushers, conveyor belts and the like, high above the valley where the dam is being built, take constant risks which are admited by their African helpers. Topical song with mbira dza waNdau.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kuwowa wata kuwowa
- Authors: Fred Kuisl , Performer not specified , composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo city not specified f-cg
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/346899 , vital:63441 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP3967-2560b
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kuyashisa e Mqhobo
- Authors: Chief Buthelzi and his tribesmen , Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa city not specified f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/396271 , vital:69164 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , GM01-05-TR12-A-3
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kuḽa ndi nnyi kuḽa Nkawe
- Authors: Group of Venda boys , performer not specified , composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Limpopo Province f-sa
- Language: Venda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/409185 , vital:70564 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , JBFT20-KV18-KV7C3D
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kuḽa ndi nnyi, ku no nga Rambuḓa
- Authors: Venda boys , performer not specified , composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Limpopo Province f-sa
- Language: Venda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/409005 , vital:70545 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , JBFT20-KV17-KV7C1D
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kuḽa ndi nnyi, ku no nga Rambuḓa
- Authors: Tshenwane and Selina Tshifularo , performer not specified , composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Limpopo Province f-sa
- Language: Venda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/409014 , vital:70546 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , JBFT20-KV17-KV7C1E
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kwa Kazembe okutomboka kana twana (In our country when we are drunk we start dancing)
- Authors: Three young Luunda men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kazembe f-za
- Language: Ruund
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139924 , vital:37813 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-05
- Description: The Luunda style os singing is often indistinguishable from that of their neighbours the Bemba and this simple drinking song is no exception. Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957