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Sanctus

Ntsikana's Great Hymn

Kuenda Huwerura

Wona, mai wa boy

  • Authors: Shumba, January Munenga , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-08-08
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Kariba f-rh
  • Language: Ndau
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/246409 , vital:51473 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT541-L162 , Research no. L3L10
  • Description: A topical song accompanied by guitar.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-08-08

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Ihlomulo walekaya mangawa yanima

Tieou magni

Ihlomulo walekaya mangawa yanima (The pleasure of the people is my distress)

  • Authors: Saisi Shishonke , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Africa Mozambique Mabote f-mz
  • Language: Tswa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136215 , vital:37350 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR029-04
  • Description: The player stopped the lower segment of the string with the backs of both his first and 2nd fingers. Self-delectative song with CHITENDE musical bow, braced and resonated.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Mama wanyi bwala wanyi

  • Authors: S. Kaseya and A. Kabamba and group of Kanyoka men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Instrumental music , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kandakanda f-cg
  • Language: Kanyoka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134472 , vital:37163 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-04
  • Description: According to Father de Nolf, quoted by le Pere van Bulck, S. J., the BaLuba Lubilashi used to pay a tax to these Kanyoka chiefs who were themselves the envoys of the Luba emperors from Kasongo Nyembo. In return for their submission they recieved the chieftainship and its external signs: a vase to contain kaolin, a hat, a sceptre, a tortoise and a lion's skin. The Kanyoka have adopted many elements of the underlying culture of the Kasai and its Luba people Kamwendende dance with 2 guitars, 2 basket rattles, 3 goblet drums, and piece of struck metal
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Kyabula wa in kande Mpuya (You paddler of the canoe, save me)

  • Authors: R. Chimengwa and 5 Kaonde men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Kaonde (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Solwezi f-za
  • Language: Kaonde
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139241 , vital:37718 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-05
  • Description: The gist of the song is about a man who was drowning in the river, and he called on all his friends to come and save him. His canoe was drifiting away and he could not swim. This song, they said, was used when going to raid the Lozi tribe manay years ago, before Europeans came to the country in the nineteenth century. Fighting song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Igazi Lemvana

Mongu

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Let's All Repent

Nimeyasadiki Mahaba Kubao

Nyon Anyona

Ra tsamaya Kwa Kanamo

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