Gombahari murume (Gombahari, the jealous husband)
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180250 , vital:43344 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-14
- Description: The song is typical of those which are in great demand at any party. In the old days Njari players would tour the country singing at parties as wandering minstrels, receiving gifts in food and kind and then going on to the next village. Humorous song with Njari (Mbira).
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- Date Issued: 1949
Dududu, ndakaringo
- Authors: Duma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180511 , vital:43396 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-09
- Description: This song, taken from part of a story, is typical of the style among the Karanga. The story contains many references to animals and birds, but the full story is not known. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Chomusikana Mandega I (The Girl, Mandega)
- Authors: Boys of Domboshawa Government School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180275 , vital:43348 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-01
- Description: Physical training at this school was done to the accompaniment of several well known folk songs. The team of boys was supplied with dumbells made of blue gum wood which they clap together. The drummer and song leader stand in front of the clas setting the pace. The whole is converted into a kind of dance routine. Physical training song, with Mutumba drums and dumbbells.
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- Date Issued: 1949
Chitima
- Authors: Muchabaiwa and two others , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Marandellas f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180646 , vital:43596 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-07
- Description: Onomatopoeic words or phrases describing the sounds of a train. "Chuma changu chakapera nemahuri." All my possessions (literally my beads) have been wasted on girls. The performer of the mouth bow sometimes resonates the harmonics out of the side of the mouth and sometimes whistles without taking the bow from his mouth. Self delectative song, with Chipendani musical bow, mouth resonated
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- Date Issued: 1951
Chimwanikoda
- Authors: Munthuanengwi Muhlanga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Gwelo f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180348 , vital:43355 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-04
- Description: An unusual musical bow on account of the use of a bridge ith which to divide the string into two segements and convey the sound direct to a small drum like resonator attached to the bow near its center. This simple little bow is played with an ox-tail bow near the point of stress. A thin stick is inserted between the gourd's membrane and the wire, conveying the sound down to the resonator and also dividing the single string into two unequal segments. The player stops the shorter of the two, thus producing the fundamental note on the longer segment and two or three notes on the shorter. It is perhaps strange to think that this product could prove entertaining and satisfactory to the performer. Self delectative song, with Chimwanikoda bowed musical bow, braced.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Chaminuka teera wamwe (Chaminuka follows others)
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180241 , vital:43341 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-13
- Description: Chaminuka is the name given to a whole line of religious prophets who for many generations led the spiritual life and thoughts of the Karanga people. One of the Chaminuka prophets is said to have smitten the waters of the Zambezi so that the river parted. The Karanga people came over dry foot. His soul, they say, first flew across the river in the form of a dove. Towards the end of the song, the singer breaks into the local patois, representing a conversation between him and a 'Mujoni'. a policeman on a horse. Humorous song with Njari (Mbira).
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- Date Issued: 1949
Caminingwa
- Authors: Teachers Training College, Penhalonga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Goromonze f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180699 , vital:43603 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-12
- Description: Long ago, there was a widow with one small daughter. Every day the mother used to go out collecting wild vegetables. One day when she came back home she found that several of her corn cobs hanging up in the hut were bare of corn and she asked the child how this had happened. She said 'Mother while you were away a little animal came here, danced and sang and as it danced the mealies fell off their cob onto the ground and he ate them all up! The animal asked her where her father was. She said "My father is dead". "And where is your mother?" "She is out collecting green food." "What kind?" "Watercress and spinach". So the mother said "Tomorrow I will stay at home and see this little animal." The animal came again and did the very same thing and she was astonished at what she saw. Story song, with 2 rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
Baya, wa baya, ho-ha-ho!
- Authors: Jima Shumba with Duma men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Bikita f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180556 , vital:43402 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-14
- Description: This song is known over the whole lenght and breadth of the Karanga country. It was first sung, they say, in the 19th century as a fighting song against the Ndebele under Mzilikatsi from the west and the Shangaans under Ngungunyana from the east. These two Ngoni tribes from Zululand met on the Mtilikwe River and decided to keep to their on side of the river raiding the villages on either hand. "Kuwerure" they cry, when two sides meet in battle. Fighting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Andisaguta (I am not full)
- Authors: Zazi with Karanga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180529 , vital:43398 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-11
- Description: "I am not yet full, I have not yet had enough. But when I am full, then I will hit those women over there." A song sung in jest. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949