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Mapani

Kamuteketi, Kamuteketi, chalu chinu cha ulendo (I came here as a stranger)

  • Authors: Iron Khoma , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Tumbuka , Malawi , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Luvale/Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137312 , vital:37509 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0037-03
  • Description: "At our place at home, you will find Beti Kamanga, the son of Balidi. I will stay here till night and sleep until morning. My head is coming through my hair. My father and mother are both dead and I am very poor. Jesus called Moses to leave his fishing and come to Him, on Lake Nyasa." Self-delectative nostalgic song with Bangwe board zither with 7 strings, lowest not used.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Ngiyakutanda

  • Authors: Nkomo, Josiah , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1951-06-04
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Not specified f-rh
  • Language: Ndebele
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/223142 , vital:48953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT330-G2 , Research no. E2A3
  • Description: A love song accompanied by a guitar.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1951-06-04

Kariaara

Ushuru wa guitare

Ushuru wa guitare

Richmond Dance

Mkhema Ye

Nane yalakonite ifigolofu nda ngombe

Ngoma ya Shirilo

Title not specified

Jesu Redemptor Omnium

Munya, gwerira munyale

  • Authors: Evaristo N. Muyinda and Yakobo Ssewakirya , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Ssaza Kyagwe f-ug
  • Language: Ganda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171058 , vital:42014 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-08
  • Description: This is a song about a Gekko lizard. The lizard, he says, is a harmless animal, it does not eat food like other animals. All it eats is soot, nor does it despise anybody, so why kill it. If one of these Gekko lizards is killed seven others would take the case to the chief and they will win their case. So do not kill the gekko lizard. The two lyres were tuned an ocatve apart and were said to be exactly in tune with lyre played by Bulasiyo. viz:- 286, 336, 194, 168, 144, 194, 248 vs. Topical song, with Nango horizontal 8 string harp.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952

Themb'sie

Makwarara

Wolemwa

Arap Chepsiolei

  • Authors: Akito Arap Yeko , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya City not specified f-ke
  • Language: Nandi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/298764 , vital:57740 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP2038-XYZ5473
  • Description: Indigenous music
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Mafa

Jesu redemptor omnium

Safari ya baraka

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