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Zzaaya

- Boys if St. Peter's school, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Boys if St. Peter's school , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
  • Language: Ganda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170529 , vital:41932 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-15
  • Description: The song describes how a man is taken to hospital and takes first this and then that medicine until eventually he dies. Sung in a manner traditional to the Ganda. The drumming and clapping are interesting example of typical crossed rhythm. Humorous song with snall, laced, conical drum and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Zwothe Zwothe

- Group of Church Singers, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Zukisan' iNkosi

- St Bede's Theological College Choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Ziphin' iinkomo, maGwalandini

- Marimba Group, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Zionist Chorus

- Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Zionist Chorus

- Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Zionist Chorus

- Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Zionist Chorus

- Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Zionist Chorus

- Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Zincinci impundu zomkakho

- Dywili, Nofinishi, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Zincinci impundu zomkakho

- Dywili, Nofinishi, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Zimbige II

- Tawagaza Sibanda, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tawagaza Sibanda , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154503 , vital:39740 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-02
  • Description: The player was playing with the thumb of the left hand, the thumb and first finger of the right hand. The Njari is the traditional instrument of the district having originated from the Buhera district further north over two centuries ago, when it began to displace an older variety called the Mbira-dza-Midgimu. This is an instrumental recording only. Self delecatative song with Njari (Mbira).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Zimbige 1

- Tawagaza Sibanda, Hugh Tracey

Zilo

- Mozua Manzali, Chief Gatanga, Mongonika and Zande men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mozua Manzali, Chief Gatanga, Mongonika and Zande men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
  • Language: Zande
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167306 , vital:41466 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0122-02
  • Description: The old singer is a great favourite in the district, the local Zande enjoying his songs of historical flavour. "Zilo went to the Chief to plead forgiveness for his son. The Chief forgave him on condition that he troubled the people no more and became the Chief's servant." The membrane of the harp is made of the ear of an elephant, laced onto the instrument. The Zande have a wild military past and ruled a large tract of country along both sides of the Congo-Sudan border. Topical song with vertical, angular, kundi harp, 5 strings and hand clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Zikulindeli iingxaka

- Nonogcinile, Nomillion and group, Tracey, Andrew T N

Zikulindeli iingxaka

- Nonogcinile, Nomillion and group, Tracey, Andrew T N

Zhikita (The girdle)

- Group of 12 Chokwe men and 8 women, Hugh Tracey

Zawula mutemba

- Large group of 14 Lwena men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Large group of 14 Lwena men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luvale (African people) , Folk music , Angola , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Africa Angola Bulusako f-ao
  • Language: Luvale/Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137221 , vital:37499 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR036-10
  • Description: The Chisanzhi was rested on a large oil drum. The tongues were wax-weighted. Only 3 were used of the five, and they provided a kind of rhythmic ground. This bamboo-tongued mbira cannot be said to be a musical but rather a rhythmic instrument. Wood-carrying song with 1 chisanzhi, bamboo-tongued, board, 2 struck sticks, bottle and small bell.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Zanse na Tengani afuna mapass (Everything at Tengani needs a pass)

- George Zongoloti and small girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: George Zongoloti and small girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:39905 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-02
  • Description: The song is sung partly in Sena and partly in Mangyanja. The drummer sitting on the ground with his drum on his thighs moves the drum on and off his chest by raising and lowering the tips of his feet with heels on the ground. This has the necessary tonal effect when moving the drum half an inch or so only. The singer, George Zongoloti is singing about his troubles. If he wants to go to Southern Rhodesia he has to come Chief Tingami for a pass. If he wants to fish, another pass. Even to make a canoe, he needs a pass. Now he is going back to Portuguese territory over the border because there you can do what you like without a single pass, just what you like! Topical song with Nthikwi drum.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1958

Zangeninkomo

- Group of 8 young Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 8 young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153055 , vital:39377 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-14
  • Description: The singers, who were sitting on the ground, all bent their heads on their folded arms while singing this song. It is the first opening movement of this dance before actully dancing. The dance itself is a variation of the Ndlamu stamping dance found all through Zululand and as far south as Thabankulu in the Transkei. "Zangeni nkomo zethu mabedlana zangene khaya wozangena" Youn men's dance. Isibacha.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1958
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