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Lefu la Seeiso

- Southern Choir, not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Lemagino lukhanya

- Ikhongorwa, Konu, Sukumu men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Letla yaka legolu

- Sechuana Sacred Singers, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Liyala

- Balizi ba Milopa (Performer), Composer not specified

M'hlaba tilika

- George, Sibanda, Performer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Maga kumaziyanziya

- Mutswene, Joel, Tracey, Hugh

Maga kumaziyanziya

- Mutswene, Joel, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Magigwana

- Tswa dancers, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Maiyo ewandaile kufwalu chikwembe

- Matafwani, Isaac, Sunkutu, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Makunda zimaye

- Anga, Mayogo men and women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Makunda Zimaye

- Mayogo men and women, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Makunda zimaye

- Mayogo men and women, led by Chief Anga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mayogo men and women, led by Chief Anga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Bangba (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mayogo f-cg
  • Language: Mayogo/Bazo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166458 , vital:41366 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0118-05
  • Description: All the drums were made at Niangara. Ebi is a circular dance, with men dancing in file anti-clockwise in the inner circle, the girld dancing in file in the outer circle. The conical laced drums are made with elephants' ears, the small slit drums are formed out of a half section of a tree and may be either cylindrical or triangular in shape. The four legs are made out of the remaining half section carved out of one piece with the body of the drum. Ebi dance with 2 wooden pod slit drums, 2 large conical laced drums, 1 metal double bell, 2 small wooden cylindrical drums and 1 large wooden cylindrical slit drum.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952

Malomile

- Group of Sotho women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Mambala I

- Group of Luba women and 3 drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Luba women and 3 drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Lubilashi f-cg
  • Language: Lunda , Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182949 , vital:43896 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-10
  • Description: This cheereful music gives no impression at all of being associated with a funeral, but the singers stated that it was so. The three drums were called respectively:- DITUMBA weighted with wax, with a mirliton, (lutanda). GATUMBATUMBA which was neither weighted nor had a mirliton. MUTUMBI weighted with wax but without miriliton. The singing gourds were the usual empty gourds commonly used by Luba women. Funeral dance song, with 3 goblet drums, closed, pinned, with mirliton, and 2 singing gourds
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952

Mambala I

- Group of Luba Women and 3 drummers, not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mambala I

- Luba Women, Perfomer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mambala I

- Luba women and three drummers, performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mamilambo

- Women of Kalana location, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Women of Kalana location , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa King Williams Town f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150003 , vital:38929 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-16
  • Description: A diviner arrived in person but declined to sing with the women who were all sitting around on the floor of the hut, about 80 of them. "Mamilambo" is said to be a spirit or charm in the shape of a snake, which the people buy from the diviners in order to obtain good luck and get rich-so it was explained. The married women were more soberly dressed than the young unmarried ones and wore their headclothes in the more usual Xhosa 'pile' of cloth on the head, producing a large loose turban-like effect. Diviner's song, with clapping.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Mangoane phutholla kobo (Stretch out the blanket, Aunt)

- not defined, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: not defined , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161303 , vital:40614 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-06
  • Description: "Aunt, stretch out the blanket. There are two of us. Stretch out the blanket, I will be coming, I am going out to smoke. When I leave here, going away. Montsala remain here and look after my children. Look after Mamotolo and Malerato and Toma. Toma, look after these children of mine particulary Mamotolo and Malerato. I looks as if I will be going away. I feel I am going. I really feel I will be crossing the river." 'To cross the river' in Sesotho means "I will be going to the Union of South Africa" with reference to the Calendon river which forms part of the border between the two countries. Women's party song, with clapping.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1959

Mangwasi

- Tauni Mwenasasu and friend, Tauni, Mwenasasu, Tracey, Hugh

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