Mampenenga drum rhythms
- 3 Nyakyusa drummers with Nyakyusa women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: 3 Nyakyusa drummers with Nyakyusa women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Arts, Malawi , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Ngonde (African people)--music , Drum--Performance , Africa Malawi Tukuyu f-mw
- Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151819 , vital:39176 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-01
- Description: The Mampenenga is danced in silence to the accompaniment of the drums. The dancers, all men wore long Swahili "Kikoye" or skirts. The bass drummer uses one of his sticks as a pressure stick occassionally to raise the note on the membrane. The dance is a form of slow graceful prancing with much bending of the kness and swinging, raising and lowering of fly-whisks in the right hand. Mampenenga and Kalulu dance with 1 conical drum, laced, 2 cylindrical laced drums with wooden beaters.
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- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: 3 Nyakyusa drummers with Nyakyusa women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Arts, Malawi , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Ngonde (African people)--music , Drum--Performance , Africa Malawi Tukuyu f-mw
- Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151819 , vital:39176 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-01
- Description: The Mampenenga is danced in silence to the accompaniment of the drums. The dancers, all men wore long Swahili "Kikoye" or skirts. The bass drummer uses one of his sticks as a pressure stick occassionally to raise the note on the membrane. The dance is a form of slow graceful prancing with much bending of the kness and swinging, raising and lowering of fly-whisks in the right hand. Mampenenga and Kalulu dance with 1 conical drum, laced, 2 cylindrical laced drums with wooden beaters.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Kaitana
- Abdalla Feza Ibraim, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Abdalla Feza Ibraim , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172060 , vital:42154 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-14
- Description: A story about a chief called Mutu who was out of favour with the English local authorities and wanted to renounce his position. Topical song with Nanga trough zither.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Abdalla Feza Ibraim , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172060 , vital:42154 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-14
- Description: A story about a chief called Mutu who was out of favour with the English local authorities and wanted to renounce his position. Topical song with Nanga trough zither.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Mauko
- Charles Wanga with Wanga men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Charles Wanga with Wanga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Wanga (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Nyanza f-ke
- Language: Wanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176430 , vital:42694 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR161-14
- Description: The blind singer repeats the well known local fighting song. "We are the lions, we attack anything which disturbs us." Song after fighting, with 1 pair of Tsindeche leg bells.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Charles Wanga with Wanga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Wanga (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Nyanza f-ke
- Language: Wanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176430 , vital:42694 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR161-14
- Description: The blind singer repeats the well known local fighting song. "We are the lions, we attack anything which disturbs us." Song after fighting, with 1 pair of Tsindeche leg bells.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Asimati kotokoto
- Authors: Chewa women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159556 , vital:40311 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-01
- Description: "A Simati stole the money of A Kesi, he stole the money." 'A Kesi' - 'A' is the honorofic prefix, equivalent to the use of 'Mr' in English, when placed before a proper name. This theft occured just one month previously in April 1958 when A Simati is said to have stolen six pounds sent by post from the Mkoma mission to A Kesi, a woman of this village. The case was tried and A Simati was convicted. The woman at once lampooned him in this song for all to hear. Swift community retribution for his crime. Chintali dance with bass drum.
