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"Ba Machi Bwanga." (Girl's name)

- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia)
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134331 , vital:37123
  • Description: The singer calls his girl Machi Bwanga and the other women, including the mother of Changwe, to come and help him to sing.
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"Baberita babakana babasangule apumbu." (Babarita has been rejected and they have made a fool of her)

- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia)
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134340 , vital:37124
  • Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele x 8, fan shaped mbira, with external resonator and mirliton.
  • Full Text: false

"Bwalwa bwa chiwowo." (Beer not drunk in peace.)

- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia)
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134313 , vital:37120
  • Description: "This beer is for the people, the Kaonde, the Lamba and the Nsenga." The people who use magic are worrying me at my house. I must go to the diviner to find out who it is. Why are you standing there at the door? Come in and do not stay outside."
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"Cilelensuma." (The sun set)

- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia)
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134322 , vital:37121
  • Description: Self-delectative song with Kankowele x 8, fan shaped mbira, with external resonator and piece of glass tapped with metal.
  • Full Text: false

"Ilanga lacona." (The sun set)

- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia)
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134349 , vital:37125
  • Description: The song is taken from the old well-known tune from S. Rhodesia ("Ilanga lashona."), which first become popular as a guitar song in Bulawayo. The cowboy, he sings, puts on a large hat as a sign of strenght.
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"Kulilandile." (Crying)

- M. Kunda (Composer), Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: M. Kunda (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia)
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134286 , vital:37115
  • Description: "Wana Mtale, I am crying for my wife whom I have lost. She has gone away and not returned."
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"Lefatse le tletse meea e mebe." (Take this letter home.)

- Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

"Lefatse le tletse meea e mebe." (The country is full of evil spirits)

- Two diviners (Izangoma) and a group of pupils (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

"Litsebe nka lengolo y ec hae." (Take this letter home)

- Group of Sotho men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

"Luwalo-o-iuwale." (Start, o start the song)

- Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia)
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134304 , vital:37118
  • Description: "What are we doing? The White men have come. Their tents are over there beyond the Chiwombo river." This was first sung long ago, they say, when the Whites first came to their country about 1900, or a little earlier.
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"Nandi ubeya Kumikoti." (I too am a recruit for the copper belt"

- Group of 6 Aushi men and Edward Shoni., Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 6 Aushi men and Edward Shoni. , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia)
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134367 , vital:37134
  • Description: The song says: "I lived for a long time in the country and then decided to come and work on the copper belt. And I was terribly frightened and afraid of everything to bein with." Song to celebrate the depature of a boy to the copper belt.
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"Nina Namusonda Sanguweji." (The girl Namusonda Sanguweji)

- M. Kunda (Composer), Hugh Tracey

(A)Kankukhu (The Chicken) (B) Kaposi Kapila (One, two) (C) Thu njeketu (I have walked with my sister)

- Young Chewa girls and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young Chewa girls and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153311 , vital:39434
  • Description: These are traditional children's verses whose meaning is obsecure as, it is believed, they are composite collections of odd lines. But the words sound well and so have survied. a) "The small chicken is angry. You have refused me everything. You have made me cross. It is enough to make me leave you" says the small chicken. b) A counting jingle. c) "I have walked with my sister. I have forgotten my bow and arrows. Go fetch them for me. Why have I given them to someone else (The sister replies) "Shall I brew you some beer? (Reply) "I don't drink beer." Children's verses.
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00:03:29

- Venancio Mbande and his Chopi Timbila xylophone orchestra players of Wildebeesfontein, Tracey, Andrew T N

18 heures

- Ma Sane, Do Sagna, Yade (vocals), Toto (guitar), Race, Magx Thiam (keyboards), Galass, Mbaye Joola (percussion), Beuz (drums), Studio 2000

2nd March 1965

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

A Baiwelu (The story of the foolish young man 'Baiwelu')

- Four Chewa lads, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Four Chewa lads , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153864 , vital:39531
  • Description: There was once a man who wanted to get married and he found two sisters. He asked the elder on to marry him and she agreed. But when he came back the next day the elder sister was not at home and he asked the younger sister to marry him instead. She said, "What about my elder sister, and what would we do with her?" The elder sister heard about the proposal to the younger sister, she cooked food, put poison in it and gave it to the young man so he died. When they were taking his body to the grave they sang this song: "Baiwelu, you were killed by Berita (the name of the elder sister). But when they sang this song the dead Bauwelu heard it and became alive again." Story with song "Ntano" with clapping.
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A Christmas card

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

A dance song

- Nyangana Mission Choir, Dikuwa, Edmund, Tracey, Andrew T N

A dream come true

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

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