A Yotamu Amati Ondimange
- Authors: Nyirenda, Ganizani , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-05-22
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi City not specified f-mw
- Language: Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/282728 , vital:55867 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP1459-XYZ4905b
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-05-22
A ḽa ṋama -- a a ṱuwa
- Authors: Matthew Tshivhase , chorus of students , composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Limpopo Province f-sa
- Language: Venda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/400276 , vital:69608 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , JBFT03-JV9-JV1J17
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
A) Kazima (Wait for me) B) I-e-e Gumbwa Gumbwa (How alike things are) C) Mee Mbuzi Mee (My Shephard) D) Amanu (Temper, temper)
- Authors: Young boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Vidzumo, Kasungu, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153320 , vital:39435 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-02
- Description: Sung by boys and girls in their separate sleeping huts before falling asleep. Verses such as these are the heritage of most African tribes. a) "Kazima, wait for me, please wait for me. There is some meat on the roof. (I have something to tell you). There is something on the path. There is meat on the roof. b) "I-i-i! How alike things are!. The people here are clever. They visit secretly, so... The meat has gone away. With whom shall I walk? The story is told, so... To whom shall I walk?" c) "My shephard is dead, he striped and fell. Oh dear, oh dear. The goat cries 'me-e-e!" d) "Where has the mother gone? Where is she? She has gone to Malambo. What has she gone for? She has gone to buy millet. What will she do with it? She will make beer. (etc.) Verses are made up as they go along. 4 Children's verses.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
A) Lululu, B) Leza wa mwana
- Authors: Lusiya Nabanda (a grandmother) , 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, Liliongwe, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153329 , vital:39436 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-03
- Description: Old traditional lullabies, by Chewa women of this district. In them the continually harassed mother mentions her many and endless duties which demand her attention as well as the child which needs her constant care. b) "Luluya, sleeping child, do not cry. See your motehr is at work. See the porridge pot is boiling. Don't go on crying, go to sleep. A child's god is a scrap of food. Its mother is the stirring stick. Should I nurse a child on account of the stirring stick? Its father is its first finger. I get only a share from the kitchen spoon." Two lullabies.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
A-a-ye nanga omwale (Aaye! what about Omwale)
- Authors: Women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158936 , vital:40242 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-12
- Description: Dance tunes with the minimum of melodic inspiration to evoke the dance. The bass drum was beaten by two women, one on each side of the drum opposite each other. The song consists mostly of references to the names of local persons. Such as OMwale, Ojere, OPhiri etc., each with the tonorific prefix 'O'. The equivalent of the English "Mister". Dance tune with bass drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ab Elob /guiba !goahe re
- Authors: Group Composition , Gurirab, Asser , Damara Folk , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-10-28
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Okombahe f-sx
- Language: Khoekhoe, Nama (Namibia)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/278039 , vital:55344 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD056-11
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-10-28
Ab'omupiira bebale okusamba
- Authors: Abadongo Abaganda , Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952
- 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/10962/327583 , vital:61133 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP3115-XYZ7320
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Ab'omupiira bebale okusamba
- Authors: Abadongo Abaganda , Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952
- 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/10962/327614 , vital:61136 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP3115-XYZ7320
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Aba hlale sangweni
- Authors: Fouriesburg Zulu Choir , Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1946
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Kwa-Zulu Natal f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/346441 , vital:63391 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP3989-2928
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1946
Aba Mukama
- Authors: Ernest Kibuka with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bibanja / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172289 , vital:42184 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-08
- Description: The laced drum is called Ngoma, the general name of any drum. It only receives a special name when it is part of a set of drums such as the Enkoito set. David Rugomola is said by his men to be the best chief in the whole Bibanja area and the people like him very much. He is a tall man with finely drawn features common to many aristocratic Hima people who rule over several lesser tribes in this part of East Africa. Praise song, with conical laced drum, beaten with sticks, and clapping (-12.03-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Aba Mukama
- Authors: Ernest Kibuka , Haya men of Bukoba District , composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania city not specified f-tz
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/367858 , vital:66031 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , ACO229-D4X2
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Aba Mukama
- Authors: Ernest Kibuka , Haya people , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania City not specified f-tz
- Language: Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/292579 , vital:56995 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP1835-XYZ5262
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Aba Seveni abada
- Authors: Zakaria Kasasa and Endongo za Baganda , Kasasa, Zakaria , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950:08:30
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-sa
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/199473 , vital:46113 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR0290 , Research no.XYZ5374
- Description: Praise song accompanied by various instruments
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950:08:30
Aba Seveni abada
- Authors: Benjamin Otieno and Kisii Government School Choir , Arum, Walter , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950:09:12
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya City not specified f-sa
- Language: Dho Luo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/199486 , vital:46114 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR0300 , Research no.XYZ5493
- Description: Herioc school choir song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950:09:12
Aba Seveni abada
- Authors: Zakaria Kasasa, 'Endongo za Baganda'. , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , 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/10962/170475 , vital:41926 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-10
- Description: "The 'Aba Seveni', the soilders of the 7th King's African Rifles, are back from the war, but they have no money left. The ones who stayed are better off than the soilders." A story with a familiar aftermath theme. Topical song, with Endongo bowl lyre with 8 strings, Ndingidi one string bowed lute, and one Ntenga conical drum, laced, single.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Aba Seveni abada
- Authors: Zakaria Kasara , Endongo za Buganda , Kasara, Zakaria , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda city not specified f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/296339 , vital:57439 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP1934-XYZ5314
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Abafana
- Authors: Reitz Bantu Choir , Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Kwazulu Natal f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/344190 , vital:63100 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP3906-1618
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Abafana
- Authors: Gumede, Willie , composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 0000-00-00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa country not specified City not specified f-
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/245640 , vital:51390 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR3276 , 1771
- Description: Zulu town dance song accompanied by the concertina, a guitar and rattles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 0000-00-00
Abafana
- Authors: African Pride Singers , composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-00-00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa country not specified city not specified f-
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/245125 , vital:51334 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR3255 , 1681
- Description: For further details refer to ILAM shellac record: CR3255
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-00-00
Abafana
- Authors: Snowy Radebe and Company , Performer not specified , Snowy Radebe , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1948
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Johannesburg f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/337783 , vital:62302 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP3480-XYZ1956
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1948