I Qhude lo kusa
- Members of the Church of Nazareth (Performers), I. Shembe (Composer), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Members of the Church of Nazareth (Performers) , I. Shembe (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Music--South Africa , Hymns, Zulu , Christian dance , Africa South Africa Rec. Nhlangakazi Hill f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132813 , vital:36890 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR009-01
- Description: Three Zulu hymns for christian dancing, unaccompained
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
- Authors: Members of the Church of Nazareth (Performers) , I. Shembe (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Music--South Africa , Hymns, Zulu , Christian dance , Africa South Africa Rec. Nhlangakazi Hill f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132813 , vital:36890 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR009-01
- Description: Three Zulu hymns for christian dancing, unaccompained
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Ulushimi lwa mukashana ne nsupa ya mfumu (The story of the girl and the chief's calabash)
- Agnes Bwenpe and group of small girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Agnes Bwenpe and group of small girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Bancroft Mine f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151806 , vital:39173 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-16
- Description: There was once a Chief who had a favourite wife to whom he gave a calabash. Now this Chief disappeared. One day she with the calabash, she found herself sailing down the river in it, and as she sang: "Ulushimi lwa mukashana ne nsupa ya mfunu." She sailed amongst the fish, some of which wanted to eat her. But she sang to them and they let her go. Afterwards she fell amongst crocodiles. But they too let her go when she sang to them and eventually she found herself in a village and gave it to the chief and put her in a hut where she was badly bitten by insects. However she did not kill any of them, as she was a kind and gentle woman. Then the chief sent word that she must come and undergo a test. Which was to pick out her own calabash from amongst many others. As she went one of the insects said to her: "Choose that calabash you see a fly settle on." So, when she swa all the calabashes spread out before her, she waited for a fly to settle on one. It settled on the smallest and she picked it up and said: "This is mine." Whereon the chief came out of his hut and to her amazement it was her own husband who said: "Now I know this is my own wife, because she recogonizes the calabash I once gave her." Isimi story with song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Agnes Bwenpe and group of small girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Bancroft Mine f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151806 , vital:39173 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-16
- Description: There was once a Chief who had a favourite wife to whom he gave a calabash. Now this Chief disappeared. One day she with the calabash, she found herself sailing down the river in it, and as she sang: "Ulushimi lwa mukashana ne nsupa ya mfunu." She sailed amongst the fish, some of which wanted to eat her. But she sang to them and they let her go. Afterwards she fell amongst crocodiles. But they too let her go when she sang to them and eventually she found herself in a village and gave it to the chief and put her in a hut where she was badly bitten by insects. However she did not kill any of them, as she was a kind and gentle woman. Then the chief sent word that she must come and undergo a test. Which was to pick out her own calabash from amongst many others. As she went one of the insects said to her: "Choose that calabash you see a fly settle on." So, when she swa all the calabashes spread out before her, she waited for a fly to settle on one. It settled on the smallest and she picked it up and said: "This is mine." Whereon the chief came out of his hut and to her amazement it was her own husband who said: "Now I know this is my own wife, because she recogonizes the calabash I once gave her." Isimi story with song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Thano ya Timba (The story of Timba 'small bird')
- Authors: Edwin Tengani , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157939 , vital:40131 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-05
- Description: "Once there was a small bird called Timba. Timba made his living on a certain tree called Nkankande. He put a notice on the tree because he knew that the tree was beside the main path which all the animals took to drink water at the river. The notice said "Everyone who passes must look out because mu hut is here, anyone who does not heed my notice will die." After a while the elephants passed by and knocked down Timba's nest because the Nkankande tree is the natural food of elephants. At the time Timba was away looking after his cotton field. When he got back his house had gone. From the foot prints all around he knew it was the elephants and he said "I will see them on their way back". When the elephants came along Timba said, "which of you broke down my house?" "He had better confess at once or one of you will die, I am sure." Before the elephants arrived home one of them was already unhappy and his friend asked him what was the matter. "I am unhappy about what Timba said to us." He replied, "well if you are the one who spoiled Timba's nest we had better go back and tell him." But he refused and later that day he lay down and died. Messages were sent far and wide that an elephant had died and all the animals came to attend his funeral. Timba knew that the elephant had died on account of his notice, so when he came to the funeral Timba said, "I warned you about my tree, so let this be a warning to everyone that it is better to obey than to disobey because in this way a young man can make bad things right again." Story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Edwin Tengani , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157939 , vital:40131 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-05
- Description: "Once there was a small bird called Timba. Timba made his living on a certain tree called Nkankande. He put a notice on the tree because he knew that the tree was beside the main path which all the animals took to drink water at the river. The notice said "Everyone who passes must look out because mu hut is here, anyone who does not heed my notice will die." After a while the elephants passed by and knocked down Timba's nest because the Nkankande tree is the natural food of elephants. At the time Timba was away looking after his cotton field. When he got back his house had gone. From the foot prints all around he knew it was the elephants and he said "I will see them on their way back". When the elephants came along Timba said, "which of you broke down my house?" "He had better confess at once or one of you will die, I am sure." Before the elephants arrived home one of them was already unhappy and his friend asked him what was the matter. "I am unhappy about what Timba said to us." He replied, "well if you are the one who spoiled Timba's nest we had better go back and tell him." But he refused and later that day he lay down and died. Messages were sent far and wide that an elephant had died and all the animals came to attend his funeral. Timba knew that the elephant had died on account of his notice, so when he came to the funeral Timba said, "I warned you about my tree, so let this be a warning to everyone that it is better to obey than to disobey because in this way a young man can make bad things right again." Story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Mamarutla
- Dingalo and group of young boys and girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Dingalo and group of young boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165678 , vital:41270 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-06
- Description: This song os sung with the accompanying dance, in order to ask the Chief's pernission to go to the initiation school. It seems the young would-be initiates must go to the Chief's house and dance and sing the whole night through. The leader of this group was the Chief's cousin. The boys dance, whilst the girls stand in a row, singing and clapping. The boys all carried long thin wands in their hands and were wearing short loin cloths and leg rattles made of the nests of a variety of wasp which resemble the cacoons of the bag-worm, though somewhat larger. The girls wore short skirts. Both boys and girls were between 15 and 16 years of age. Pre-initiation dance song with leg rattles - "Mathlao".
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Dingalo and group of young boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165678 , vital:41270 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-06
- Description: This song os sung with the accompanying dance, in order to ask the Chief's pernission to go to the initiation school. It seems the young would-be initiates must go to the Chief's house and dance and sing the whole night through. The leader of this group was the Chief's cousin. The boys dance, whilst the girls stand in a row, singing and clapping. The boys all carried long thin wands in their hands and were wearing short loin cloths and leg rattles made of the nests of a variety of wasp which resemble the cacoons of the bag-worm, though somewhat larger. The girls wore short skirts. Both boys and girls were between 15 and 16 years of age. Pre-initiation dance song with leg rattles - "Mathlao".
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
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