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Wezulu walila

Wezulu walila (The Zulu are crying)

Whistling Language

  • Authors: Didmas Murigwa and Muyapi Mutema , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1949
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Umtali f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180547 , vital:43400 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-13
  • Description: The second small boy, in the whistling item with words, sometimes forgot to whistle the full sentence as he was so carried away by his own repartee. This recording was taken eighteen months later than the previous item. There is first a whistling conversation between two small boys about ten yards apart, and then another conversation ith spoken explanations of the sentences whistled. They bandy small boy's ruderies at each other, hence the laughter from the others. The recording is somewhat marred by tape echo.
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  • Date Issued: 1949

Wi-wi-wi-wi mirongo

Wimbe ngoma wulisalise ye-ye

Wirigiringwe

  • Authors: Mihambari and Rwanda girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Gihini f-rw
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148764 , vital:38771 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-11
  • Description: "Mama, don't be afraid of a leopard you see by day, it's a kind leopard, not like the ones you see by night, and you must try to be like it, i.e. you must try to be as beautiful as the leopard, but without scratching." Wedding song with hand clapping
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Wiyo walipulapula uganga

  • Authors: Sergent Shabani Mutalise with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173237 , vital:42348 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR149-14
  • Description: "Your friends are punding charms. I left my wife at Tanga. Come and sleep with me. I love you so much. Come and sleep with me." The Manyanga dance is performed either by troupes of trained men or by both men and women together. When performed by a troupe it is an acrobatic dance and the dancers tie bells below the knee to enhance the rhythm of their steps. The tune itself is said to be a traditional melody. Manyanga dance for men and women.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Wo ye ye Ndaluwuluke (Woye - I am going forever)

Woba newali ogya nalyo

Woca mwana

Woho naizhi

Woho naizhi

  • Authors: Group of old Hlubi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Tembu (African people) , Field recordings , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139678 , vital:37767 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR050-04
  • Description: Some very spirited solo performances were put up by individuals who dashed out of a line to take up a new song, each replacing the last man. The first song indicated that the hero of the song had a case to bring. The second, that he should be caught. The third one that he should be held, and so on. Each of the many singers and dancers liked to come out into the ring, shout his individual cries and introduce his own song. The occassional interpolation of a horn was made by blowing through an pld rubber bulb type motor-cycle horn. Mgibo pre-initiation dance with sticks.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wolala (Wolala, why! Wolala, I am leaving)

  • Authors: Young Xhosa men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150770 , vital:39004 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-04
  • Description: Wolala is a man's name. There are few if any words in the lyric. This was sung by a group of young people, the girls and boys rather younger than the first group and not so gaily dressed. The girls clap their hands and stamp one foot alternately swinging rhythmically forward and backward. Mtshotsho dance for young men and women with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Wondoloza Bantu (We safeguard the Chief, "Subuza")

  • Authors: Large group of Swazi men (about 80-90) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Entonjeni, Northern District f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152519 , vital:39305 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR070-02
  • Description: The three sections of which this group was formed performed "ukopaseka" at the end of the song. This is the equivalent of the Zulu ukugiya or solo strutting dance done by individuals out in front of the groups to sounds of encouraging cries by their friends. Each young man has his own special cries shouted by his comrades for him whenever he shows off in this manner. Umgubo regimental song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wonke umhlaba nyazmmazama (The whole world is moving)

Woyahahai zhembulane

Wukati lakukawa

  • Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez , Gomez, F , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1955
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132164 , vital:36806 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR004-03 , Field card no. H1P-14
  • Description: "Now we are well off, my wife, you do not want to know my relatives any more. You want this and that, but not to meet my friends. I have a child who was ill and whom I sent to the herbalist, but although that woman took my money, she did not give my child the right medicine." The herbalist in question was his own grandmother. One of four topical songs with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1955

Wuyawuya nalila mininga

  • Authors: Likhengele Makhono with Sukuma men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwanza f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173671 , vital:42397 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR152-05
  • Description: Secret socities, charms and occult ideas are an everyday part of the lives of the Sukuma people. Charms and counter charms to a people who know no physical chain of cause and effect and only a vague one, are still considered valuable. The Wigasha dance is performed sitting down with most of the action confined to stretching up the arms and twisting the torso. The team of dancers performs routine actions in unision with arms and body. "I am Thinking abouth the death of my love who looked after me well. Wigasha dance song for men.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Xhosa I (Saturday is a lonely day)

  • Authors: Four men and group of women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165660 , vital:41268 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-04
  • Description: "Saturday is a lonely day." "If you have no one to go out with on a Saturday, you feel very lonely indeed", they explained. This version of the step dance which is performed with rubber or other padding on the ankles, is similar to the 'Isicatulo' boot dance of the Southern Zulu and Xhosa tribes. Step dance with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Xhosa II (Xhosa)

  • Authors: Four men and group of women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165665 , vital:41269 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-05
  • Description: "Saturday is a lonely day." "If you have no one to go out with on a Saturday, you feel very lonely indeed", they explained. This version of the step dance which is performed with rubber or other padding on the ankles, is similar to the 'Isicatulo' boot dance of the Southern Zulu and Xhosa tribes. Step dance with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1959
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