Mutoto wa mashikini
- Authors: Myundu Gabriel (Dilele munenge flute) , Kwadi Bonza (Chisanzhi) , Luba men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kabongo f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183886 , vital:44080 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-01
- Description: This rather unusual duet played by two elderly men on Chisanzhi and Dilele munenge flute is remarkable for the musicianship they display. When asked why they played music like this, they replied, "To give our haters courage." In view of the severe troubles with which they and their people were to be confronted in the years ahead one can only hope that their music did indeed give them and their families that courage to face their ordeals in the Kasai and the Katanga so shortly to overtake them. The flute player uses voiced notes while he blows. The music is sometimes played to the "Sultan", the chief, 'in order to refresh his spirit'. Nyundu Gabriel said that when he was feeling sad, tired of depressed he would play this music to cheer himself up. The Chisanzhi (Mbira) keeps up a fascinating accompaniment. (See also TR 39 and TR 40). Self delectative song with sibe blown flute and Chisanzhi (-13.37206 x 18-)
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- Date Issued: 1957
Mutshwa kusaeuhamhish Musoka wa (The Judge, Musoka, is going)
- Authors: Group of 9 Lunda men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Katanga f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139376 , vital:37732 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-02
- Description: The memember of the group who sets the rhythm is called "Mbayo." The two basket rattles Litswakaie are made of a basket work woven onto a piece of gourd for a base. Ceremonial farewell song with 1 box drum, hand beaten, 2 Litswakaie basket rattles and 1 bottle.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Muzengalenge wetu munyine
- Authors: Group of Luba soilders , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Katanga f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182227 , vital:43812 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-06
- Description: This group of men were all members of the military band at Elizabethville. In spite of their daily playing of European instruments they fall naturally back into their native modes as soon as they sing as a tribal group. Madings dance with drum, bottle, and sticks
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- Date Issued: 1952
Mwa mwena dehe-ye-yele
- Authors: Gibson Zenzi with Luunda men , 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/10962/182895 , vital:43890 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-04
- Description: "All is quiet." Bottles are a favourite accompaniment for most tunes on the Copperbelt of Northern Rhodesia, simple, cheap, and effective for playing across rhythms. The chorus sings in organum. Four Sikinta dance song with struck bottles
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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
Mwanami waya mwiyawu
- Authors: Gibson Zenzi with Luunda men , 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/10962/182868 , vital:43887 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-01
- Description: "The child lost in the forest." In this part of Africa the whole countryside is covered with thick bush and trees up to 40 or 50 feet high. It would be particularly easy to lose oneself in this endless bush. Four Sikinta dance song with struck bottles
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- Date Issued: 1952
Na katingili na shikatingili
- Authors: Children of the Mindola African school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kawambwa f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182927 , vital:43894 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-08
- Description: A story about two buck. Story song
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- Date Issued: 1952
Nalongana maani (What will I do today)
- Authors: Kaseba Anatole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137932 , vital:37575 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-10
- Description: A poor boys: "I have no father, no mother, I am very poor, I have nothing to eat, what shall I do today." Personal lament with guitar.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Nilikwenda kwetu (I wanted to go on a journey to my country)
- Authors: Kaseba Anatole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Folk songs, Swahili , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137914 , vital:37573 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-08
- Description: Although a Luba by tribe, the singer sang this song in Swhaili. Nostalgic song with guitar.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Nse-nse tubatwalilile
- Authors: Children of the Mindola African school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kawambwa f-za
- Language: Lunda , Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182922 , vital:43893 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-07
- Description: A wedding song telling a young couple that if anyone came between them it would be entirely their own fault. Wedding song
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- Date Issued: 1952
Ntanga
- Authors: Group of Lulua soilders and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Luluabourg f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182191 , vital:43808 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-02
- Description: "We are very happy in our village, we have plenty of beer and gaiety and want to be left alone." The singing gourd can be heard only towards the end of the item. Maringa dance with Chisanzhi Mbira, two pairs of rattles, basket rattle, singing gourd bottle and clapping
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- Date Issued: 1952
Ntende
- Authors: Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Kabinda f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139481 , vital:37742 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-08
