Fila II
- Authors: Group of Luba Men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Lubangule f-cg
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182974 , vital:43899 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-13
- Description: These funeral songs are sung to cheer themselves up, but can also be sung at any time, they said. "While we sing we think of our own village." Recorded at the Kipushi Mine, Katanga. Fila dance song with 4 goblet drums and struck bottle
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- Date Issued: 1952
Mwakadima wamibushiba
- Authors: Kayoka Ladislaus, with Kapungo Isidore and Beya Marcel (Likembe players) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kandakanda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182060 , vital:43794 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-13
- Description: "The mother of Kadima was staying in the village of Lushiba. Early one morning she was walking along the road nearby when a car came up from behind, knocked her down and killed her." The history of a true incident. Topical song, with 2 Likembe mbira and wooden clapper (-12.02-)
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- Date Issued: 1952
Atu
- Authors: Andre Boniface Wahamba and group of Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Villa Luzu f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183301 , vital:43953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-01
- Description: "So many people have been born, so many people have died. Now all my folk are finished. So who will keep me company when I die?" This song with its antiphonal call and answer is typical of the style of the majority of folk songs of the Chokwe heard on the mines. This kind of performance is most difficult to record effectively for several reasons. Chianda dance song woth Sangu rattles, leg rattles held in the hand and gourds on sticks
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- Date Issued: 1952
Abiiru Drum Rhythms
- Authors: Team of Abuiiru drummers , 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/10962/183587 , vital:44011 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-03
- Description: The whole set of drums should have been conical laced drums of the same shape but varying in pitch. At this time a number of them had been improvised from oil drums, 44 gallon and 8 gallon metal containers. The chief drummer is called-Umwiiro mukuru. The second drummer is called-Uwaura. The timekeeper drummer is called-Ishakwe. The beaters of drum sticks are called-Murisho (s), Imirisho (pl.). The names of the are from treble to bass. Lead drum-(in this case a small bucket drum)-Ishako. 1st drum-Nyahura, 2nd drum-Nterero, 3rd drum-Irubi, 4th drum-Luvugamahame, 5th drum-Chihumurizo. The leader plays his own drum and sometimes the three also on either side of him (4 all told) when setting a rhythm. His second in command also plays his own drum and sometimes one on either side (3 in all). The time setter stands out in front of the line and keeps the time going. This recording was made near a plantation of tall eucalyptus (blue gum) trees and the diffused echo from the boughs and leaves overhead can be clearly heard throughout. Team of Abuiiru drummers, 15 drums, conical, laced and closed, beaten with sticks (-14.22303)
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- Date Issued: 1952
Ngombe ya manengenenge
- Authors: Sons of Barotseland Patriotic Society Choir , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Barotseland f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183725 , vital:44056 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-08
- Description: The song is about a man who very much wanted to marry a certain girl; but had not enough cows to pay the bride price for her. So he made up his mind to go and work in order to earn enough money to buy the cows. He did so, bought the cows and married the girl. "Alleluya" is simply a cheerful refrain copied from the Christians. This song gives the impression of having been influenced by the Nguni of the eastern districts of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) rather than a song of true Lozi origin. Topical song
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- Date Issued: 1952
Inyamibwa
- Authors: Nkeragutabara and Shyirambere , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Shangugu f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148650 , vital:38759 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-01
- Description: An authentic Tutsi song in free moving recitative style. The two singers were the leading dancers of Chief Biniga's Ntore team
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- Date Issued: 1952
Ketu hunyinga
- Authors: Group of Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinkondje f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181986 , vital:43787 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-08
- Description: The four drummers were the chief singers together with their women. Malimba 2 xylophones, on frames without resonators.. 3 goblet drums, once called Itumba and the others Mutumbwe. The Itumba drum was a closed drum with a mirliton fixed into its side, 20" high and with 12 1/2" membrane. The Mutumbwe drums were both weighted with paste to lower their pitch, and had similar mirlitons. The large slit drum, Kunri, was insulated from the ground as it had no legs. In this respect the slit drums behave physically like a xylophone note and must be supported at the two nodes or they will not sound properly. Budye dance, with 2 xylophones, 3 conical drums and 1 slit drum
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- Date Issued: 1952
Kambula
- Authors: Group of Luvale men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Kalwena f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183430 , vital:43989 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-11
- Description: Chikele Kele is the alternative name for the Katchatcha mbira. The seven reeds are tuned with paste or wax beneath their tips. The rhythm set by the struck metal is the common southern Congo rhythm. // 1, 2, 3, 1/2, 1, 2, 1/2 // The Katchatcha keeps up a strange chatter of little or no meaning in the background. Katchatcha dance, with Katchatcha mbira with bamboo reeds resonated on top of metal petrol drum and struck metal
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- Date Issued: 1952
Bamurangahe
- Authors: Twa musicians of Chief Biniga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Shangugu f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148704 , vital:38765 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-06
- Description: Songs for the Intore dancers and their Imihamilizo dance, the traditional Tutsi dance. The opening cadenza by the leading horn player well demonstrates the technique of horn playing. Imihamilizo Tutsi dance songs with Makondera horns (composite) and drum
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- Date Issued: 1952
Chitengi
- Authors: Andre Boniface Wahamba and group of Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Villa Luzu f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183309 , vital:43954 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-02
