Bandiya yo
- Authors: Nakule ,and two other players and dancers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Nguru f-cg
- Language: Zande/Bandiya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167803 , vital:41511 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0123-03
- Description: These loose note xylophones are played by three ad sometimes four men sitting on either side of the instrument. The Zande dance is performed in a circle to the cheerful sound of the xylophone. All the dancers move in union with small steps in a set pattern which ensures that the circle moves around gradually in an anti-clockwise direction. A characteristic gesture by Zande dancers is the holding out of the hands, palms upwards gently raising and lowering the forearms in time with the music. Zande dance with Kponingbo xylophone.
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- Date Issued: 1952
Banga
- Authors: Zaka Francois and Benge wommen , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Bondo f-cg
- Language: Benge-Baati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168935 , vital:41662 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-09
- Description: The notes of this instrument had holes pierced at one end to enable them to be fixed to the banana stalk by slips of bamboo. The beaters are made of a light fibrous wood (Dukwa) and are called Yokobu. The wood used to make the notes is called Ngula, and is also used to make slit drums. It is red when cut. It is sometimes used, they say, to make furniture for Europeans. Topical song with Kpingbi, six note xylophone, loose notes, one peg each, on banana stalks.
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- Date Issued: 1952
Baningba
- Authors: Iyenga Francois and friend Eleo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Bondo f-cg
- Language: Zande/Bandiya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167422 , vital:41478 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0122-11
- Description: The Zande are a Sudanic people and are found along the north eastern border of the Congo and Southern Sudan. They are an active military tribe with great influence and power in the whole of this area, their young men being noted for their bravery. This tune set to a topical song is in the common Zande dance measure and a Zande audience hearing it would be likely to start their attractive dance action in spite of the accompanying instrument being a Likembe and not a xylophone which is commonly used for dancing on account of its greater volume of sound. The player tuned up his instrument begining with the tone centre 440 vs. The order of notes from left to right was:- 880, 648, 488, 360, 244, 220, 180, 324, 440, 584, 720, 292 vs. Topical song with 2 Ekembe, 12 note Likembe Mbiras.
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- Date Issued: 1952
Barberton Special
- Authors: The Star Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock mine f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152756 , vital:39339 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-04
- Description: This "gnome-like"" music, so easily played and accompanied has swept into popularity since 1956. It has an immediate effect upon young Africans, especially those under twenty and perhaps even more so upon the under ten year olds. Every tune on the whistle-flutes or penny whistles enjoys the mane of "special: a trick learnt from gramophone record titles. They all imitate other tunes in an urban/folk manner until there is no telling which tune came first, which is the original, and which is the imitation. Town dance with 2 guitars (-10.58-), 2 penny whistle-flutes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Baroka rifeng-rifeng (Rainmaker-give us, give us)
- Authors: About 40 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Ramoutsa f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Lete
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165489 , vital:41249 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-10
- Description: "Rainmaker, give us, give us. We come from the river of water." This rain song is sung from October to December and in times of drought, but also sung on festive or ceremonial occassions. Sung by both men and women. This song has a particularly long melolic line. Rain song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Basaula likenja
- Authors: Saidi Kikongo and Wagenya fishermen , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Genya (African people) , Nande (Congolese (Democratic Republic) and Ugandan people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Stanleyville f-cg
- Language: Nande
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168570 , vital:41626 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0127-02
- Description: When this item was recorded it was within sound of the noise of the rapids at Stanley falls. The singers sing in parallel or organum, not unlike the songs of the Bemba people of Northern Rhodesia. Paddling song with large slit drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Basibira malaika
- Authors: Madinda ga Kababa, xylophone players of the Lubili palace , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170687 , vital:41950 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-11
- Description: Tune based upon a traditional song. "Moslems are fasting - Moslems fast." The fast of Ramadan was just over when this item was recorded. Both this instrument and the other xylophone at the Lubili (palace) had been brought in from different parts of the country. They were both slightly out of the tune, it was said. The shape of the individual notes was interesting having two lugs protruding from the lower side to prevent the note from jumping out of place over the two banana stalk supports. The notes are kept in place laterally by their wands about 3 feet long which are sharpened and stuck into the soft stalks between each slat. 1248, 1120, 928, 832, 728, 624, 560, 464, 416, 364, 312, 280, 232, 208, 182, 156, 140. Instrumental tunes, with Madinda 17 note xylophone, loose notes on banana stalks, 3 players.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Batele bwankya
- Authors: Norobeti Michaili with Haya boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Bukoba f-tz
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172580 , vital:42223 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-10
- Description: A very simple song in which the chorus clap their hands turning them over, left over right, right over left, alternately. Katikomurweya Katisha dance songs for men and women, with metal cylindrical drum and clapping (-12.03).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Bateme Makonge
- Authors: Kagaruki Nkokolo with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171972 , vital:42144 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-09
- Description: "Cut down the trees at Makonge farm." This farm was originally the property of a German farmer. The singer urges his friends to co-operate in this job of cutting the trees. It was also a gesture to retrieve the land from foreign occupation as they say that 'the one who plants trees owns the land'. Topical song with laced conical drum and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Bathi abafana ndisandindazana ((Young men call me a beauty)