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Chewa women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159556 , vital:40311 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-01
- Description: "A Simati stole the money of A Kesi, he stole the money." 'A Kesi' - 'A' is the honorofic prefix, equivalent to the use of 'Mr' in English, when placed before a proper name. This theft occured just one month previously in April 1958 when A Simati is said to have stolen six pounds sent by post from the Mkoma mission to A Kesi, a woman of this village. The case was tried and A Simati was convicted. The woman at once lampooned him in this song for all to hear. Swift community retribution for his crime. Chintali dance with bass drum.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Lithoko
- Composer not specified, Sam Mosheshwe and another (Performers), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Composer not specified , Sam Mosheshwe and another (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Speeches, addresses, etc., African , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133988 , vital:37057 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-06
- Description: 2 Lithoko praises
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- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Composer not specified , Sam Mosheshwe and another (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Speeches, addresses, etc., African , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133988 , vital:37057 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR016-06
- Description: 2 Lithoko praises
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- Date Issued: 1957
Wezulu walila (The Zulu are crying)
- Authors: Gordon Mwale , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160844 , vital:40552 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-10
- Description: A dance often the traditional Ngoni style which is clearly related to similar tunes still performed by the Nguni (Zulu) people of Natal. Ngoma dance song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Gordon Mwale , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160844 , vital:40552 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-10
- Description: A dance often the traditional Ngoni style which is clearly related to similar tunes still performed by the Nguni (Zulu) people of Natal. Ngoma dance song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Uyezwa ngendumo macaba ngendumo
- Joel M, Ngoni men, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Joel M , Ngoni men , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184482 , vital:44227 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-10
- Description: This somg is taken from an old Ngoni regimental song which would, in the old days, have been used only as a song after hunting. This style of singing is indigenous to Zululand rather than Nyasaland and was brought up north in the early nineteenth century migration of the two distinct groups, the Jiri and the Gomani. The Jiri came up through the highlands of what is now Southern Rhodesia and sacked the settlement at Zimbabwe on their way. In one or two words the change over from the Zulu "L" to the Nyasa "R" can be discerned. After hunting and killing a lion the party will dance the Mgubo before the chief and earn an ox in reward. Mgubo dance song, after hunting leopard or lion
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Joel M , Ngoni men , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184482 , vital:44227 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-10
- Description: This somg is taken from an old Ngoni regimental song which would, in the old days, have been used only as a song after hunting. This style of singing is indigenous to Zululand rather than Nyasaland and was brought up north in the early nineteenth century migration of the two distinct groups, the Jiri and the Gomani. The Jiri came up through the highlands of what is now Southern Rhodesia and sacked the settlement at Zimbabwe on their way. In one or two words the change over from the Zulu "L" to the Nyasa "R" can be discerned. After hunting and killing a lion the party will dance the Mgubo before the chief and earn an ox in reward. Mgubo dance song, after hunting leopard or lion
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- Date Issued: 1950
Owa Kalema
- Kyomile Kabanyolekile with Haya men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kyomile Kabanyolekile with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171944 , vital:42141 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-06
- Description: "The Mukama of Kalema we call 'King Jojo'." (King George). These fishermen come from the district of Chief Garikani of Kalema. A touch of local patriotism compares their chief with the King of England. Paddling song with conical laced drum, beaten with sticks and clapping (-12.03-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Kyomile Kabanyolekile with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171944 , vital:42141 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-06
- Description: "The Mukama of Kalema we call 'King Jojo'." (King George). These fishermen come from the district of Chief Garikani of Kalema. A touch of local patriotism compares their chief with the King of England. Paddling song with conical laced drum, beaten with sticks and clapping (-12.03-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Mammalo Sebolelo
- Lesoli Maboka and large group of young men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Lesoli Maboka and large group of young men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161280 , vital:40612 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-04
- Description: "You don't speak about a boy with an onion headdress. I don't speak about our uninitiated girls. I don't speak about earings that become me nor about your buying earings or bungles." Lengae men's initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Lesoli Maboka and large group of young men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161280 , vital:40612 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-04
- Description: "You don't speak about a boy with an onion headdress. I don't speak about our uninitiated girls. I don't speak about earings that become me nor about your buying earings or bungles." Lengae men's initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Ziriya yapasharo
- Manyoni Zhou and Simoni Mashoko Shawa, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Manyoni Zhou and Simoni Mashoko Shawa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chilimanzi f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181444 , vital:43734 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR175-04
- Description: It is usual for semi-professional entertainers of this kind to keep up running patter of amusing remarks and scandal to the traditional airs played on the Njari in the background. Like many other players of this instrument Manyoni Zhou calls himself "The player of Mbira". The two musicians come from neighbouring districts, Zhou from Chilimanzi and Mashoko from Buhera, the district in which the Njari originated about 1760 A.D. Topical song with two Njari Mbira, one with 33 notes and one with 31 notes.
