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Izibongo

- Zwakanye Dlamini, Hugh Tracey

Famba mpore usadngana mumbuyo (Go over carefully, do not look behind you)

- Zuake Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

Kusambare (I have no relatives)

- Zuake Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

Mandowa (Part 4)

- Zhuake Masingi (Performer), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Mandowa (Part 3)

- Zhuake Masingi (Performer), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Mandowa (Part 2)

- Zhuake Masingi (Performer), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Mandowa (Part 1)

- Zhuake Masingi (Performer), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

China mureya

- Zemaria Leon Marunga, Hugh Tracey

Diya Kilango

- Zegive and Mvu people, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Zegive and Mvu people , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Language: Mvuba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166624 , vital:41386
  • Description: This tribe, like many of the non-Bantu tribes in this North East part of the Congo are very simple people indeed. The country has still few roads and the carrying of officials and others whose work takes into remote parts is still common. The chair or mashila which they carry is locally called Tipoyi. Work song (carrying Sedan chair), with harp, likembe, bells and basket rattle.
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Ayambungu

- Zayi Pierre and Bodagi Alias and Ngbandi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Zayi Pierre and Bodagi Alias and Ngbandi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Language: Ngbandi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166971 , vital:41424
  • Description: "If ever I have a man out in prison I shall take him to the tribunal first." The tuning of bamboo notes is not easy as with metal notes on account of the nature of the overtones produced by bamboo. The tuning of these Ngombi Likembe was not quite the same as in the previous items, the reeds of bamboo from left to right was 236, 152, 212, 138, 200, 182, 166 and 332 vs. which gives a heptatonic scale:- 332, (304), (276), 236, 212, 200, 182, 166, 152, 138 vs. The top of this bowl shaped likembe was sewn onto the body which was made from a solid log hollowed out like a bowl with an 8" handle. The body was 21" broad and 7" deep. Topical song with Ngombi Likembe with bamboo notes.
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Masanga nyi maye

- Zayi Pierre and Bodagi Alias and Ngbandi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Zayi Pierre and Bodagi Alias and Ngbandi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Language: Ngbandi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166980 , vital:41425
  • Description: "If ever I have a man out in prison I shall take him to the tribunal first." The tuning of bamboo notes is not easy as with metal notes on account of the nature of the overtones produced by bamboo. The tuning of these Ngombi Likembe was not quite the same as in the previous items, the reeds of bamboo from left to right was 236, 152, 212, 138, 200, 182, 166 and 332 vs. which gives a heptatonic scale:- 332, (304), (276), 236, 212, 200, 182, 166, 152, 138 vs. The top of this bowl shaped likembe was sewn onto the body which was made from a solid log hollowed out like a bowl with an 8" handle. The body was 21" broad and 7" deep. Topical song with Ngombi Likembe with bamboo notes.
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Wolala (Wolala, why! Wolala, I am leaving)

- Young Xhosa men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young Xhosa men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150770 , vital:39004
  • Description: Wolala is a man's name. There are few if any words in the lyric. This was sung by a group of young people, the girls and boys rather younger than the first group and not so gaily dressed. The girls clap their hands and stamp one foot alternately swinging rhythmically forward and backward. Mtshotsho dance for young men and women with clapping.
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Ririka-ririka rerera-ririka (When I die what shall I leave behind)

- Young Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

Ai-ye! Nzara yakabora (Ai-ye! Famine has come)

- Young Tonga men and girls, Hugh Tracey

Tsuro Wa siye mwana (The rabbit has left its child)

- Young Tonga men and girls, Hugh Tracey

Ca a nelwe kolobe (Give the pig to no one)

- Young school girls, Hugh Tracey

Chikangaide (The bird)

- Young police, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young police , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music
  • Language: Ngoni
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154956 , vital:39797
  • Description: Once there were some children who took their mother's clothes and gave them to a bird, and the bird started singing and said, "The children were playing and took their mother's clothes and gave them to me knowing nothing because I am only a bird from the bush." The father came and waited for the bird to kill it, but hearing the bird singing so prettily he forgot his anger and in fact went anf gave the bird still more clothes. This is a variation of the old theme of the enchantment of music. It perhaps does not indicate an aeshetic pleasure in the natural song of the blind but rather in the words of the song which it is supposed to have sung. Nthano story song with clapping.
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Kwela siya hamba (Let's go)

- Young men of Tuku's Location, Hugh Tracey

Molweni nonke (How do you do everybody)

- Young men of Tuku's Location, Hugh Tracey

No talili

- Young men of Tuku's Location, Hugh Tracey

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