Ngoneni ngoneni bakithi (What have I done in Mataffin?)
- Roselina Ndohle and Juana Nkosi, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Roselina Ndohle and Juana Nkosi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Transvaal f-sa
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152872 , vital:39351 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-14
- Description: This attractive and delightfull little melody may well form the motif of some future Swazi composition of much larger proportion. The two elderly Swati women who san it were friends and little knew how excellent was their rustic melody. Self delectative song with Makweyana bow.
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Roselina Ndohle and Juana Nkosi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Transvaal f-sa
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152872 , vital:39351 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-14
- Description: This attractive and delightfull little melody may well form the motif of some future Swazi composition of much larger proportion. The two elderly Swati women who san it were friends and little knew how excellent was their rustic melody. Self delectative song with Makweyana bow.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Kamenemene kanokimilembe
- Mwikuru Kija with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mwikuru Kija 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 Maswa f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173791 , vital:42411 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR152-12
- Description: 'A faithless husband is known by the way he neglects his house, drinks carelessly and talks to anyone." The picture of a disolute man. The Wigasha dance is done sitting, the feet and arms only being used to make gestures in unision. Wigasha dance song for men and women.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Mwikuru Kija 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 Maswa f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173791 , vital:42411 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR152-12
- Description: 'A faithless husband is known by the way he neglects his house, drinks carelessly and talks to anyone." The picture of a disolute man. The Wigasha dance is done sitting, the feet and arms only being used to make gestures in unision. Wigasha dance song for men and women.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Wo ye ye Ndaluwuluke (Woye - I am going forever)
- Jimu Machinje and wife (Ngonya), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Jimu Machinje and wife (Ngonya) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa zimbabwe Wankie f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139030 , vital:37697 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-09
- Description: "kabula mwavara."/"I am going to Simangaye." Personal lament with mbira, gourd resonated, one manual plus 2 notes above right and left, gourd rattle and bell.
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- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Jimu Machinje and wife (Ngonya) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa zimbabwe Wankie f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139030 , vital:37697 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-09
- Description: "kabula mwavara."/"I am going to Simangaye." Personal lament with mbira, gourd resonated, one manual plus 2 notes above right and left, gourd rattle and bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Takundambi kumulumi wako (Never mention me to your husband)
- Blakufus Simukolo and "White" Korio, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Blakufus Simukolo and "White" Korio , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138270 , vital:37618 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-15
- Description: "I cannot marry a Luvale girl, or a Shona, because they put on ties. Their only duty is to cut grass, therefore I cannot marry a woman like that." Both singers were full of good beer. Two notes. 416 and 228 vs. Instrument stopped by the left thumb pressed against the longer section of the string at approximately 3 inches from the straining wire. Party song with Kalumbo bow. One-stringed, gourd resonated, struck with reed.
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- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Blakufus Simukolo and "White" Korio , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138270 , vital:37618 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-15
- Description: "I cannot marry a Luvale girl, or a Shona, because they put on ties. Their only duty is to cut grass, therefore I cannot marry a woman like that." Both singers were full of good beer. Two notes. 416 and 228 vs. Instrument stopped by the left thumb pressed against the longer section of the string at approximately 3 inches from the straining wire. Party song with Kalumbo bow. One-stringed, gourd resonated, struck with reed.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Sitima senda namoto
- Josiasi Yemba Mate, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Josiasi Yemba Mate , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Mbunda (African people)--Zambia , Luvale (African people) , Luchazi (African people) , Chokwe (African people) , Folk songs, Chokwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Luanika f-za
- Language: Mbunda , Subiya , Luvale , Luchazi , Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183996 , vital:44149 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR184-02
- Description: "The train it goes with fire, it goes with steam, it goes with light and it goes with water." This piece was composed by Mate when he left his home near the headquaters of the Zambesi and walked across to Livingstone where he saw and boarded his first train which took him to a job in Bulawayo. He was awarded 3rd prize for this item in the 1953 Osborn Award for the best African musician of the year. Topical song with Kathandi Mbira, with 14 notes and external resonator
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Josiasi Yemba Mate , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Mbunda (African people)--Zambia , Luvale (African people) , Luchazi (African people) , Chokwe (African people) , Folk songs, Chokwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Luanika f-za
- Language: Mbunda , Subiya , Luvale , Luchazi , Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183996 , vital:44149 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR184-02
- Description: "The train it goes with fire, it goes with steam, it goes with light and it goes with water." This piece was composed by Mate when he left his home near the headquaters of the Zambesi and walked across to Livingstone where he saw and boarded his first train which took him to a job in Bulawayo. He was awarded 3rd prize for this item in the 1953 Osborn Award for the best African musician of the year. Topical song with Kathandi Mbira, with 14 notes and external resonator
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- Date Issued: 1952
