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Ali wanyola manwa

- Musolwa and Gishu men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Musolwa and Gishu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169435 , vital:41750
  • Description: This song is about a greedy man who eats prodigous amounts of cassava porridge. Wherever he went he always asked for more cassava. The bowl is a wooden platter commonly used for serving food, turned upside down ad beaten with two sticks.
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Choli

- Bachumirwa Tugwenderwa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Bachumirwa Tugwenderwa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169680 , vital:41787
  • Description: This is an interesting instrument as it was bought from Aluur, who tune their instruments to a four interval scale. The first song is about the father who looked after his daughter strictly to the disamy of the lads of the willage. The second is about a vain girl who preened herself and walked along the road to attract people. Topical song with Likembe.
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Eh, Pula aene, e le mogogo (Let it rain)

- Tietse Modisane and group of about 30 women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tietse Modisane and group of about 30 women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165565 , vital:41257
  • Description: "Let it rain! Let it rain so that it washes all the rubbish away with its waters!" The Western Transvaal has inadequate rainfall in many places as low as 15 to 18 inches a year, gradually becoming reduced towards the West and the Kalahari Desert where recently in one region no rain at all has fallen for five years. This accounts for the numerous rain songs to be found among the Tswana tribes who have good cause for anxiety for their crops each year. No rain songs are sung in high rainfall areas. The praise lines or verses are set lines, not impromptu. The words are both archaic and poetic used only for Leboko. The clapping is ritual, but it is always correct to clap the hands when asking for something. The Moroka or rainmaker was the officiant in a rain-making ceremony. Rain song, with clapping.
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I can't take over

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Instrumental song

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Litsoanya II (A nice song)

- Julius Mochekoana and Leboea March, Hugh Tracey

Mukavango

- Performer not specified, Tracey, Andrew T N

Mumabale chonga (That one is my friend)

- Masaria and other Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Masaria and other Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138154 , vital:37600
  • Description: This song were taken during the actual grinding of millet into meal outside a hut. The millet was a fine brown variety known as Munga in Rhodesia. This small work song is sometimes well known by everyone in the village and commonly used by the women as they grind their corn on the stone outside their hut, or they are individual compositions without a name and with few words to the lyrics. Grinding song accompanied by the sound of grindstone.
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Sikati wena ilya bamba lo fourpiece shiya lo two piece la lo ma piccanie (When you eat take four pieces, but leave two for the children)

- Elias Silaule and Edward Mawelele, Hugh Tracey

Siyabulela mama wethu ngesisipho

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Title not specified

- Nuns at Oshikuku Mission, Tracey, Andrew T N, Dargie, Dave

Waboya

- Wamimbi Magombe and Gishu men, Hugh Tracey

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