Urwintwari
- Authors: Mirimba Francois , Niyondorera Joseph , Gakombe Alexandre , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Nyanza f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183596 , vital:44012 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-04
- Description: This was originally meant to be sung to the harp, but the present words are a football song. The melody is an old folk one, they say, but in its present form suggest institutional adaptation, but no one could confirm this one way or the other. Topical song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Urunahi
- Authors: Ntamakiriro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Rundi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Africa Rwanda Kibimba f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148971 , vital:38791 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR058-08
- Description: The singer addresses himself to the chiefs of the country asking for alms. Player holds a small rattle in his right hand, the stick of which strikes the gourd in order to create additional percussion. This same type of bow is called UKUBU by the HA and UGUBU by the Zulu. Fundamental notes of bow:- 288 and 720 vs. Medicant's song with musical bow, vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
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/10962/183625 , vital:44016 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-07
- 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. 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
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
Uro-uro-ee
- Authors: Chelitet A. Maina , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapkatet f-ke
- Language: Kipsigis
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177580 , vital:42835 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR165-05
- Description: Note that the old man sings 'udo-udo-ee' while the nephew sings 'uro-uro-ee'. Version of a milking song, as played to the lyre. Goat milking song, with Kipugandet 5 string lyre.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Upendeka kukama (Nicely combed hair)
- Authors: Ruth, Jane Muchindu and group of Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138544 , vital:37648 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-06
- Description: Pairs of dancers, girl and boy, came out and danced a rather stiff little dance together and then returned to the crowd, as another pair took their place. "When you go to town, do not tell my lover I am nearly a full grown girl, so that he will continue working and come back and find me quite grown up. Mankuntu dance song for boys and girls with 3 drums (Gogogo, Musunta, Mpati). Open and pegged, and played by hands.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ungungunyana
- Authors: Son of Chief Mhlolutini, Nganzakwenye Shandu (Performer) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Music--South Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Mahlabatini f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133089 , vital:36934 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-10
- Description: Two self-delectative songs with Makhweyana bow
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Ungewu
- Authors: Group of Baca Men (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Kingwilliamstown f-za
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133475 , vital:36981 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR012-10
- Description: Party song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Unganzibeli akuxonga
- Authors: M. Makhuvela (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Music--Mozambique , Folk music , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Africa Mozambique Gaza f-mz
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133260 , vital:36956 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR011-02
- Description: Topical songs with 2 guitars
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
Ungaha wakavire wambunga waka yorerwa
- Authors: Anton Giyama and four Herero women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ovambo (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Otjimbingwe f-sx
- Language: Kwambi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195785 , vital:45604 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR217-13
- Description: Historical song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
Ungabo phinduzibize Ngami
- Authors: Losina Dlamini , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern Distict f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152908 , vital:39355 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-18
- Description: Two finger technique only. This flute was made on the spot froma pawpaw stalk. 13" flute, end blown out of the side of the mouth, two finger holes and stopped at the end. Second tune was overblown to get an octave higher. The flute was cut to shape with a pocket knife, the two holes being cut and then shapped with a piece of stick. The other (mouth) end was reduced to lenght until the finger hole notes sounded correct. Flute tunes with Umstshingozi end blown transverse flute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Unesikhwele
- Authors: Cwaizile Shandu and Nomatheku Zungu (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Music--South Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Zulu , Africa South Africa Mahlabatini f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133084 , vital:36933 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR010-09
- Description: Four love songs with Makhweyana musical bow
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Undendezana
- Authors: Mfihlelwa Magagula , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Zombode f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152195 , vital:39232 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-03
- Description: This song is a children's country jingle. Children's rhymes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Undebulisele ku Lungwengwe (Give my best wishes to Lungwengwe, also to your mother)
- Authors: Group of young Mpondo married women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136697 , vital:37406 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR033-05
- Description: Towards the end another woman took over the lead and then all the singers broke down laughing. Party song for women.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Unali mpepara kale wadodoma ndi mfuti
- Authors: Tweleve elderly women and two drummers , 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/10962/155775 , vital:39915 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-11
- Description: "A long time ago there was a man with a gunwho could not shoot and always missed." The failure of this hunter to bring home the meat by continually missing his quarry has been perpetuated in this song although the name of the hunter concerned has long since been forgotten. The two drums were barrel shaped, weighted, and with mirlitons (locallly called Mvema). Chitsukulumwe dance with 2 horizontal double ended barrel drums, rattles and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Umushuma
- Authors: Eliasi Karuandila 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 Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172069 , vital:42155 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-15
- Description: The story of a man who wanted to stop thieves from coming to his house and taking all his belongings, He bargained with a snake to come to his house and bite the thieves. The snake, however, only managed to destroy all twenty of his children and relations and killed the man himself in the end. The moral was plain. Story with song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Umulugu wa Yakobo
- Authors: Wonkhama Sekenge with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173477 , vital:42375 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-06
- Description: "This year we expect to have a lot of sisal and therefore a lot of money. But some of our friends will lose because the grasshoppers have eaten their grain crops." The high price of sisal this year (1950) has created a demand and the local Sukuma have been cutting their sisal hedges and getting the fibre for sale to Indian buyers. A few days after this song was sung an order had to be issued by the authorities forbidding, temporarily, the buying of sisal as the Sukuma were neglecting to harvest both their grain and cotton crops which were being left to spoil in the fields. There is a sound fo drums in the distance at the beginning of the song. Busatsi dance song form men and women.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Umuhororo
- Authors: Tutsi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Nyanza f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183606 , vital:44013 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-05
- Description: Composed for the opening of a new mission. Sung in praise of a hill on which a new church was built. The Tutsi singers are all members of a local club for evolues (clerks) etc. called 'La Jeuness du Ruanda'-the youth of Ruanda (Rwanda). The melody is clearly of foreign origin yet a certain indigenous quality remains. Praise song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Umtsha wam' uyayizulisa ingqondoyam (My lover sends me out of my mind)
- Authors: Group of young Mpondo married woman , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150817 , vital:39009 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-08
- Description: This group of young women wore pale blue and white blankets. There was only one married woman's bead heading but the rest wore either black cloths or pale blue towels, swathed or placed on the head like crowns, in place of the headring. Many had beautiful and diginified faces. One wore her snuff spoon in her crown. Love song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Umtagato-we! (I am held)
- Authors: The Coal Brothers (Four young Swazi youth) , 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/10962/152742 , vital:39337 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-02
- Description: One flute played the melody and the other two played an accompaniment at different pitches while the guitarist stummed out a couple of chords. Town dance with 3 penny whistles (whistle flutes) and a guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958