Dzombe Rija (My Grasshopper)
- Authors: Muzize Mware , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza, Kotakota District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153833 , vital:39529 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-08
- Description: "Where does that grasshopper of mine sleep? I won't eat until everyone helps me to catch it."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Muzize Mware , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza, Kotakota District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153833 , vital:39529 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-08
- Description: "Where does that grasshopper of mine sleep? I won't eat until everyone helps me to catch it."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Naba aninduga Kilanja
- Felisiano Karungula with Haya men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Felisiano Karungula 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 / Bibanga f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171788 , vital:42125 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-09
- Description: "On my way back from Kihanja I met that famous girl Felista. She was very beautiful yet she had no husband." On first hearing , this style of singing would appear to have an Arabic or Swahili origin, but this is denied by the singers. Love song with 1 conical laced drum, beaten by sticks, clapping (-12.03-), 1 Nyimba gourd rattle (-12.54-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Felisiano Karungula 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 / Bibanga f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171788 , vital:42125 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-09
- Description: "On my way back from Kihanja I met that famous girl Felista. She was very beautiful yet she had no husband." On first hearing , this style of singing would appear to have an Arabic or Swahili origin, but this is denied by the singers. Love song with 1 conical laced drum, beaten by sticks, clapping (-12.03-), 1 Nyimba gourd rattle (-12.54-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Omusango gwa balere
- Entenga, Royal drummers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Entenga, Royal drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170719 , vital:41953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-14
- Description: One of the royal bands, the flautist, failed upon a certain occasion in their musical duties at the Kabaka's Lubili (palace). They were condemned to death but they pleaded with the Kabaka for leniency as the people of the village from which they came, Bira, had once saved the Kabaka's son, a service which had in the first instance earned them the honour of becoming the royal flautists. The Kabaka (King) forgave them and set them free. This story is the subject of the lyre behind the drum tune here presented. Six drummers play these 15 drums. Four the main set of 12 drums, and two others the three bass drums. The melody of the tune is well brought out both at the beginning and the end of the performance. Drum tunes. Set of 15 Entenga tuned conical drums, laced, closed, single.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Entenga, Royal drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170719 , vital:41953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-14
- Description: One of the royal bands, the flautist, failed upon a certain occasion in their musical duties at the Kabaka's Lubili (palace). They were condemned to death but they pleaded with the Kabaka for leniency as the people of the village from which they came, Bira, had once saved the Kabaka's son, a service which had in the first instance earned them the honour of becoming the royal flautists. The Kabaka (King) forgave them and set them free. This story is the subject of the lyre behind the drum tune here presented. Six drummers play these 15 drums. Four the main set of 12 drums, and two others the three bass drums. The melody of the tune is well brought out both at the beginning and the end of the performance. Drum tunes. Set of 15 Entenga tuned conical drums, laced, closed, single.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Salumu sambusa
- Omari Saidi with Swahili men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Omari Saidi with Swahili men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Zanzibar f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179919 , vital:43249 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-05
- Description: The Mkwaju dance is popular, they say, amongst the more African element of this Swahili population which also shows a tendency towards Arabian and sometimes to Indian music. The population of the island is complex and consists of representatives of several East African tribes in addition to Arab, Indian and Shirazi peoples, and their offspring of mixed marriages. The effect in terms of musical performances is equally complex without unanimity, a phenomena found in other communities of mixed tribal and national marriages. The xylophone is being used as a rhythmic and not as a melodic bass. As the singers wander away from the pitch set by the instrument and pay little or no regard to it. From the style of singing it is suspected that the melody comes from the coastal regions further south from the Makua people of Mozambique - No confirmation of this suggestion could be obtained largely on account of the fact that the performers were second or third generation of mixed marriages on the island. Mkwaju dance song for men, with Marimba xylophone box rattle (-12.61-) and 2 friction sticks (-12.61-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Omari Saidi with Swahili men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Zanzibar f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179919 , vital:43249 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-05
- Description: The Mkwaju dance is popular, they say, amongst the more African element of this Swahili population which also shows a tendency towards Arabian and sometimes to Indian music. The population of the island is complex and consists of representatives of several East African tribes in addition to Arab, Indian and Shirazi peoples, and their offspring of mixed marriages. The effect in terms of musical performances is equally complex without unanimity, a phenomena found in other communities of mixed tribal and national marriages. The xylophone is being used as a rhythmic and not as a melodic bass. As the singers wander away from the pitch set by the instrument and pay little or no regard to it. From the style of singing it is suspected that the melody comes from the coastal regions further south from the Makua people of Mozambique - No confirmation of this suggestion could be obtained largely on account of the fact that the performers were second or third generation of mixed marriages on the island. Mkwaju dance song for men, with Marimba xylophone box rattle (-12.61-) and 2 friction sticks (-12.61-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Banana
