Godo (Bones)
- Authors: Esteri Shumba and 4 Karanga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Takawarasha, Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154649 , vital:39758 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-18
- Description: The singer is married to a chief. She goes around asking her fellow wives what part of the animal they received the last time a beast was killed. One says "We're all in the same bag, whats the good of being married to a chief? When he gives all the best meat to his favourite wife and only gives us bone?"
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
E. Gukuku (Pack up)
- Authors: M. Runesu Gumbo , 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/10962/154179 , vital:39619 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR080-07
- Description: This singer makes up all his accompaniments for his humorous songs and sketches which are in the true line of rombe minstrel material. This wife had nothing to do, so she packed up her clothes and left. The people there did not like her. (Wife) "Pack up quickly, pack up quick. Is this the reason why you took me from my homw? Why do you give me this sorrow? This tray of my mother's, I will never leave it here. This that I brought with me from my home." (Man) "Take it away! Do you think I cannot get another wife?" (Wife) "Your mother gave you a dog's heart to eat! Your mother! Had I known all this I would never have come." (Mother-in-law) "Leave her, let her go! Do you think all women are as bad as her?" (Man) "You, mother, you gave me bad advice." Humorous song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Chisisi zano rine godo
- Authors: M. Runesu Gumbo , 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/10962/154159 , vital:39615 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR080-06
- Description: This singer makes up all his accompaniments for his humorous songs and sketches which are in the true line of rombe minstrel material. "Little sister, your idea is a jealous one. I go fetch firewood, you brought back ants. I go to the stream, you brought back dirty water, I go pound, you grind very coarsely, I go to cook, you cook undercooked food, I go to cut, you cut off to much, I go to take relish, you make it all dirty, I go to work in the fields, you go for young men, I go to wash clothes, you remain dirty, Little sister, your idea is a jealous one. Chisisi is taken from the English word 'sister' with the Karanga dimunitive 'chi'. Story song with Mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Chipindura (To turn over)
- Authors: Tawagaza Sibanda , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154513 , vital:39741 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-03
- Description: The player was playing with the thumb of the left hand, the thumb and first finger of the right hand. The Njari is the traditional instrument of the district having originated from the Buhera district further north over two centuries ago, when it began to displace an older variety called the Mbira-dza-Midgimu. Self delecatative song with Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Chamutengure
- Authors: Tapera, Jege , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1961
- Subjects: Zezuru (African people) -- Music , Karimba music -- Zimbabwe , Folk music -- Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Shona , Vocal music -- Zimbabwe , Songs, Shona -- Zimbabwe , Mbira music -- Zimbabwe , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa Rhodesia Bulawayo f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/58166 , vital:27092 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC001b-01
- Description: Traditional Zezuru song accompanied by karimba.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1961
Biza rashe
- Authors: Simon Mashoko , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Shona , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195207 , vital:45540 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR211-06
- Description: Humorous song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
Baya wa baya (Kill, stab)
- Authors: Peter Dudurai Shiri and 4 Karanga men , 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, Gutu District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154301 , vital:39645 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-06
- Description: Peter Dudurai is a boxing trainer and this old fighting song is now used as a boxing song. It was first used in the days of the Shangaan and Matebele raids towards the end of the last century and is known from one end of the country to the other, all along the southern portion of Souhthern Rhodesia. Although not frequently heard nowadays, it was often sung twenty to thirty years ago by a previous generation. Old fighting song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Amasewe mukadzi wakanaka (The beauty)
- 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/10962/154314 , vital:39646 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-07
- Description: The player is an accomplished performer, he works for the Fort Victoria Municipality on the local roads with the grader. This song is the best known and popular in the Sipangabera district of Portuguese East Africa. It is, they say the first of all songs in the region. The word 'Amasewe' means 'mother-in-law' and the gist of the song is that a certain young man went to a nearby village where he got himself a wife and his mother-in-law kept on remarking how handsome he was. Self delectative song with mbira dzawaNdau.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Amasewe mukadzi wakanaka (The beauty)
- 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/10962/154309 , vital:39647 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-07
- Description: The player is an accomplished performer, he works for the Fort Victoria Municipality on the local roads with the grader. This song is the best known and popular in the Sipangabera district of Portuguese East Africa. It is, they say the first of all songs in the region. The word 'Amasewe' means 'mother-in-law' and the gist of the song is that a certain young man went to a nearby village where he got himself a wife and his mother-in-law kept on remarking how handsome he was. Self delectative song with mbira dzawaNdau.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Amai vachauya
- Authors: Tapera, Jege , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1961
- Subjects: Zezuru (African people) -- Music , Folk music -- Zimbabwe , Karimba music -- Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Shona , Vocal music -- Zimbabwe , Songs, Shona -- Zimbabwe , Mbira music -- Zimbabwe , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa Rhodesia Bulawayo f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/58174 , vital:27093 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC001b-02
- Description: Traditional Zezuru song accompanied by karimba.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1961
Aleluya mambo wakamuka muvafi
- Authors: Gwenzi Gwasera and friend , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Shona , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195191 , vital:45538 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR211-04
- Description: Mbira duet for midzimu ritual.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965