Tshilembi
- Authors: Njiba Helene et le Sana-Club , Composer not Specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965-00-00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo City not specified f-sa
- Language: Tshiluba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/210975 , vital:47563 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR0963 , Research no. P85111H
- Description: Chant folklore song by women
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965-00-00
Zore II
- Authors: Five GiTonga men and 13 women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Tonga language (Inhambane) , Folk dance music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Regulo Nhabanda f-mz
- Language: Gitonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189568 , vital:44859 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR196-02
- Description: 2 Chohodwani drums, hanging on poles (beaters) pegged, closed. 1 Shikulu drum. Big drum on ground, hand beaten, wine barrel. 2 Kirisu drums on ground (beaters) pegged open. 1 Tsakara corrugated iron strip on supports, 6 ft. long. 1 Punzu sable antelope horn. The 2 Kisusu drums were played by one man who beat an irregular rhythm against the three other drum's regular rhythm. The clappers were carefully made of sawn planks, blacked along the edges. The main dance of the GiTonga appears to be a kind of violent dance du ventre in which the hips and belly are rolled and shaken. The women and men coming out in pairs to dance in the centre of the ring. In both Zore II and III the order of appearance of the instrument is:- First Kirisu drums, then the 2 Chohodwani drums, then the Shikulu and then the corrugated iron Tsakara. The GiTonga dances are among the most deafening in Africa. The volume of sound within the circle of spectators, drummers and dancers must approach. If not exceed, the threshold of pain in the ears. Dance with 5 drums (1 struck by hand, 4 with beaters), rattles, wooden clappers, and corrugated iron strip.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Zawela Mantaba
- Authors: Mameyigudi , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960-01-01
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa City not specified f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/201647 , vital:46396 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR0587 , Research no.JP30
- Description: Ndlamu dance song about a young child, accompanied by concertina
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960-01-01
Dzoli
- Authors: Ebogoma, Gabriel , not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960-00-00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Medje f-cg
- Language: Medje
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/233524 , vital:50099 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2689 , XYZ7517b
- Description: Topical song accompanied by neikembe mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960-00-00
Meria
- Authors: Ebogoma, Gabriel , not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1960-00-00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Medje f-cg
- Language: Medje
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/233511 , vital:50098 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2689 , XYZ7517a
- Description: Topical song accompanied by neikembe mbira
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960-00-00
Ishetlhana e Tswerwe ke seokamo
- Authors: Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Folk songs, Tswana , Sotho-Tswana languages , Tswana (African people) , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Tshidilamolomo f-lo
- Language: Tswana/Rolong
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162367 , vital:40924 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-01
- Description: The singers had just come back from initiation school. Here they use floor polish instead of the traditional red ochre with which to stain themselves. Several of them looked like Nilo Hamite men from Kenya and some of their songs also suggested the modality of those Northern tribes coincidence perhaps, but noticable. "The brown cow is held, caught and held prisoner and stands there all day. The other cows are also held fast in the same way. The brown yearling, our father's cow, ruled over nations while held flat." The words are allusive and symbolic. Male initiation song performed while in the veld.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Nyamutosa chimbo cha Gotosa
- Authors: Madzikaminga, Chigaipa , Muzengedza, Zhogi , Madero , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-05-21
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko f-rh
- Language: Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/251694 , vital:52157 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT587-M59 , Research no. M3E18
- Description: A party song accompanied by matebe dza mondoro mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-05-21
Kulira kwa ng'omba (The song of the Ground Hornbill)
- Authors: Lonesi Chewame and Toni Hetara , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Katinga f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158081 , vital:40146 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-08
- Description: This instrument had ten notes set on two banana stalks with sticks pierced into the stalks to divide the notes. The deep trumpeting of the ground hornbills in the early morning and evening is a well known feature of the low lying regions of the country. The reiterated low note represents the hornbill's call, "Ri-riti, ri-riti." Tune without words. Loose note xylophone.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kwimba Kalimba (To play the Kalimba)
- Authors: E. A. Nkuzana , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tumbuka (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Mzimba District f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156273 , vital:39970 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-08
- Description: "To play the 'Kalimba' is to be happy. I remember long ago when I was a small child when I thought a breast was made of bone. But my mother told me that the breast was not bone, but flesh only. I was fooled long ago, I thought the breast was bone but it is flesh only. Listen my friends, the breast is flesh only." It seems that the obvious meaning of the words is intended to serve a secondary one. Perhaps the revelation of the begining of his natural sex life. Self delectative song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Mwadzi itira (He has done it himself)
