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Ai abei eong

- Yowana, with his friend Emugat, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ako Maraba

- Wesonga, Abimereki, not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ali wanyola manwa

- Musolwa and Gishu men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Musolwa and Gishu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
  • Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169435 , vital:41750 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-04
  • Description: This song is about a greedy man who eats prodigous amounts of cassava porridge. Wherever he went he always asked for more cassava. The bowl is a wooden platter commonly used for serving food, turned upside down ad beaten with two sticks.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Ali Wanyola Mauwa

- Musolwa, Gishu men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Bero Arigina

- Obothi, Zeruboberi, Dhola men, Obothi, Zerubobeni, Tracey, Hugh

Busumbu

- Isaka Kitutu, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Isaka Kitutu , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
  • Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169421 , vital:41748 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-02
  • Description: The Busumbu phosphate mines employ many Europeans, Indians and Africans. But what phosphate is used for is a bit of a mystery to the native miners. It is of course, a most important fertiliser. What it will be used for , they sing, will be known. In the meanwhile labourers are many, Europeans, Indians and Africans. The tapping of the players heel on the ground can be heard throughout this recording. Usually the players of these lyres wear an anklet of metal iron bells on that leg. The Gisu cannot be said to be the best exponents of the lyre but they belong to the Nilotic tradition of playing. Topical song with seven string Litungu lyre and leg bells.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Busumbu Balulima

- Kitutu, Isaka, not specified, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Kitutu, Isaka , not specified , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950-09-05
  • Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
  • Language: Gishu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/229526 , vital:49684 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2272 , XYZ5437
  • Description: Topical song with Litungu lyre and leg bells
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950-09-05

Bwana Leja

- Thomas Mulungo, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Thomas Mulungo , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
  • Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169412 , vital:41747 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-01
  • Description: The player was seated holding the lyre with the strings extending towards the right and played his leg bells by beating his heel on the ground. Bawana Leja (Letcher or Fletcher) was said to be a Government appointed valuator of cattle which were commandered during the war (1939-45) to feed the troops stationed in Kenya and Uganda. The woman complains that her only cow was taken by him and that she had no milk to give her new born child. Topical song with seven string Litungu lyre and leg bells.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Bwana Leja

- Mulungo, Thomas, not specified, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Mulungo, Thomas , not specified , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950-09-04
  • Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
  • Language: Gishu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/229558 , vital:49687 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2277 , XYZ5423b
  • Description: Topical song with Litungu lyre and Mungiri bells
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950-09-04

Ikwara Watindi Tindibala

- Namawa, Bulasiyo, not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ikwara watindi tindibala

- Bulasiyo Namawa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Bulasiyo Namawa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
  • Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169448 , vital:41751 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-05
  • Description: This song recalls the days when the Gishu were first subdued by the English during the early occupation of Uganda. Topical song with Lidungu seven string lyre.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Kammaraba

- Musolwa and Gishu men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Musolwa and Gishu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
  • Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169430 , vital:41749 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-03
  • Description: This song complains about the modern girl who will not stay at home but uses cosmetics and roams around the country doing no work. The bowl is a wooden platter commonly used for serving food, turned upside down ad beaten with two sticks.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Kammaraba

- Musolwa, Gishu men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Khuya uwa Naluwa

- Mulungo, Thomas, not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Lukhano lunarula

- Wamimbi Magombe and Gishu men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Wamimbi Magombe and Gishu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
  • Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169511 , vital:41758 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-12
  • Description: Boys who are ready for initiation are warned in this song of the pain they muct experience and exhorted to be brave. Imbalu circumcision dance with Mungiri leg bells, European whistle and side blown horn, open.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Lukhano Lunarula

- Magombe, Wabimbi, Gishu men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Luwanzo rhythm

- Gishu men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Gishu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
  • Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169502 , vital:41757 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-11
  • Description: It has been noticed that while the flying ants are leaving a nest the soilder ants beat their heads on the ground; a sharp noise will also make them do this. Perhaps the explanation may be found in this direction. Two split holes, called Luwanzo, are taken to an ant hill in the late afternoon during rainy weather and balanced carefully on small bunches of banana fibre. The players then beat out rhythms such as this "To the Queen Ant" so that she will send out her flying ants for the men to catch and eat. They say it works wonderfully. Percussion rhythm, using two Luwanzo poles.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Matoke adiya

- Obothi, Zeruboberi, Dhola men, Obothi, Zerubobeni, Tracey, Hugh

Matoke adiya

- Obothi, Zeruboberi, Dhola men, Obothi, Zerubobeni, Tracey, Hugh

Mayi Muro Sali Mayi

- Namawa, Bulasiyo, not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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