- Kuruseni with Soga men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kuruseni with Soga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kamuli f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171447 , vital:42061 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR141-08
- Description: "We only play our Budongo for the big people. They are good instruments and we come from Bugabula. Oh, the Budongo music is enchanting!". Sets of these instruments are played by a number of young men together. For over 400 years this type of music has facinated Africans and possibly for far longer. Topical song, with 8 Budongo Likembe and 1 flat Nsaasi tin rattle (12.54-)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Kuruseni with Soga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kamuli f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171447 , vital:42061 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR141-08
- Description: "We only play our Budongo for the big people. They are good instruments and we come from Bugabula. Oh, the Budongo music is enchanting!". Sets of these instruments are played by a number of young men together. For over 400 years this type of music has facinated Africans and possibly for far longer. Topical song, with 8 Budongo Likembe and 1 flat Nsaasi tin rattle (12.54-)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Koko
- Authors: Chewa women , 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186398 , vital:44494 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-14
- Description: These Mfunde songs with their closely echoed phrases follow a well understood pattern with two women leading and the others singing after them. They are sung for rain when the dry season is nearly over
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Chewa women , 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186398 , vital:44494 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-14
- Description: These Mfunde songs with their closely echoed phrases follow a well understood pattern with two women leading and the others singing after them. They are sung for rain when the dry season is nearly over
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Mungabe
- Authors: Chewa women , 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186389 , vital:44493 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-13
- Description: "When the rains come, do not steal the beans." This type of closely echoed singing or incantation is typical of the Chewa. Eight women sang the song, five of them with infants at their breasts. Mfunde rain song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Chewa women , 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186389 , vital:44493 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-13
- Description: "When the rains come, do not steal the beans." This type of closely echoed singing or incantation is typical of the Chewa. Eight women sang the song, five of them with infants at their breasts. Mfunde rain song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Omukazi omugumba lubala
- Nasuti Social Club, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nasuti Social Club , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Iganga f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171428 , vital:42059 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR141-06
- Description: "The barren woman is not easy to keep as a wife as she only wastes your money." A very commonly expressed idea in Africa. Sets of these instruments are played by a number of young men together. For over 400 years this type of music has facinated Africans and possibly for far longer. Topical song, with 8 Budongo Likembe and 1 flat Nsaasi tin rattle (12.54-)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Nasuti Social Club , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Iganga f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171428 , vital:42059 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR141-06
- Description: "The barren woman is not easy to keep as a wife as she only wastes your money." A very commonly expressed idea in Africa. Sets of these instruments are played by a number of young men together. For over 400 years this type of music has facinated Africans and possibly for far longer. Topical song, with 8 Budongo Likembe and 1 flat Nsaasi tin rattle (12.54-)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Jomjom ndaliwa yindoda ngenxa yako (Jomjom, I have been divorced by my husband on your account)
- Nozikencele and Gcaleka girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nozikencele and Gcaleka girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Idutywa f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150960 , vital:39022 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-05
- Description: Jomjom is a familiar name for the local drink, millet beer. It is on account of her love of beer that she lost her husband, so the song goes, in time honoured fashion the world over. The song is an excellent round with each girl singing her own variations. Drinking song with Ikinki mouth resonated musical bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Nozikencele and Gcaleka girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Idutywa f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150960 , vital:39022 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-05
- Description: Jomjom is a familiar name for the local drink, millet beer. It is on account of her love of beer that she lost her husband, so the song goes, in time honoured fashion the world over. The song is an excellent round with each girl singing her own variations. Drinking song with Ikinki mouth resonated musical bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Hlophe
- Malebaka Moroke, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Malebaka Moroke , 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/10962/161890 , vital:40687 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-10
- Description: "Death is painful! My husband has remained in Egypt. He is sitting in the water. He is eaten by the crabs. I did not know that that would be his fate. Pako, my child, is weeping." Her husband has gone North to the war (1939-1945). A divining song with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Malebaka Moroke , 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/10962/161890 , vital:40687 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-10
- Description: "Death is painful! My husband has remained in Egypt. He is sitting in the water. He is eaten by the crabs. I did not know that that would be his fate. Pako, my child, is weeping." Her husband has gone North to the war (1939-1945). A divining song with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Eruko
- Baiyani Medureki with Arusha men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Baiyani Medureki with Arusha men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Maasai (African people) , Songs, Maasai , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Arusha f-tz
- Language: Masai