- Authors: Joseph Ngonyama Shumba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154322 , vital:39648 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-08
- Description: The player is an accomplished performer, he works for the Fort Victoria Municipality on the local roads with the grader. This song is in effect a complaint against those who do things without first asking permission, particularly a wife who does not first ask her husband's permission regarding family matters. Self delectative song with mbira dzawaNdau.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ihlomulo walekaya mangawa yanima
- Authors: Shishonke, Saisi , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-16
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Messina f-sa
- Language: Tswa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/246672 , vital:51501 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT544-L165 , Research no. L3M11
- Description: Self delectative song with Chitende musical bow, braced and resonated accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-16
Wona, mai wa boy
- Authors: Shumba, January Munenga , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Kariba f-rh
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/246409 , vital:51473 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT541-L162 , Research no. L3L10
- Description: A topical song accompanied by guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-08
Kyabula wa mikanda Mpuya
- Authors: Chimengwa, R , Five Kaonde men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-19
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia City not specified f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/196359 , vital:45756 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-505 , Research no. L2Y6
- Description: A song asking the paddler of a canoe to save the singer whose canoe was drifiting away.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-19
Visekese wawoli wanyani lero wadinginika
- Authors: Group of 4 Tonga men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-17
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/241929 , vital:50984 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT501-L122 , Research no. L2W5
- Description: A folk dance song played on a raft rattle, about a man having 2 wives whom he could not support so he gave everything to one and left the other weeping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-17
Puo ea Morena George T. Moshoeshoe
- Authors: Moshoeshoe, Sam , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-05-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228786 , vital:49601 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT432-L53 , Research no. L1X6d
- Description: A speech by Chief George T. Moshoeshoe.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-05-28
Ihlomulo walekaya mangawa yanima (The pleasure of the people is my distress)
- Authors: Saisi Shishonke , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Africa Mozambique Mabote f-mz
- Language: Tswa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136215 , vital:37350 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR029-04
- Description: The player stopped the lower segment of the string with the backs of both his first and 2nd fingers. Self-delectative song with CHITENDE musical bow, braced and resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kyabula wa in kande Mpuya (You paddler of the canoe, save me)
- Authors: R. Chimengwa and 5 Kaonde men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Kaonde (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Solwezi f-za
- Language: Kaonde
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139241 , vital:37718 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-05
- Description: The gist of the song is about a man who was drowning in the river, and he called on all his friends to come and save him. His canoe was drifiting away and he could not swim. This song, they said, was used when going to raid the Lozi tribe manay years ago, before Europeans came to the country in the nineteenth century. Fighting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mama wanyi bwala wanyi
- Authors: S. Kaseya and A. Kabamba and group of Kanyoka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Instrumental music , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kandakanda f-cg
- Language: Kanyoka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134472 , vital:37163 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-04
- Description: According to Father de Nolf, quoted by le Pere van Bulck, S. J., the BaLuba Lubilashi used to pay a tax to these Kanyoka chiefs who were themselves the envoys of the Luba emperors from Kasongo Nyembo. In return for their submission they recieved the chieftainship and its external signs: a vase to contain kaolin, a hat, a sceptre, a tortoise and a lion's skin. The Kanyoka have adopted many elements of the underlying culture of the Kasai and its Luba people Kamwendende dance with 2 guitars, 2 basket rattles, 3 goblet drums, and piece of struck metal
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Myeyezelo
- Authors: Group of Xhosa men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149166 , vital:38811 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-03
- Description: Sung by initiates before circumcision.Circumcision song,with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nokala (The crab)
- Authors: Khotso and Mpondo men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136515 , vital:37386 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR031-09
- Description: The women in this group all wore green cotton dresses and green head cloths. They had strands of beads round their necks worked in stripes of green, yellow, white and blue. Khotso said he had taken this colour scheme from the Vierkleur. The men, in addition to this, wore a lavish number of strings of "lucky beans" or seeds, of a pearl-grey colour. These are exclusively worn by the Izangoma. Divination song with clapping and 5 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957