- Description: "Black cloth may not be worn by a woman who is about to have a child, she may use any other coloured cloth but not black." Such simple sentences revealing local etiquette are quite enough to inspire a local dance song. The Chokwe are more renowned for their beautiful chip carving than for their music, much of it sung in organum. Chianda dance song woth Sangu rattles, leg rattles held in the hand and gourds on sticks
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- Date Issued: 1952
Kia Mwangala kia yanamatumbe
- Authors: Group of 12 Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kolwezi f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183958 , vital:44089 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-09
- Description: Drums. Kayanda - conical, open, pegged and weighted (-14.2-). Mitumbwe - goblet, pinned, closed and weighted (-14.52-). Ditumba - goblet, pinned, closed, mirliton (-14.51251-). The drums enter one after the other and end in the same way. The difference in tone between the weighted and the unweighted membranes of the drums can be clearly heard - the weighted drums being both lower in tone and also emitting a slightly slurred or portamento tone, while the unweighted drum sounds a clear hollow note. Katendo dance, with 2 Goblet drums, pegged, closed and hand beaten, and 1 conical drum, pegged, open, and hand beaten
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- Date Issued: 1952
Murengerongoma
- 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/10962/148745 , vital:38770 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-10
- Description: Murengerongoma was a man all of whose children except one, were taken by lions. So the people came and helped him gather firewood and do all household tasks, when they had done this, he danced for them to show his gratitude. Wedding song with hand clapping
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- Date Issued: 1952
Malemba
- Authors: Mukoko Michel , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kabinda f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181977 , vital:43786 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-07
- Description: The mirliton of this instrument was broken. The scale may be Hexatonic. The Kalebwe clan are reported to have aggressive tendencies. A complex interplay of several rhythms with the Chisazhi acting as a gourd, although once the singers get going the sound of the instrument is lost. The clapping appears to follow the same basic rhythm found all over Southern Congo, in which a measure of sixteen pulses is accented as follows:- //1, 3, 5, 7, /, 10, 12, 14, , // or more usually // 1, 3, 5, 78, 10, 12, 14, 15, //. In this part of Africa the leader often starts and stops his men by the cry "A,,,r,r,r,r." Malemba song after funeral with Chisazhi Likembe
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- Date Issued: 1952
Kufidi mpara bituta
- Authors: Eresina and Kasai women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kasai f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181937 , vital:43782 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-03
- Description: The clapping rhythm is the same as in the previous item. "Do not be afraid of an angry face." Drinking song with two singing gourds.
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- Date Issued: 1952
Katela II
- Authors: Kasai men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kasai f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181959 , vital:43784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR177-05
- Description: This song and the accompanying dance is performed when there is a death in the village. Katela is the generic name of this type of dance song. A number of clapping rhythms occur in these songs including:- //1, ; ; 4, ; 6, ; 7, ,//. Katela funeral dance with 2 drums, conical, pegged, single, open
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- Date Issued: 1952
Muzamaelo wa mahule
- Authors: Sons of Barotseland Patriotic Society Choir , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Barotseland f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183671 , vital:44047 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-03
- Description: A song in which the women of easy virture are held up as a laughing stock in this way the community hopes to discourage them. The Lozi are well known for their morality songs which are sung for the express purpose of creating social solidarity. On account of the rain outside, the item was recorded inside the welfare hall thus giving it unwarrented and unsuitable reverberation for a folk song. Morality song with clapping
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- Date Issued: 1952
Kanenga
- Authors: Louis Mulowa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilunga f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182985 , vital:43900 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-14
- Description: A player was sorry when his friend finished his food so he sat down to sing to his Chisanzhi Mbira. It is not easy to understand the relationships between the pitch of the instrument and the pitch of the players voice. It appears to be consistant and must therefore bear some relationship in his mind. The scale of his Chisanzhi was:- 424, 380, 344, 304, 280, 266, 232, 212 vs. The tips of the players fingers were constantly moist and sticky and he kept a supply of dry sand beside him to rub on his finger tips before playing. Personal laments, with Chizanzhi Mbira
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- Date Issued: 1952
Tarihinda
- 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/10962/148735 , vital:38768 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-09
- Description: Sung in the evening at a girl's party. "You must do your best to look neat and tidy, thouugh you may not be beautiful. If your thread breaks when you are sewing tie it up again. Wedding song with hand clapping
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- Date Issued: 1952
Benimana
- Authors: Batwa women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Rundi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Africa Rwanda Shangugu f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148881 , vital:38782 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR058-03
- Description: "May the Omwami go in peace, may he prosper and be with God." The Batwa are Pigmoids and the court singers were drawn from their ranks. In this instance the women were all wives of potters, pottery being one of the Twa crafts. Praise song for chief with handclapping.
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- Date Issued: 1952
Tuimba nyundo tuimbo tuwelela
- Authors: Group of 12 Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kolwezi f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183950 , vital:44087 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-08
- Description: Drums. Kayanda - conical, open, pegged and weighted (-14.2-). Mitumbwe - goblet, pinned, closed and weighted (-14.52-). Ditumba - goblet, pinned, closed, mirliton (-14.51251-). The drums enter one after the other and end in the same way. The difference in tone between the weighted and the unweighted membranes of the drums can be clearly heard - the weighted drums being both lower in tone and also emitting a slightly slurred or portamento tone, while the unweighted drum sounds a clear hollow note. Katendo dance, with 2 Goblet drums, pegged, closed and hand beaten, and 1 conical drum, pegged, open, and hand beaten
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- Date Issued: 1952