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174054 , vital:42435 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR154-01
- Description: "Sing the chorus, you young men and women. For we are the brave of the country." While the girls sing the words of the chorus, the men sing the tyoical humming sounds in unision. A delightfully intricate song and not at all easy to follow on the first hearing. Osingolio Londoiyo dance song for menand women.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Baiyani Medureki with Arusha men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Maasai (African people) , Songs, Maasai , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Arusha f-tz
- Language: Masai
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174054 , vital:42435 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR154-01
- Description: "Sing the chorus, you young men and women. For we are the brave of the country." While the girls sing the words of the chorus, the men sing the tyoical humming sounds in unision. A delightfully intricate song and not at all easy to follow on the first hearing. Osingolio Londoiyo dance song for menand women.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Wangereza safi
- Nyamugumi Mihabo Nyamwezi men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nyamugumi Mihabo Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173282 , vital:42353 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-05
- Description: 'The English are a straight forward, good and polite people. They are as good as drinking water and are not hasty, this is a good dance for boys, come and join us." The singers are all Nyamwezi who have come down to the East coast from the interior near Tabora and have now settled permanently at the coast in or around Dar-es-Salaam. These Nyamwezi singers of Dar-es-Salaam have an attractive way of singing their songs repeating each stanza after the soloist. This style may well have been copied from the Arabs or Swahili. Tatu Binti Ali is the young wife of Idi Selemani the organiser of the group. Hiyari ya moyo dance song for men and women..
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Nyamugumi Mihabo Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173282 , vital:42353 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-05
- Description: 'The English are a straight forward, good and polite people. They are as good as drinking water and are not hasty, this is a good dance for boys, come and join us." The singers are all Nyamwezi who have come down to the East coast from the interior near Tabora and have now settled permanently at the coast in or around Dar-es-Salaam. These Nyamwezi singers of Dar-es-Salaam have an attractive way of singing their songs repeating each stanza after the soloist. This style may well have been copied from the Arabs or Swahili. Tatu Binti Ali is the young wife of Idi Selemani the organiser of the group. Hiyari ya moyo dance song for men and women..
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Bi-i-i! a Bikoko cigamba (Dirt! Bikoko, rags!)
- Five elderly Chewa women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Five elderly 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 Dedza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160605 , vital:40482 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-06
- Description: A husband is scolding his wife in public. She replies that he should not scold her in public but at the house because he is in rags himself and she is not like him - he who wears short trousers all in tatters and patches. "Bi-i-i! A Bikoko, rags. Tatters, tatters, tatters! Don't you scold me in front of other people, I am not the same as you because you are all ragged and wear short trousers. Konsolo dance song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Five elderly 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 Dedza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160605 , vital:40482 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-06
- Description: A husband is scolding his wife in public. She replies that he should not scold her in public but at the house because he is in rags himself and she is not like him - he who wears short trousers all in tatters and patches. "Bi-i-i! A Bikoko, rags. Tatters, tatters, tatters! Don't you scold me in front of other people, I am not the same as you because you are all ragged and wear short trousers. Konsolo dance song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Imbube Ingonyama (You are the lion)
- Five girls from the Queen mother's village, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Five girls from the Queen mother's village , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152240 , vital:39237 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-08
- Description: The song goes on:- "You are growing up to eat man and kill people." The song is sung by the brides' party when the king's daughter is going to be married. The song is addressed to the bridegroom. Lamkhwanse Tsemba was the leader. The prefix "la" indicates she is married. Four of these girls were married and wore their hair in the "Swati dome", the other had her hair painted and combed to form a circular cap. Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Five girls from the Queen mother's village , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152240 , vital:39237 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-08
- Description: The song goes on:- "You are growing up to eat man and kill people." The song is sung by the brides' party when the king's daughter is going to be married. The song is addressed to the bridegroom. Lamkhwanse Tsemba was the leader. The prefix "la" indicates she is married. Four of these girls were married and wore their hair in the "Swati dome", the other had her hair painted and combed to form a circular cap. Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kongoi lakok a Kenya
- Paolo Arap Maiyo with Nandi men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Paolo Arap Maiyo with Nandi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Mijikenda (African people) , Nandi (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapsabet f-ke
- Language: Nandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176766 , vital:42750 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR163-13
- Description: This simple but attractive dance song repeats the few words "Thank you, the boys of Kenya." Moran dance song for men, with Kipkuruguroik leg bells.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Paolo Arap Maiyo with Nandi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Mijikenda (African people) , Nandi (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapsabet f-ke
- Language: Nandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176766 , vital:42750 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR163-13
- Description: This simple but attractive dance song repeats the few words "Thank you, the boys of Kenya." Moran dance song for men, with Kipkuruguroik leg bells.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950