- Description: The larger drum was also tapped on the side by a stick. The clapping was done with cupped hands. The Chief de Centre Kapenda, was the head of this group. Jadotville is the headquaters of the central region of the Union Miniere, the other 2 towns being Elizabethville in the East and Kolwezi in the West. It was originally famous for the fact that one of the mines, Shinkolobwe, was the first place in the world from which the famous Curie family obtained the radium for their experiments. At Panda, there is a museum of mineral crystals discovered in the Katanga mines. Kawidi dance with 2 goblet drums, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons, hand beaten.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Nyambilichina twali akwawu ku Muwewu (Nyambilichi is taking other girls to Muwewu) (
- Authors: Group of 14 Lunda men and 4 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilungu f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139348 , vital:37729 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-13
- Description: The Lunda or Luunda people came into the territory which is now N. Rhodesia from the Congo. They now form a group of about 50,000 east of the Luapula river. Kahaku ceremonial dance song with rattle and struck bottle.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Sabwabwa
- Authors: Group of 5 Kete men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Katanga f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139402 , vital:37735 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-03
- Description: The slit drum is called mutumba (the canoe) and the cylindrical drum is Nguma. This group is situated between the Lunda and the Luba. A notably fierce and savage people. They come from the extreme south of the Kasai-near the Angola border. This dance was (in the old days) danced with a slave in the midst. At the final "Ho" (characteristic of the dance) the slave's head was severed at a single blow. The 3 xylophones were propped up at sn angle of about 45 degrees by small forked sticks. The resonators were either gourds or lengths of bamboo with open mirliton. The bamboo resonators were palstered with mud, presumably to stop their cracking. Each note was attached to the frame with a simple cord, but prevented from slipping by a second string attached near the node and made fast onto the frame. The insulating material on the frame was a bundle of long grass in each case. The three xylophones were called:- Dujimba devase. " dwapakadie. " dwa mukuma. Maza dance for men and women with 1 slit drum (canoe), 1 weighted cylindrical drum (Nguma), open hand beaten and 3 xylophones.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Seyo
- Authors: Group of Luba soilders , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Katanga f-rh
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182218 , vital:43811 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR178-05
- Description: The drum happened to be a Chokwe drum and was borrowed by this Luba group. "I do not have to call a girl, she comes because of my uniform." The age old fascination for the man in uniform appeard to hold good for the khaki uniform of African askari in the Congo also. Kalinda dance.
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- Date Issued: 1952
Shabansa katende
- Authors: Ngoi Nono, Kabongo Anastase with 9 Luba men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kabongo f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137941 , vital:37576 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR040-11
- Description: Topical song with 2 guitars, bottle and small rattle.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Souvenirs de Chasseur
- Authors: Les Chanteurs a la Croix du Cuivre , Joseph Kiwele (Conductor) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mission St. Jean f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183969 , vital:44102 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR183-10
- Description: The songs are in the Luba/Sanga language, but with words of Bemba here and there. The titles of the first words of each 'memory' were given by Joseph Kiwele. In this composition, Joseph Kiwele collected together all the hunting songs of his home district and combined them in a composite whole. They were sung by his choir of school boys who made their name famous by being the first to sing an African composed Mass, also composed by Kiwele, "Missa Katanga". The choir partially disbanded about 1950 and the remnants only appear in this recording. Joseph Kiwele nine years later became Minister of Education in Katanga under President Tshombe but died suddenly of a strokein 1962 after an outstanding musical career. A miscellany of twenty-two hunting songs, with 2 Goblet drums and 1 wooden slit drum
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- Date Issued: 1952
Tiana pa makulu
- Authors: Group of Lunda women and Albertina Kashiala , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Democratic Republic Katanga f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139528 , vital:37747 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-12
- Description: The antiphonal form of this item is interesting, the chorus changing their response to match the lead by the soloist, often repeating the final word of the solo as the first word of the chorus. Sikinta dance with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Tuhuri
- Authors: Large group of Kasai women and 6 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Luba-Lulua , Luba (African people) , Cultural anthropology , Luba-Lulua language , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Luba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137745 , vital:37555 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR039-05
- Description: The buzzing or nasalizing effect of the small mirliton membranes inserted into the side of the drums is clearly heard throughout this recording. The women who play the singing gourds hold their mouths just inside the orifice of their gourds and voice their notes with taught lips, using alternate sides of their mouth, as if they were lipping a trumpet or bugle. The cavity of the gourd thus resonates the sound produced. In addition, they slap the outside of their gourd rhythmically as they hold it between the palms of their hands. Wedding and ceremonial with 4 goblet drums, closed, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons. Quiet hand clapping (-12.05-) and 4 singing gourds. (-11.13-).
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- Date Issued: 1957
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