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Nkurira nyama (I cry for meat)

- J. M. C. Chimpandando, Hugh Tracey

Munkwele

- Group of 7 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Tuibale bonse nwe nseba (Let's flock together like nseba birds)

- Edward Shoni and group of 6 Aushi men, Hugh Tracey

Ki mangi ya uawize mali (Who stole the money?)

- Group of Lozi men, Hugh Tracey

Kwa Kazembe okutomboka kana twana (In our country when we are drunk we start dancing)

- Three young Luunda men, Hugh Tracey

Ematambo waifwe bantu (The bones of the people)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140067 , vital:37829
  • Description: "When you go on duty, someone else comes and makes love to your wife-that means a fine of much money. A the beer hall you go to drink eleven quarts of wine and then afterwards, go to make love to someone else's wife. And then-caught-you have to pay, and be despised by your own son and daughter. Morality song with guitar and bottle.
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Yaku Kasama munenu wamukake Nshimbi (At Kasama they put the handcuffs on me)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 3 friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 3 friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Language: Ruund
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139945 , vital:37816
  • Description: "I was handcuffed at Kasama by the police, sat down and was taken to the Boma, saying; "I did nothing wrong." But it appears that when he was charged, he said he was guilty and blamed his uncle's wife. She came to give evidence on his behalf but she did not get him off. So he said: "You are the one who must get me off." Bust she did not do so." "You are my relative, you must send me home." In this outburst one can see the childlike faith in the blood relationships eben to the point of working miracles.
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Mukashi wamunobe (Do not play about with your friend's wife)

- William Mapulanga and Friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: William Mapulanga and Friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Language: Ruund
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139915 , vital:37812
  • Description: The cross rhythm of this song is typical, while the melodic formula of the lyric is one which has come up to N. Rhodesia from the south where it originated eight years ago in a song called "Vura matambo." from the Muzezuru tribe in S. Rhodesia. This demonstrates the persistence of the oral folk evolution of songs, now accelerated and more widely distributed by means of phonograhic recording. In the ordinary course of events, this tune would never have moved so far from its original home some 600 and 700 miles away. Morality song with guitar and bottle.
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Tandabala (Name of a man)

- Group of Lozi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Lozi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Language: Lozi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139756 , vital:37779
  • Description: This song, they said, is sung normally by women at the end of a girl's initiation period - a time when songs mentioning taboo subjects are not frequently found in African societies. It appears that the use of a guitar in a song of this nature is unusual. Girl's initiation song with guitar, and bottle struck by a nail.
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Namakawu-wo misali kunyala Liwali (Namakwawu was married to 2 husbands)

- Group of 12 Lozi men and women, Hugh Tracey

Mwaiseni mwe balendo (Welcome visitors)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 3 friends, Hugh Tracey

Woho naizhi

- Group of old Hlubi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of old Hlubi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Tembu (African people) , Field recordings , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139678 , vital:37767
  • Description: Some very spirited solo performances were put up by individuals who dashed out of a line to take up a new song, each replacing the last man. The first song indicated that the hero of the song had a case to bring. The second, that he should be caught. The third one that he should be held, and so on. Each of the many singers and dancers liked to come out into the ring, shout his individual cries and introduce his own song. The occassional interpolation of a horn was made by blowing through an pld rubber bulb type motor-cycle horn. Mgibo pre-initiation dance with sticks.
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Libela (We are going to dance)

- R. Chimengwa and 5 Kaonde men, Hugh Tracey

Intlnganiso ya magqiha ye Isangoma (Proceddings at Herbalist's meeting)

- Led by Masamaigazi and Nowinile, Hugh Tracey

Woho naizhi

- Group of old Hlubi men, Hugh Tracey

Mutshwa kusaeuhamhish Musoka wa (The Judge, Musoka, is going)

- Group of 9 Lunda men, Hugh Tracey

Pano pano tabikana mutima (This village is full of jealousy)

- Smart Chigwamba and group of 5 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Nyambilichina twali akwawu ku Muwewu (Nyambilichi is taking other girls to Muwewu) (

- Group of 14 Lunda men and 4 women, Hugh Tracey

We ngoma mashiana migoti nokwinta (The dance I have danced throughout the mines)

- C. Yamba, J. Kabalale and G. Lupala, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: C. Yamba, J. Kabalale and G. Lupala , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140132 , vital:37838
  • Description: "The song we are going to sing you is so interesting that you will even leave your supper to come and listen to us even the police with their wives and children have left their duties just to come and hear. The Lamba people are making fun of us and saying we Aushi/Lumbo have no copper mine. But Lake Bengwelu is our mine because wheras you Lamba, you get all your wealth from the mines, we get it from our fish. In place of the jack hammers we have a net. The miners use a rock drilling machine underground, and we use a Mukwano net." Kalela dance song.
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Kanakazi Kayaya mbebeweta pamulomo (The unfaithful wife talks too much)

- Smart Chigwamba and group of 5 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

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