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Amadoda e lenge

- L. Shandu (Performer), L. Shandu (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Anindikolelwa

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Askari aku Zomba

- Limbani, Jasoni, Malembesa, Dikisoni, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Brunayini Fofoza

- Mwamitwa, Fofoza (Chief), Shangaan men, Tracey, Hugh

Bwomera envu

- Mulobo Maswa and Soga men (Performer), Composer not specified

  • Authors: Mulobo Maswa and Soga men (Performer) , Composer not specified
  • Subjects: Instrumental flute tune , Indigenous folk music , Ndere end-blown flute , Drums , Handclapping , Bugembe , Kamodi County , Uganda
  • Type: Sound , Music
  • Identifier: vital:15417 , MOA30-05 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017723 , MOA30
  • Description: English translation of title: 'When your hair turns grey, you are getting old' , Flute tune by Mulobo Maswa and Soga men, with ndere end-blown flute, and accompanied by 2 drums and handclapping , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
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Chemirocha

- Chemutoi Ketienya and Kipsigis girls (Performer), Chemutoi Ketienya (Composer)

Chirombo woye nditerere

- Mugadzikwa Mwangona (aged 13), 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 , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Watsa f-cg
  • Language: Mvuba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166624 , vital:41386 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0119-09
  • 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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  • Date Issued: 1952

Enkoito drum rhythms

- Five Haya men, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Five Haya men , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950-08-04
  • Subjects: Drum rhythms , Single laced conical drums (played with sticks) , Indigenous folk music , Kalema , Bugabo , Bukoba , Tanganyika (Tanzania)
  • Language: Nyoro , Haya
  • Type: Sound , Music
  • Identifier: vital:15150 , MOA01-06 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013479 , MOA1 , Tape number: 93 , Master number: 5220-291 , Research number: D4V9 , GALP1324-A1 , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za
  • Description: Drum rhythms by five Haya men, with single laced conical drums (played with sticks) , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music
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Gone yapa

- Kaphatikila Kanyingi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kaphatikila Kanyingi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186635 , vital:44520 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-20
  • Description: The one stringed lute has a wooden bowl for a resonator with a sound hole on its side. The string is strained with a peg but final tuning is achieved by means of a straining string. It is bowed by a reed or bamboo bow with spittle and the fingering is achieved by gripping the string with the inside of the second segment of the second and fouth fingers. Self delecatative song with Karigo one stringed bowed Lute
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Haleluya

- Dargie, Dave

  • Authors: Dargie, Dave
  • Date: 1981-04-19
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Lumko f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/258036 , vital:52927 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD021-02
  • Description: Church music, church hyms, Choral music.
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  • Date Issued: 1981-04-19

Hey wena lovie

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Hi-e mungwe

- Chief Bianoko and his tipoyi carriers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chief Bianoko and his tipoyi carriers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Bira (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombe f-cg
  • Language: Bira
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168374 , vital:41574 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-05
  • Description: The second song strongly resembles those of the Pygmies who were sole occupants of the Ituri forest before the Mabuudu arrived in this locality. They speak of these Mbuti pygmies as Mbutu, a local variation of the pronunciation. Most of the native notables, chiefs and other functionaries are carried around the country from place to place in sedan chairs locally called "tipoyi". The carriers have evolved their oen 'tipoyi' songs and dances. Song and dance with ivory horn basket rattles (-12.54-) and small bell (-12.55-).
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Hi-e mungwe

- Tipoyi carriers of Chief Baonoko, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Inkosi ya Mponda

- Women of Kalana location, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Women of Kalana location , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149476 , vital:38856 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-14
  • Description: A diviner arrived in person but declined to sing with the women who were all sitting around on the floor of the hut, about 80 of them. The married women were more soberly dressed than the young unmarried ones and wore their headclothes in the more usual Xhosa 'pile' of cloth on the head, producing a large loose turban-like effect. Diviner's song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Intetho ye Inkosi

- Chief Madlanya Tantsi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chief Madlanya Tantsi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Speeches, addresses, etc., African , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136344 , vital:37364 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-01
  • Description: This Chief Madlanya Tantsi was a man of great personality and charm. His "Great Place" was situated in a cup of the hills not far from Tabankulu. The speech was delivered to a gathering of his people men and women, seated on the short grass, with their ponies grazing peacefully in the background and the hot afternoon sunshine shining on the wide expanse of hills and grassy slopes beyond. In the course of the speech he made great play with his stick, which was covered with a leopard's tail.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Inwi Munyadziwa haye huna savha dina

- Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by), Nkhumeleni, Masindi (Performer), Composer unknown

Kalilole

- Linilesi Sadiki with Yao girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Linilesi Sadiki with Yao girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Blantyre Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Yao
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154793 , vital:39776 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-14
  • Description: One day little boys went into the forest to play. There they found a big bird which asked them to sing a song the bird wanted to hear, so they went back to the village and consulted their parents about this. After hearing the song from the parents the little boys went back to the forest and sang the song which satisfied the big bird Kalilole. Story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kazela kambe lemba

- Chimwala Ganiziechi and Mwamadi Lokote (Performer), Composer not specified

Kuulaya mtwayungi

- Mlongahilo with Hehe men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mlongahilo with Hehe men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Hehe (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kilolo f-tz
  • Language: Hehe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175058 , vital:42535 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR157-13
  • Description: "England send us another District Commissioner in place of the one who is leaving." The two sets of bells worn on either leg are called:- Mangala yi mulalula which are the high noted bells and Mangala ingahola which are the low noted bells. Dance songs are composed from the simplest factual material, in this case from the fact that the local District Commissioner of Iringa had been transferred. Viwunga dance song for men, with Nduntsi and Ndamula single headed, open pegged hourglass drums, and Mangala bells (-12.55-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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