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- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Manyoni Zhou and Simoni Mashoko Shawa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chilimanzi f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181444 , vital:43734 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR175-04
- Description: It is usual for semi-professional entertainers of this kind to keep up running patter of amusing remarks and scandal to the traditional airs played on the Njari in the background. Like many other players of this instrument Manyoni Zhou calls himself "The player of Mbira". The two musicians come from neighbouring districts, Zhou from Chilimanzi and Mashoko from Buhera, the district in which the Njari originated about 1760 A.D. Topical song with two Njari Mbira, one with 33 notes and one with 31 notes.
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- Date Issued: 1949
Ikulangamilaga kwilunde
- Mikengemalo Chaba with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mikengemalo Chaba with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173331 , vital:42357 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-09
- Description: "The red necked cock looked up to the sky." The cutting of cicatrices on the face is accompanied by songs such as these, and by festivities and dancing. There is a local breed of fowls which have no feathers on their necks and very red skin. The song refers to a certain diviner who used to smear his face and neck with red earth. The people of the village can be heard chatting and laughing during the song, and a bird can be heard in the background of the second song. Ucheyeki song for cutting cicatrices.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Mikengemalo Chaba with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173331 , vital:42357 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-09
- Description: "The red necked cock looked up to the sky." The cutting of cicatrices on the face is accompanied by songs such as these, and by festivities and dancing. There is a local breed of fowls which have no feathers on their necks and very red skin. The song refers to a certain diviner who used to smear his face and neck with red earth. The people of the village can be heard chatting and laughing during the song, and a bird can be heard in the background of the second song. Ucheyeki song for cutting cicatrices.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Ikulangamilaga kwilunde
- Mikengemalo Chaba with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mikengemalo Chaba with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173318 , vital:42359 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-09
- Description: "The red necked cock looked up to the sky." The cutting of cicatrices on the face is accompanied by songs such as these, and by festivities and dancing. There is a local breed of fowls which have no feathers on their necks and very red skin. The song refers to a certain diviner who used to smear his face and neck with red earth. The people of the village can be heard chatting and laughing during the song, and a bird can be heard in the background of the second song. Ucheyeki song for cutting cicatrices.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Mikengemalo Chaba with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173318 , vital:42359 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-09
- Description: "The red necked cock looked up to the sky." The cutting of cicatrices on the face is accompanied by songs such as these, and by festivities and dancing. There is a local breed of fowls which have no feathers on their necks and very red skin. The song refers to a certain diviner who used to smear his face and neck with red earth. The people of the village can be heard chatting and laughing during the song, and a bird can be heard in the background of the second song. Ucheyeki song for cutting cicatrices.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Bandiya yo
- Nakule ,and two other players and dancers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nakule ,and two other players and dancers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Nguru f-cg
- Language: Zande/Bandiya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167803 , vital:41511 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0123-03
- Description: These loose note xylophones are played by three ad sometimes four men sitting on either side of the instrument. The Zande dance is performed in a circle to the cheerful sound of the xylophone. All the dancers move in union with small steps in a set pattern which ensures that the circle moves around gradually in an anti-clockwise direction. A characteristic gesture by Zande dancers is the holding out of the hands, palms upwards gently raising and lowering the forearms in time with the music. Zande dance with Kponingbo xylophone.
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- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Nakule ,and two other players and dancers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Nguru f-cg
- Language: Zande/Bandiya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167803 , vital:41511 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0123-03
- Description: These loose note xylophones are played by three ad sometimes four men sitting on either side of the instrument. The Zande dance is performed in a circle to the cheerful sound of the xylophone. All the dancers move in union with small steps in a set pattern which ensures that the circle moves around gradually in an anti-clockwise direction. A characteristic gesture by Zande dancers is the holding out of the hands, palms upwards gently raising and lowering the forearms in time with the music. Zande dance with Kponingbo xylophone.
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- Date Issued: 1952
Odjea
- Njenje and Medje tipoyi carriers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Njenje and Medje tipoyi carriers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Medje f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166788 , vital:41404 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0120-05
- Description: "Come quickly father, we are fighting with a leopard." Any subject can be the theme for a sedan chair song. The four carriers walk in file, each pair lifting the chair by means of a yoke, before and after, with the chair itself in between. Relief carriers walk in front and behind. Work song with basket rattle.
