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Katikalepuke, katikatobeke (About to snap, about to break)

  • Authors: Isaac Matafwana and Sunkutu , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135125 , vital:37239 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-07
  • Description: The words are mostly in Bemba with a little Swahili here and there. "About to snap, about to break. Leave me by myself, so that I can enjoy the pleasure of it. Let the others indulge in their eartly pleasures. Don't worry about them. I like my girl because she dresses well." Topical song with guitar and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mwana akula akulilo kutwa (The child grows up but to die)

  • Authors: Isaac Matafwana and Sunkutu , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135134 , vital:37240 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-08
  • Description: Here the words are in a mixture of Bemba and Lamba. "The child grows up but to die. Kazembe, the present chief, has now died; Kabumbo, the chief is also dead." Kazembe XV who recently became paramount chief of the Luunda died recently after only a short period as head of his tribe. The singer cogitates upon the responsibilities of a tribal chief which seem to drive him to a premature grave. Wistful song with guitar and Bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Banakashi tabalila (Women's tears do not mean a thing)

  • Authors: Isaac Matafwana and Sunkutu , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135152 , vital:37242 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-10
  • Description: "Women's tears do not mean a thing! Their eyes shed tears while they sing with their lips." The form of this song is typically folk in its continued refrain. The situation to which the singer appears to refer, is the funeral dance in which the women sing lustily for the dance, while artificially inducing tears to fall in respect for the dead. Topical song with guitar and bottle
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kakonko (The small rough "knot" that spoils good work)

  • Authors: Isaac Matafwana and Sunkutu , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135143 , vital:37241 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-09
  • Description: He goes on to say: "If your mother has no wisdom, how can you have wisdom?" " I married a beautiful woman, but I left her for she was diseased."If a small imperfection spoils an otherwise good work, they call the obstruction a "knot", as in a string. Topical song with guitar and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wen mama wanga (My mother)

Abayashi bonse bati bwela (Both parents say 'Come back')

  • Authors: Jackson Cabala and 3 Bemba boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:37245 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-12
  • Description: All the singers were born in the Mine Compound and were brought up here. Thier chief and almost exclusive musical inspiration therfore, comes from the cinema and African town dance records from Johannesburg
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tamulela bantu baKuno

Ndete Chakutila

Mayo (My mother)

  • Authors: Kasonde and Mubangaied , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Kasama f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135038 , vital:37229 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-02
  • Description: "My child is sick, you the doctor must look after him.-You, my wife, are a jealous woman-what are you after?" Topical song with rattle pole and bottle struck with spoon.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kasonde waritumpa, Kasonde mubanga (Kasonde is stupid)

  • Authors: Kasonde and Mubangaied , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Kasama f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:37227 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-01
  • Description: The rattle was composed of a wire hoop mounted on a pole about 6 feet high. A transverse wire had pieces of iron threaded on it, which rattled when the rattle-player struck the end of the pole on the ground and struck the side of the pole rhythmically in syncopation with the palm of his left hand. Topical song with rattle pole and bottle struck with spoon.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tata Shibwalya

Icalo bafora Chitapankure : The country given to Chitapankwa

Lyalimba isuba lyalemba = The sun is setting

Kulangula-ka

Visimu vyangu vyotola

Chilumendo chakumona ku menso chilocha (How clean can a man or woman be)

Nkunte njinga Andre Ciku (Andrew Ciku urged us to pedal fast on our bicycles)

  • Authors: M. Sashi and group of Lumbo men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Mufulira mine f-za
  • Language: Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151743 , vital:39166 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-09
  • Description: "Andrwew Ciku urged us to pedal hard. We wanted to cross the Luwongo river to get to the copperbelt, but on the way we broke down, to our regret!" This type of parallel singing is called "Kalela" and is commonly used, they say, for topical songs. These boys were actually singing in a mixture of Bemba and Aushi. Topical song
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Iteyanye (Be prepared)

  • Authors: Members of the christian Mission to Many lands , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Drinking songs , Africa Zambia Chingola f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135335 , vital:37260 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-06
  • Description: This hymn is based on Ecclesiastes, Chap. V, verse I (Hymn No. 51) This separatist African Christian Sect compose their own hymns. 2 separate Hymns.Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Mupukumo drinking song with Mumamba mbira bell.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tatwaibombe incito yafilwa masoca

Owachitawala

  • Authors: Philemon Kalela , Group of Bemba men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
  • Language: Lozi , Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183798 , vital:44070 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-16
  • Description: A song making fun of the Watchtower sect which holds its meetings every Monday and Wednesday in different private houses. The singers were alleged to be Catholics but that did not stop their singing the songs of the rival church. The word Chitawala is made up of the syllables of the English word heard by African Wachi-ta-wa-la. The local Bemba being unable to say an'R', preferring the 'L'. Topical song
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  • Date Issued: 1952
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