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Negbada

- Mangbele men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mangbele men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Kusu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
  • Language: Mangbetu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168982 , vital:41667 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0128-13
  • Description: In the hilly country of North Eastern Congo and in the great tropical forest basin of the Ituri, the Tipoyi or Sedan chair is still the only means of passenger transport away from the main roads. Not only officials but most native chiefs and notables are carried in this manner by four or more bearers, who after the fashion of all Africans use special occupational songs for this kind of work. Tipoyi carriers song, with two wooden pod shaped slit drums and two cylindrical slit drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Icamagu livumile

- Hogsback festival participants, Ntsikana, Dargie, Dave

Yizani ngovuyo

- Lumko Church Congregation, Group composition, Dargie, Dave

Morena he eena

- Group at St Augustine's Seminary Workshop, Khiba, Alexander, Dargie, Dave

Curative song

- Mbuti men, Hugh Tracey

Thanda Nkhulunkhulu ne inhliziyo yakho yonke = Love the Lord with all your heart

- Siswati choral group, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Ng’wadila ng’wiza wani baba rumi

- Luchenje Nyanda with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Luchenje Nyanda with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwanza f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi , Sukuma
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173614 , vital:42389 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR152-01
  • Description: "How do you do chief, we greet you by playing bells. Before we go do our dance we need charms to help us." A song sung before dancing. Dancing among the Sukuma is often a matter of competition between teams, the size of the audience attracted to watch each team indicating their relative popularity. Charms are frequently used to give them luck and skill, they say, in dancing. The melody of this song is memorable and beautifully balanced, it reminds one of the old English song. "One man went to mow, went to mow a meadow." Wigasha dance song for men.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Pinda Zimshaya (Hit him again)

- Tinote Dlamini and the Try Singers, Hugh Tracey

Amen

- Church Choir, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Sukumuphendula. Part I (Stand up and reply)

- Large group of Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Large group of Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Entonjeni, Pigg's Peak f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152938 , vital:39364 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-01
  • Description: It is customary to perform this in a wheeling movement before dismisal. It used to be an old regimental custom but is now done when a piece of work is finished as an indication they are now dispersing. "Sukumuphendule we mntaka mahlokohla kudumi nganeno kuking u sebuza abephumanga phesheya. Uligabazi lenjobo kabephumesi godlwe ni vuma kushwi nkhuyanje nkondho tindhwuna taka gwa ne tiphacumu tsethoo." "Stand up and reply (Sebuza) you, son of Mahlokohla. Cannons are firing for King Sebuza, when coming from overseas. You (Sebuza) know how to dance when you come from the palace. We say, Agree! The indunas of Swaziland disagree with these laws." This chant refers to Subuza's visit to England for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and was composed to greet him on his return. Ukuhlehla walking and running song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Title Not Specified

- Dyiwili, Nofinishi, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Hlala nathi nkosi

- Xhosa festival workshop participants, Lokho, Alfred, Dargie, Dave

Collection Song

- Our Lady of Africa Congregation, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Prayer Response

- Church Music Workshop and Mass, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Bawo wethu = Our Father

- St Patrick's congregation, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Alleluia

- Queenstown Roman Catholic Cathedral ordination choir of 1984, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Ngiyakholwa nguThixo

- Church music workshop participants, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Eh, Pula aene, e le mogogo (Let it rain)

- Tietse Modisane and group of about 30 women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tietse Modisane and group of about 30 women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Motswedi f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165565 , vital:41257 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0113-06
  • Description: "Let it rain! Let it rain so that it washes all the rubbish away with its waters!" The Western Transvaal has inadequate rainfall in many places as low as 15 to 18 inches a year, gradually becoming reduced towards the West and the Kalahari Desert where recently in one region no rain at all has fallen for five years. This accounts for the numerous rain songs to be found among the Tswana tribes who have good cause for anxiety for their crops each year. No rain songs are sung in high rainfall areas. The praise lines or verses are set lines, not impromptu. The words are both archaic and poetic used only for Leboko. The clapping is ritual, but it is always correct to clap the hands when asking for something. The Moroka or rainmaker was the officiant in a rain-making ceremony. Rain song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Nemegye

- Oboto Sukuma, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Oboto Sukuma , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Medje f-cg
  • Language: Mangbetu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166906 , vital:41417 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0121-03
  • Description: The singer who appears to be over the age of 60 is a renowned performer in this district. The audience thoroughly enjoyed his wit, though without an interpreter available its substance was not disclosed. The singer appears to use a few Swhaili words in the earlier verses of 'Nemegye'. Topical song with Nenjenje lute, two strings.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Maguqela lendawo

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

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