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Timba (Timba, the Wren)

- 'Limited' Mfundo Phiri, Hugh Tracey

Tabiya (A woman's name)

- 'Limited' Mfundo Phiri, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 'Limited' Mfundo Phiri , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Namira, Chikwawa f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155939 , vital:39933 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-14
  • Description: "Tibiya wanted to give me syphilis. Moses, you, I am sure a swallow has passed by." The singer blames the woman Tabiya for his misfortune and warns his friend Moses of following his example. "A bird has passed this way" being a euphemism clearly understood by the men of the district. Self delectative song with board zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nyele/Horns

- 17 Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 17 Tonga men , 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/10962/138490 , vital:37642 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-14
  • Description: An experimental recording of the Nyele horns, to demonstrate their tuning, the order of their appearance and general scheme of melody. They are commonly played with drums and not by themselves alone, and are employed upon various ceremonial occasions such as funerals and large gatherings. They vary in size from about 5" to 18" long and are taken from a variety of antelope. Names of Nyele pipes (from smallest to largest) 1. Kampeko. 2. Simulya sikiri. 3. Senseku. 4. Jungainga. 5. Pindakati. 6. Muwere. 7. Siamupa. 8. Mpako. 9. Fulwa. 10. Saina. 11. Mulundu chigabana. 12. Gapalikwa. 13. Fumbira momba. 14. Tiabutiabu. 15. Tandamubbgwa. 16. Tandawanyoko. 17. Tukirauso. Horn ensemble with set of 17 Nyele antelope end-blown horns.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Indakurira shua (I cry for my friend (duet))

- 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls , 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/10962/138198 , vital:37608 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-07
  • Description: The grain being pounded was "munga", one of the millets which had first to be sieved in a basket, in order to get rid of the husks. It was poured into the mortar and water was added in order to prevent the powdery meal from flying up. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ndime mukabaryibaryi basankwa (All the young men like me)

- 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls , 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/10962/138189 , vital:37605 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-06
  • Description: The grain being pounded was "munga", one of the millets which had first to be sieved in a basket, in order to get rid of the husks. It was poured into the mortar and water was added in order to prevent the powdery meal from flying up. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Zumina unditole ulibama (If toy don't love me, send me back to my mother)

- 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls, Hugh Tracey

Sheme yasenzana wa mai-we

- 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls, Hugh Tracey

Indilimbo y' Ingeruzabahizi (The song of the 'Ingeruzabahizi)

- 3 Hutu men and Bijyiobenda Simeon, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 3 Hutu men and Bijyiobenda Simeon , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: World music , Anthropology , Performing arts , Cultural anthropology , Drum--Performance , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136902 , vital:37439 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR034-12
  • Description: The song refers to the recruiting of the men of Ruanda-Urundi for work on the cooper mines of the Katanga Province in the south of the Congo Belge. The Union Miniere asked the Mwami of Ruanda for strong men for this work and when they arrived at the airfield they asked their leader which way they would travel. "It was not by land nor by water, he replied, but by air they would go." So they were taken from Usumbura to Elisabethville by air. Topical song
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Impunguza matwi (Open your ears)

- 3 Hutu men and Bijyiobenda Simeon, Hugh Tracey

Kalulu 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/10962/151828 , vital:39177 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-02
  • Description: The women's dance was slow and graceful, and consisted of advancing and retiring in pairs, raising and lowering their large horse-tail fly-whisks. "Kabulu" in Nyakyusa is derived, they say, from the word meaning to "ululate". During the dance they call out "we are proud of Tukuyu, we are proud we have come." All the drums were locally made on the mine, from oil drums. They were double-headed and laced. Mampenenga and Kalulu dance with 1 conical drum, laced, 2 cylindrical laced drums with wooden beaters.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

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

Ngwasi (Fish eagle)

- 3 Yao women, Hugh Tracey

Acikanja (A name)

- 3 Yao women, Hugh Tracey

A sante mwe

- 4 Tumbuka boys, Hugh Tracey

Fasonti (Name of a man)

- 5 young Xhosa men and women, Hugh Tracey

Igada (A clod of earth)

- 5 young Xhosa men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 5 young Xhosa men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150761 , vital:39003 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-03
  • Description: This was sung by the same group of young Xhosa men and women as the first 2 songs. The dancing was static, done by the mwn only, who used a single stamping step, but very stlised elegant gestures of arms and hands. They were holding decorated sticks. One man held up the two end corners of his blanket-skirt. His forearms were solidly encased in brass wire bracelets from wrist to elbow. Intlombe dances for young people with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Dlalani (Name of a man)

- 5 young Xhosa men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 5 young Xhosa men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150741 , vital:39001 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR061-01
  • Description: The song is in praise of a man who has many lovers. This song and the following one were sung by a group of very beautifully dressed young people, the men dancers elegantly blanketed and beaded, the girls wearing pale ochre skirts with many rows of indigo blue braid and their headcloths of indingo blie wool were folded about their heads to form a tall tubular headdress rather like that of Queen Nefertiti. Before the recording started, but whilst the singers were "warming up" there was rather a curious little ceremony which forms part of the dance. One of the girls went around removing the men dancers's headcloths revealing their head bead ornaments. She put their headcloths on her own head, then returned to the line of girls and gave each girl her own young mans' headcloth, which was then tied round the girl's head. A stick specially decorated for dancing is called "Libunguza." Intolombe dance for young people with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Huwa lero (Huwa-today)

- 7 small boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 7 small boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kachere, Dedza, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153551 , vital:39477 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-03
  • Description: Herd boys are one of Africa's sources of original songs. The life of thee youngsters is full of the intimate knowledge of creatures and their ways. The discomforts of nature and the constant search for food or sweet things. A herd boy's education is second to none at that tender age and the pleasures are never forgotten. They use a well known proverb concerning their food, referring to their work for other people's cattle. "The one who cooks does not eat the food." "Huwa, somebody's child is your child, so do not be jealous of him." Herd boy song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Angelo

- 7 small boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 7 small boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kachere, Dedza, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153560 , vital:39478 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-04
  • Description: Herd boys are one of Africa's sources of original songs. The life of thee youngsters is full of the intimate knowledge of creatures and their ways. The discomforts of nature and the constant search for food or sweet things. A herd boy's education is second to none at that tender age and the pleasures are never forgotten. They use a well known proverb concerning their food, referring to their work for other people's cattle. "The one who cooks does not eat the food." "Oh, Angelo, just smell he relish!" (A vivid picture of small boys with mouths watering). Herd boy song. The setting of this song is familiar to most African villages. Small boys are herding their goats, whistling and calling to them while they sing
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Imilishyo y'ingoma - Umusambi (Rhythms of drums)

- 8 Hutu men and Bijyiobenda Simeon, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 8 Hutu men and Bijyiobenda Simeon , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: World music , Anthropology , Performing arts , Cultural anthropology , Drum--Performance , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136870 , vital:37437 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR034-10
  • Description: This group of Hutu drummers who call themselves the "Ingeruzabahizi", "The Terrifiers", were recorded by us in 1952 and their tattoos were published in the Music of Africa Series on LP records No. 1120 "Drums of Africa." The present recording shows an improvement in technique since that day, under the same leader Bijiyobyenda Simeon. Eleven drum rhythms with 2 conical drums, 5 cylindrical drums, laced, closed, with wooden beaters , 1 treble drum, cylindrical, laced, wooden beaters.
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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