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- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Njenje and Medje tipoyi carriers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Medje f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166788 , vital:41404 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0120-05
- Description: "Come quickly father, we are fighting with a leopard." Any subject can be the theme for a sedan chair song. The four carriers walk in file, each pair lifting the chair by means of a yoke, before and after, with the chair itself in between. Relief carriers walk in front and behind. Work song with basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Nkanga zikulima
- Nyakela with Gogo man and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nyakela with Gogo man and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Gogo (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mvumi f-tz
- Language: Gogo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174185 , vital:42450 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR154-10
- Description: "Come and see how the Nkanga work in their garden." The Malimba were large trough shaped zithers, 3' 10" long supported at either end by two large gourds upon which they were held. Owing to the lowness of the notes they produced, the sound of the drums drowned them. But the three players shook their long strings of red ochred hair in most ecstatic style as they played and sang. The Zithers were tuned as follows:-103, 90, 84, 76, 63 vs. Both 76 and 63 vs had two strings each. The strings are plucked about 4 inches from one end. The spectators crowd around the small group of zither players and drummers, who sitting on the ground or standing holding their hour glass drums between their knees, jump and shake their long locks as if they were possessed. They say several hours of this performance frequently gives the performers a kind of involuntary hysteria which takes time to calm. The drums appear to be played out of tune with the rest of the performance. Dance song for Isumbi dance with 2 hour glass drums (-14.31201-), 3 Malimba trough zithers (-10.3515-), Ndwala bells (-12.55-), flat tin rattles(-12.54-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Nyakela with Gogo man and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Gogo (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mvumi f-tz
- Language: Gogo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174185 , vital:42450 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR154-10
- Description: "Come and see how the Nkanga work in their garden." The Malimba were large trough shaped zithers, 3' 10" long supported at either end by two large gourds upon which they were held. Owing to the lowness of the notes they produced, the sound of the drums drowned them. But the three players shook their long strings of red ochred hair in most ecstatic style as they played and sang. The Zithers were tuned as follows:-103, 90, 84, 76, 63 vs. Both 76 and 63 vs had two strings each. The strings are plucked about 4 inches from one end. The spectators crowd around the small group of zither players and drummers, who sitting on the ground or standing holding their hour glass drums between their knees, jump and shake their long locks as if they were possessed. They say several hours of this performance frequently gives the performers a kind of involuntary hysteria which takes time to calm. The drums appear to be played out of tune with the rest of the performance. Dance song for Isumbi dance with 2 hour glass drums (-14.31201-), 3 Malimba trough zithers (-10.3515-), Ndwala bells (-12.55-), flat tin rattles(-12.54-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Wacheni tamaa (Do not covet)
- Ramadhani Fataki (Udi), Saidi Salum Nana (Mandoline) and Tatu Binti Jama, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Ramadhani Fataki (Udi), Saidi Salum Nana (Mandoline) and Tatu Binti Jama , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179660 , vital:43130 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-10
- Description: The Arab influence is still strong up country particularly along the old Arab trading routes. All the seven items on this side of the disc represent an evening's entertainment spent with a Mohamedan Swahili family in Tabora whose taste in music leans towrds the Arab side of the family than the African. Two close friends who frequently play together in the evenings recorded these items. The wife of one of them provides some of the solos. They are typical, no doubt, of a musical evening at home by Swahili players anywhere in East Africa. All the items were recorded in the small sitting room of their Swahili home. The men singers sat around a table in the light of a parafin lamp and their veiled womenfolk sat on mats in the adjoining rooms, watching through the doorways. "Do not covet because there is no colour bar in jail. Even though you go to London and become a Barrister at law if you are in trouble you are in trouble just the same. I am a somebody at my home but prison they regard me as a nobody" Topical Taarab song, with 1 Udi, 1 Mandoline and 1 Duff tambourine drum (-14.91-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Ramadhani Fataki (Udi), Saidi Salum Nana (Mandoline) and Tatu Binti Jama , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179660 , vital:43130 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-10
