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Imilishyo y'ingoma - Akanimba (Rhythms of drums)

  • Authors: 8 Hutu men and Bijyiobenda Simeon , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: World music , Anthropology , Performing arts , Cultural anthropology , Drum--Performance , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136847 , vital:37433 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR034-06
  • Description: This group of Hutu drummers who call themselves the "Ingeruzabahizi", "The Terrifiers", were recorded by us in 1952 and their tattoos were published in the Music of Africa Series on LP records No. 1120 "Drums of Africa." The present recording shows an improvement in technique since that day, under the same leader Bijiyobyenda Simeon. Eleven drum rhythms with 2 conical drums, 5 cylindrical drums, laced, closed, with wooden beaters , 1 treble drum, cylindrical, laced, wooden beaters.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Imilishyo y'ingoma - Agasiga k'i gaseke (Rhythms of drums)

  • Authors: 8 Hutu men and Bijyiobenda Simeon , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: World music , Anthropology , Performing arts , Cultural anthropology , Drum--Performance , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136834 , vital:37432 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR034-05
  • Description: This group of Hutu drummers who call themselves the "Ingeruzabahizi", "The Terrifiers", were recorded by us in 1952 and their tattoos were published in the Music of Africa Series on LP records No. 1120 "Drums of Africa." The present recording shows an improvement in technique since that day, under the same leader Bijiyobyenda Simeon. Eleven drum rhythms with 2 conical drums, 5 cylindrical drums, laced, closed, with wooden beaters , 1 treble drum, cylindrical, laced, wooden beaters.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Imilishyo y'ingoma - Umosuko (Rhythms of drums)

  • Authors: 8 Hutu men and Bijyiobenda Simeon , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: World music , Anthropology , Performing arts , Cultural anthropology , Drum--Performance , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136811 , vital:37429 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR034-02
  • Description: This group of Hutu drummers who call themselves the "Ingeruzabahizi", "The Terrifiers", were recorded by us in 1952 and their tattoos were published in the Music of Africa Series on LP records No. 1120 "Drums of Africa." The present recording shows an improvement in technique since that day, under the same leader Bijiyobyenda Simeon. The 11 tattos are;- 1. Ibiteyo, 2. Umosuko, 3. Zigezikaragwe, 4. Agasiga, 5. Agasiga k'i gaseke, 6. Akanimba, 7. Urukina, 8. Urukantege, 9. Umuganura, 10. Umusambi, 11. Imilindi. Ekeven drum rhythms with 2 conical drums, 5 cylindrical drums, laced, closed, with wooden beaters , 1 treble drum, cylindrical, laced, wooden beaters.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kantende maninga

Muleka mwene ngoie

  • Authors: A. Kaseba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
  • Language: Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137904 , vital:37572 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-07
  • Description: The singer goes on to enumerate all the various districts where the rumor of the fame of this legendary beauty has arrived. "Muleka is a girl so beautiful that her fame has spread far and wide throughout the Kasai." This is a good example of a new accompaniment to an indifenous form of song. Topical song with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Watasala warila nanzifile

Ilanga langishiya

Bantamba fituka (The magician)

  • Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134666 , vital:37188 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-05
  • Description: A certain wizard, so the story goes, once caught a secretary bird and brought it into his house alive in order to use it for magical purposes and for killing other people. Now, this man soon died and left this secretary birf behind. So he sings this song to mock who use magic because they will surely die, just the same. :There are foolish men who leave their families unprovided for while they go off with prostitutes." "There is sadness which envelopes a child when its parents die, and a sadness also which envelopes a parent when its child dies." Self-delectative song with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira, mbira with external resonator.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ba Mari' tukasambe (Mary let us go to wash ourselves)

  • Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134675 , vital:37190 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-06
  • Description: "Mary let us go to wash ourselves at the river. On earth we live but to die. Mary join in the singing because we both know we live but to die. There are some beautiful peple on earth; so Mary sing with me this song." Self-delectative song with Kankowele mbira, fan-shaped, with external resonator.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ukutema nakubalile kubwaice (I began felling trees in my youth)

  • Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134700 , vital:37192 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-07
  • Description: The Lala often take the work of tree-felling for others, as they are specially good at it. "I began felling trees in my youth, and did not have a son-in-law to help me (i.e. he had no daughter to be married). So I took my axe and did the work alone. People belonging to the "Sand" clan (totem) are clever, because they choose a specially large tree and worship there, considering it to be a great work of God." "There are women who despise those men who stay at home in the country, so let me go to the town to marry a wiser man." The tribe being matrilineal inherits through the female side. A son-in-law has to assist his wife's family-hence the reference to "no son-in-law to help him." Self-delectative song with Kankowele mbira, fan-shaped, with external resonator
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ba Serenje balokulila bawishibo (Serenje is weeping over his father)

  • Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134640 , vital:37186 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-04
  • Description: "When Serenje's father died, he mourned for a long time. "Toranchi" has taught me how to shoot on the rifle range, so, now I have learnt to shoot, I may be going to the war, and do not know if I will ever come back." This is a piece of fantasy, for in fact, Mr. Torrence has not taught him to shoot, but it is an oblique form of flattery and praise. He is fond of Mr. Torrence who is assistant African personnel manager, and that is why he sings about him in this way. The fact that Mr. Torrence was an officer in the King's African Rifles during the war may have contributed to the singer's hero worship of him. Self-delectative song with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira with external resonator.
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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

Shendamundale banana (I am a very worried man)

Kwaile Muhiana ni yema (I will go where Muhiana has gone)

Mbainaka (Farewell-I am going)

Chikulamayembe Gondwe

Tubuke ku kaya (Let's go home, I do not want to spend all my money on the Kasai ladies)

  • Authors: America Kanada , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Arts, Malawi , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Safwa (African people)--Music , Africa Malawi Tukuyu f-mw
  • Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde , Safwa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151857 , vital:39180 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-05
  • Description: The singer was a strange shy little man who did not even stay to hear his own songs played to the end. His second song gained rounds of applause. The burden of it was;- "I want to to go home, I am wasting my time here, I do not want to stay, I would rather desert. Please, boss, give me my money. I want to go home. Self-delectative song with Pango board zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nisiri pa Wankie (I have come to Wankie, I have cone to find money to pay my lobola)

  • Authors: America Kanada , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Arts, Malawi , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Safwa (African people)--Music , Africa Malawi Tukuyu f-mw
  • Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde , Safwa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151848 , vital:39179 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-04
  • Description: The singer was a strange shy little man who did not even stay to hear his own songs played to the end. His second song gained rounds of applause. The burden of it was;- "I want to to go home, I am wasting my time here, I do not want to stay, I would rather desert. Please, boss, give me my money. I want to go home. Self-delectative song with Pango board zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Lulua mukwabumba

Samanyenga Kupembera (A feather dances around)

  • Authors: Andirea Sitole and Petros Simango , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Africa Mozambique Nova Luzitania f-mz
  • Language: Ndau
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136279 , vital:37357 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR029-11
  • Description: 'Samandenga' or 'Samanyemba' frequently occurs in S.Rhodesian songs. In this case Samandenga is a fine dancer, but in many other songs, his name indicates that there has been some deceit or falsehood spread abroad and may be associated with a lament. Who the original Samandenga may have been is not known. The singer relates his experiences, not necessarily related to each other. He mentions the women pounding grain accompanied by his Mbira. "Petros Mukumba has gone because he was despised. They agreed with me, but I did not reply." And so on. Self-delectative song with Mbira dza waNdau with 3 manuals and bell.
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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