Uhamba Kwa Mtombeni (If I leave Mtombeni, I do not say goodbye)
- Authors: Samuel Tabete , 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/10962/152677 , vital:39330 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR071-08
- Description: "We intombi yazi khetela kwa mganami kwa sho umuntu. A ibanjwa ngamandla we mganami wam' kuyazithethelwa maa. U hamba kwa mtombeni a ngi valelisi we ma." "A girl choses for herself, friend, they say. She is not to be forced. You must speak for yourself. If I leave Mtombeni's house I do not say goodbye." Topical song with concertina.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Zanse na Tengani afuna mapass (Everything at Tengani needs a pass)
- Authors: George Zongoloti and small girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:39905 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-02
- Description: The song is sung partly in Sena and partly in Mangyanja. The drummer sitting on the ground with his drum on his thighs moves the drum on and off his chest by raising and lowering the tips of his feet with heels on the ground. This has the necessary tonal effect when moving the drum half an inch or so only. The singer, George Zongoloti is singing about his troubles. If he wants to go to Southern Rhodesia he has to come Chief Tingami for a pass. If he wants to fish, another pass. Even to make a canoe, he needs a pass. Now he is going back to Portuguese territory over the border because there you can do what you like without a single pass, just what you like! Topical song with Nthikwi drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Haopala pitsi
- Authors: Group of Sotho men (Perfomers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Work songs , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134127 , vital:37076 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-01
- Description: The song compares the striped colourings of a certain caterpillar with those of a zebra.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Uruchantege
- Authors: Group of Hutu drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Kishuyi f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183644 , vital:44018 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-09
- Description: The drums are not the normal drums used in Ruanda (Rwanda) but substitutes. The timekeeper was playing on the same head as the leader which is not correct, in the villages each man having his own drum. The click of sticks can consequently be heard as they strike each other. The players were a small informal group of Hutu miners over 600 miles from home working at the Kolwezi Copper Mine. Yet home style drumming was their particular joy and constant recreation. At approximately 3 minutes, they appear to change to the Urukina tatoo. The name of this tatoo was annoinced at the beginning. During the playing the leader broke four sticks one after the other, his friends handing him substitutes. The sticks were only short pieces of wood not the correct spoon headed carved beaters used in ther own country. This tatoo underlines again the fundamental difference of apprach to drumming between the Hima and the Bantu. Although the Hutu speak a Bantu language and are originally of Bantu descent there is widespread intermarriage between them and the Hima overlords, the Tutsi, and the Hima attitude to music and drumming appears to have persisted. Three drum rhythms, three laced conical drums
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Wemuko ifwala mangapala (Father-in-law, father-in-law, do not kill me)
- Authors: Chibuye Matolopa , 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/10962/134615 , vital:37183 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-03
- Description: "Wemuko, wemuko, ifwala mangapala undipaira pamwana waangi ukufiala kulimilimo-we." "Father-in-law, father-in-law. Don't put on your rags, or kill me or my child. to create a child is work." The rags worn by diviners. Self-delectative song with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957