- Description: The Arab influence is still strong up country particularly along the old Arab trading routes. All the seven items on this side of the disc represent an evening's entertainment spent with a Mohamedan Swahili family in Tabora whose taste in music leans towrds the Arab side of the family than the African. Two close friends who frequently play together in the evenings recorded these items. The wife of one of them provides some of the solos. They are typical, no doubt, of a musical evening at home by Swahili players anywhere in East Africa. All the items were recorded in the small sitting room of their Swahili home. The men singers sat around a table in the light of a parafin lamp and their veiled womenfolk sat on mats in the adjoining rooms, watching through the doorways. "Do not covet because there is no colour bar in jail. Even though you go to London and become a Barrister at law if you are in trouble you are in trouble just the same. I am a somebody at my home but prison they regard me as a nobody" Topical Taarab song, with 1 Udi, 1 Mandoline and 1 Duff tambourine drum (-14.91-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Mutitira (Happiness)
- S. Ruhume, Akiki with Toro men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: S. Ruhume, Akiki with Toro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bukuku f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170373 , vital:41914 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-01
- Description: "The bird has seen its friend, that is why it is happy." This means that the host at the party is happy with his friends. The Mateguru dance is frequently performed at drinking parties. The song makes a very jolly round. Mateguru dance song for men and women with Emugudu cylindrical drum, footed, pegged, one conical drum laced, single, played with hands.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: S. Ruhume, Akiki with Toro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bukuku f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170373 , vital:41914 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-01
- Description: "The bird has seen its friend, that is why it is happy." This means that the host at the party is happy with his friends. The Mateguru dance is frequently performed at drinking parties. The song makes a very jolly round. Mateguru dance song for men and women with Emugudu cylindrical drum, footed, pegged, one conical drum laced, single, played with hands.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Lala drum rhythms
- Safuke, Mwape and Kunda, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Safuke, Mwape and Kunda , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Drum , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134724 , vital:37194 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-09
- Description: This dance, they say, is done upon ant festive occasion. Sai dance with 3 conical drums, hand-beaten, with 2 pairs of rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Safuke, Mwape and Kunda , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Drum , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134724 , vital:37194 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-09
- Description: This dance, they say, is done upon ant festive occasion. Sai dance with 3 conical drums, hand-beaten, with 2 pairs of rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Igumira obuyatabara Ruanda
- Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170083 , vital:41855 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-13
- Description: Igumira was a local chief who used to go over into Rwanda and raid tribes there, the Tutsi and the Hutu. The song is now used for dancing the Ekitagururo dance in which mena nd women do a simple rhythmic shuffle with rattles attached to their calves. The rattles are flat containers made of stout grasses inside which wild canna seeds are thrown to and fro. They are held flat between the palms while the fingers may tap the lower side to enhance the main pulses or to syncopate the rhythm. Ekitagururo dance song, with conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, and three earthenware pots and raft rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170083 , vital:41855 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-13
- Description: Igumira was a local chief who used to go over into Rwanda and raid tribes there, the Tutsi and the Hutu. The song is now used for dancing the Ekitagururo dance in which mena nd women do a simple rhythmic shuffle with rattles attached to their calves. The rattles are flat containers made of stout grasses inside which wild canna seeds are thrown to and fro. They are held flat between the palms while the fingers may tap the lower side to enhance the main pulses or to syncopate the rhythm. Ekitagururo dance song, with conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, and three earthenware pots and raft rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Igumira obuyatabara Ruanda
- Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170074 , vital:41856 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-13
- Description: Igumira was a local chief who used to go over into Rwanda and raid tribes there, the Tutsi and the Hutu. The song is now used for dancing the Ekitagururo dance in which mena nd women do a simple rhythmic shuffle with rattles attached to their calves. The rattles are flat containers made of stout grasses inside which wild canna seeds are thrown to and fro. They are held flat between the palms while the fingers may tap the lower side to enhance the main pulses or to syncopate the rhythm. Ekitagururo dance song, with conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, and three earthenware pots and raft rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170074 , vital:41856 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-13
- Description: Igumira was a local chief who used to go over into Rwanda and raid tribes there, the Tutsi and the Hutu. The song is now used for dancing the Ekitagururo dance in which mena nd women do a simple rhythmic shuffle with rattles attached to their calves. The rattles are flat containers made of stout grasses inside which wild canna seeds are thrown to and fro. They are held flat between the palms while the fingers may tap the lower side to enhance the main pulses or to syncopate the rhythm. Ekitagururo dance song, with conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, and three earthenware pots and raft rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950