Jew's Harp Solo
- Authors: Katewa, Sylvestor , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Sambiu f-sx
- Language: Mbukushu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/307900 , vital:58856 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD116-23
- Description: Jew's Harp Solo.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1988
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
A Luwe
- Authors: Taines Chirwa , Nancy Luhana , Tumbuka girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185168 , vital:44335 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-14
- Description: Luwe was the name of a certain man who had no children. He had married a woman who bore him no babes. The pre-occupation in the African mind with the question of offspring is frequently the subject of songs. The 'A' before the proper name is the equivalent of the English 'Mr.' (Mister). Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Title not specified
- Authors: Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 0000
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Country not specified City not specified f-
- Language: Language not specified
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/285954 , vital:56224 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP1578-XYZ4978b
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 0000
Nomayaya
- Authors: Serena Mako , Hangaza women , Folk , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania City not specified f-tz
- Language: Rundi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/297173 , vital:57550 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP1798-XYZ5205a
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ngoneni ngoneni bakithi?
- Authors: Rosalina Ndhlole and Juana Nkosi (Performer) , Composer not specified
- Subjects: Self delectative , Indigenous folk music , Makweyana one string stressed bow gourd resonated , Mataffin , Nelpsruit , Transvaal (Mpumalanga) , South Africa
- Type: Sound , Music
- Identifier: vital:15376 , MOA27-22 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017681 , MOA27
- Description: English translation of title: 'What have I done, what have I done my people?' , Self delectative song by Rosalina Ndhlole and Juana Nkosi, accompanied by makweyana gourd resonated one string stressed bow , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
- Full Text: false
Ca a nelwe kolobe (Give the pig to no one)
- Authors: Young school girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162612 , vital:40955 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-13
- Description: This is a very well-known old Tswana song and can be heard in most districts and as far east as Saulspoort amongst the Kgatla. There is a little game left in the countryside and so the song must have been current in past generations when wild pig were plentiful. Song on returning from hunting.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Entrance song from the Missa Zimbabwe
- Authors: Louis Trichardt church music workshop participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Ngovhela sa
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/381764 , vital:67598 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC080b-07
- Description: Missa Zimbabwe entrance song arranged from Ndebele into Tsonga sung with clapping accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980
Ku Mchisi kuli mtengo (At Mchisi there is a tree)
- Authors: Visanza girl's school choir , 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/10962/160007 , vital:40367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-04
- Description: The Nkaodi tree is used as a love charm, the roots being taken soaked in water and drunk, mostly by women in the hope that their husbands will love them more. It would appear that this tune, used as a dance theme in the 1930's reflected the European influence of the period, with the stress incorrectly applied to the ultimate syllables. "At Mchisi there is a tree as a medicine. It is Nkaodi. Two Nsita dance songs for women with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Title not specified
- Authors: Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 0000
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Country not specified City not specified f-
- Language: Language not specified
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/285949 , vital:56223 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP1577-XYZ5027
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 0000
Title not specified
- Authors: Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 0000
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Country not specified City not specified f-
- Language: Language not specified
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/285944 , vital:56222 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP1576-XYZ5025
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 0000
Sizwe Woronka
- Authors: Serina Mako , Hangaza people , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania City not specified f-tz
- Language: Hangaza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/292294 , vital:56964 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP1792-XYZ5205b
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nkosi Sikelea
- Authors: Performer Not Specified , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Folk music , Church music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Lumko f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/292471 , vital:56983 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC003a-05
- Description: New African Church Hymn
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1979
Mai dale tawa tumbila (My darling went away)
- Authors: Agnes Maknwalo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Malindi, Fort Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155838 , vital:39922 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-04
- Description: This woman, Agnes Nzowa (who is a Zimba) was instructed to make contour ridges in her land so immediately her husband went off to Southern Rhodesia to avoid having to help her do the work. Likhuba dance song for young women with 2 tin rattles and clappers.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Title not specified
- Authors: Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1947
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa country not specified city not specified f-
- Language: Language not specified
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/348807 , vital:63690 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP4120-XYZTL4599c
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1947
Ogo de zili ndi myendo (She has tattoo marks)
- Authors: C. Banda and G. Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chadza village, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153652 , vital:39494 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-13
- Description: It is notable that the Chewa men of the region have the lowest opinion of their wives and vice versa, the custom which allows immediate marriage without bride price (Dibolo) or any other formality except what is locally called 'snatching' has clearly led to this state of affairs and whether recent or of long standing they could not say. Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Namayaya
- Authors: Peter Manyanga with Hangaza women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shanga f-tz
- Language: Rundi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172818 , vital:42286 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-15
- Description: It is significant that an Ndau man from the South East of Southern Rhodesian on hearing these songs claimed that the style of singing and the sound of the words were very like his own. It is believed that the five related tribes of Southern Rhodesia, now called Shona a common Hima strain from the north, and may well indicate a link with the legend of the Hima Bachwezi, who, the Rundi and Tutsi maintain, came down with them from the north but did not stay and went on south. The features of the singers showed a strong Hamite strain although clearly semi-Bantu. The fourth song has unusally clever little melody. These people come from the border of Rundi-Urundi (Rwanda) in Ngala district. Topical song, with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Haha mwelinde
- Authors: Ganda women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: 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/10962/310078 , vital:59112 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP2492-XYZ6019b
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Title not specified
- Authors: Performer not specified , Ikhethe, A. , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Oshikuku sx
- Language: Kwanyama
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/338118 , vital:62348 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC330a-15
- Description: Owambo religious song accompanied by rattle, drum and clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1979
Ekizina ky’abaishiri
- Authors: Ferezi Bazamu and Nkole girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbarara f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169965 , vital:41843 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-02
- Description: Song sung as a farewell to a bride by her girl friends when she is about to go to her new home. Wedding song with conical drum, laced, single and four raft rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950