- Authors: Gcaleka women and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Idutywa f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150965 , vital:39023 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-06
- Description: The whole crowd of about 60 women and girls swayed from foot to foot as they sang with great enthusiasm.It is clearly a well known and much loved tune in this region. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Batwala bafe (They take our husband)
- Authors: Ssaza Chief Kago and his nephew, Danieri Seruwaniko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170858 , vital:41970 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0138-02
- Description: This tune was composed and played when the Kabaka Mwanga II was exiled. The longest note of the xylophone was 35 inches and the shortest 24 inches, the average widith of each note was 3 and a half in. A servant of the chief placed himself at one end of the instrument to put his hand in under the notes and slide back into place any note which began to slip. The scale was:- 464, 396. 360, 308, 264, 232 v.s. 464 and 232 representing the third and eighth notes on this instrument. All the others in corresponding octaves. Instrumental tune, with 1 Madinda xylophone, 12 loose notes, supported on banana stalks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Baya wa baya (Kill, stab)
- Authors: Peter Dudurai Shiri and 4 Karanga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Gutu District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154301 , vital:39645 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-06
- Description: Peter Dudurai is a boxing trainer and this old fighting song is now used as a boxing song. It was first used in the days of the Shangaan and Matebele raids towards the end of the last century and is known from one end of the country to the other, all along the southern portion of Souhthern Rhodesia. Although not frequently heard nowadays, it was often sung twenty to thirty years ago by a previous generation. Old fighting song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Bayathetha abantwana ndinendaba (Children are speaking because I have news)
- Authors: Gcaleka boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Idutywa f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151224 , vital:39041 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR063-10
- Description: The girl playing this mouth bow whistles out of the side of her mouth as well as resonating the notes in the usual manner. She used the open string and a stopped note, stopping it with her thumbnail and first finger. The use of this indigenious instrument and its style of music explains the ease with which Gcaleka people take to the small concertina. The harmonies produced in the mouth being on the true harmonic series makes the transition to the concertina a simple matter for simple tunes. Notes of the bow, 292 and 260. Mtshotsho dance for boys and girls with Ikinki mouth resonated musical bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Bayilami selimavukuvuku (I have wrapped you up in my blanket so often that it is now worn out)
- Authors: Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Northern Transvaal f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153241 , vital:39423 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-09
- Description: Party song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Bazungu banashindana Malindi
- Authors: Chad Obuyi with Giryama men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Giryama (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malindi f-ke
- Language: Giryama
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176689 , vital:42740 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR163-04
- Description: The Gonda was danced by a small group of dark skinned boys and girls who were dressed in the equivalent of the ballet dancers 'Tutu', a short multiple skirt made of banana stalk fibres which exaggerated every movement of the hips. It was one of the most pleasing and attractive dance displays by child dancers in the whole of East Africa, all of whom were expert performers. The excessive noise of the drums and the somewhat shrill voices of the singers do not do justice to the expert dancing which went with them. Gonda dance song for men and women, with 4 Mabumbumbu cylindrical drums, pegged and footed (-14.01101-), 1 Mushondo conical drum (-14.21201-). 1 Kaamuri goblet drum (-14.51101-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Be Cheketa (Cut my breast)
- Authors: Madura Rabecu and G. Coffee , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota District, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153873 , vital:39533 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-10
- Description: There was a man who had no children who frequently went on a journey and when he came back home he used to beat his wife every time with a stick until she sang this song when he stopped beating her, as she was so sincere and honest with him as it was not her fault that she had no child. (Story song)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Belebe la yee-lo! (He is far, far away)
- Authors: Cushane Dlamini (woman of about 24 years) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152823 , vital:39346 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-10
- Description: The fingering was done by stopping the lower segment (the higher fundamental) with the back of the first and second fingers together. The song is a lament for the man who has abondoned her. Lament with Makweyana musical bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Belebe la yee-lo! (He is far, far away)
- Authors: Cushane Dlamini (woman of about 24 years) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152818 , vital:39345 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-10
- Description: The fingering was done by stopping the lower segment (the higher fundamental) with the back of the first and second fingers together. The song is a lament for the man who has abondoned her. Lament with Makweyana musical bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Bengeria
- Authors: Feituk Arap Sumeiyot , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Sotik f-ke
- Language: Kipsigis
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177390 , vital:42817 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR165-02
- Description: A particulary charming little song. The girl was with her lover when they saw her father coming to look for her. She begged people to help her by distracting her father's attention while she escaped. They did so and afterwards she sang this song to thank the men who helped her escape. Love song with Kipungandet 5 string lyre.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Bengeria
- Authors: Feituk Arap Sumeiyot , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Sotik f-ke
- Language: Kipsigis
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177395 , vital:42818 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR165-02
- Description: A particulary charming little song. The girl was with her lover when they saw her father coming to look for her. She begged people to help her by distracting her father's attention while she escaped. They did so and afterwards she sang this song to thank the men who helped her escape. Love song with Kipungandet 5 string lyre.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950