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Ikulangamilaga kwilunde

- Mikengemalo Chaba with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mikengemalo Chaba 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 Mwadui f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173318 , vital:42359 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-09
  • Description: "The red necked cock looked up to the sky." The cutting of cicatrices on the face is accompanied by songs such as these, and by festivities and dancing. There is a local breed of fowls which have no feathers on their necks and very red skin. The song refers to a certain diviner who used to smear his face and neck with red earth. The people of the village can be heard chatting and laughing during the song, and a bird can be heard in the background of the second song. Ucheyeki song for cutting cicatrices.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Jean Pierre

- Mingana Paul and soilders of the Force Publique, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mingana Paul and soilders of the Force Publique , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Ngala (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
  • Language: Mbangala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169186 , vital:41693 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-13
  • Description: Stories of this kind are a peculiar invention of the Congo askaris, who have a large variety of them. This one is about a soilder who had three sons who refused to go to school and set out to educate themselves. One went to Leopoldville, one to Elizabethville and the third to Brussels. The last one, Jean Pierre, the youngest son, became a professional theif. He stole a fine car and drove it all the way up through Africa and on to Brussels in Beligium. There, he presented himself at the Palace. The Queen Astrid received him very graciously and asked him he wanted Jean Pierre was so overcome and taken aback at her kind request that he could think of nothing to say except "Some water please." Presently the King came in, having been on a long journey and when he saw Jean Pierre he ordered up the askari and had him flung into gaol, after which his friends would have nothing to do with him. The moral od the story, they said, is that one should not steal, and if the soilders steal, they say, their wives have them flung into gaol. These Congo soilders appear to have invented a wonderful way of ensuring the attention of the audience throughout their stories, at unexpected intervals, the story teller shouts out "Histoire" to which everyone must immediately respond "Onolo!" No one could explain to us the origin of the response and whether the word was of French or African origin, 'en or' or 'onolo'. (Copied from disc). Story
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Kuriye

- Mireiye Sanganga with Chaga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mireiye Sanganga with Chaga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Marangu f-tz
  • Language: Gogo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174354 , vital:42470 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR155-13
  • Description: "Gather for defence." In the early days about 100-150 years ago, when the various tribes were pushing up onto the fertile slopes of the Kilimanjaro faction fighting was a daily occurance. At Marango the chief lived inside stout stone walls. Fighting song with sticks.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

O Horombo

- Mireiye Sanganga with Chaga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mireiye Sanganga with Chaga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Marangu f-tz
  • Language: Gogo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174345 , vital:42469 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR155-12
  • Description: Chief Horombo was the head chief of this section of the Chaga people. The Chaga living on the Southern slopes of Kilimanjaro were so divided amongst themselves that they developed five or six district dialects through isolation. The various streams cascading down the mountain from the snow caps acted as boundaries between the warring clans, each occupying a separate ridgr from top to bottom. Loyality song with sticks.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nkhanu (The crab)

- Miriam Nyalongwe and Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Miriam Nyalongwe and Chewa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159667 , vital:40325 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-13
  • Description: There was once a crab which was trying to eat the husks of millet and the owner drove it away. When it went back into the water it told its mother that people were driving it away. The mother said "Leave them, they will come to draw water and we will see them." But when they came to draw water they found the crab telling its mother and they were afraid and ran back to the village to tell the boys who came with their bows and arrows to kill the crab, as they were afraid the crab might in some way take its revenge for being denied food. Story.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nkhanu (The crab)

- Miriam Nyalongwe and Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Miriam Nyalongwe and Chewa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159676 , vital:40324 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-13
  • Description: There was once a crab which was trying to eat the husks of millet and the owner drove it away. When it went back into the water it told its mother that people were driving it away. The mother said "Leave them, they will come to draw water and we will see them." But when they came to draw water they found the crab telling its mother and they were afraid and ran back to the village to tell the boys who came with their bows and arrows to kill the crab, as they were afraid the crab might in some way take its revenge for being denied food. Story.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Urwintwari

- Mirimba Francois, Niyondorera Joseph, Gakombe Alexandre, Hugh Tracey

Musingasingu yakora egali II

- Misaki Muswankuli and Ruli men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Misaki Muswankuli and Ruli men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba Gombolole f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169843 , vital:41830 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-10
  • Description: In this record the players were brought in and out one after the other to show how the music is built up. The three players sitting on the one side of the xylophone, the 'leader', the 'wife and the man' all play the same melody in the three octaves. The player on the opposite side, the 'mixer' plays a contra-melody. Each can be distinctly heard in the record. Ntara dance with Ntara xylophone, 16 loose notes on temporary banana stalk supports.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Musingasingu yakora egali I

- Misaki Muswankuli and Ruli men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Misaki Muswankuli and Ruli men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba Gombolole f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169838 , vital:41829 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-09
  • Description: In this record the players were brought in and out one after the other to show how the music is built up. The three players sitting on the one side of the xylophone, the 'leader', the 'wife and the man' all play the same melody in the three octaves. The player on the opposite side, the 'mixer' plays a contra-melody. Each can be distinctly heard in the record. Ntara dance with Ntara xylophone, 16 loose notes on temporary banana stalk supports.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Rwosere

- Misaki Muswankuli and Ruli men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Misaki Muswankuli and Ruli men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba Gombolole f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169829 , vital:41828 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-08
  • Description: "Rwosere was a person who did not like work. We do not like lazy people." If what we hear is true most men in this district must be called Rwosere. Four players perform on the one xylophone, three on one side and one on the other. Ntara dance with Ntara xylophone, 16 loose notes on temporary banana stalk supports.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kgomo e tsaletse nageng thokwana (A grey cow has calved in the veld)

- Mishack Sehuneo, Hugh Tracey

Ngondo

- Mjuju Kashengereire with Haya boys, Hugh Tracey

Sishimela Sishela Bafazi Lebantu (A bachelor makes love to other men's wives)

- Mkakwa Mugomezungu, Hugh Tracey

Izintombi Ziyasishiya (Some girls desert us and take others lovers)

- Mkakwa Mugomezungu, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mkakwa Mugomezungu , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Pigg's Peak f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152695 , vital:39332 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR071-10
  • Description: This is an attractive little song accompanied by a very old and wheezy concertina most of whose original buttons were missing, some of which had been cleverly replaced by bits of reed. The burden of the song may have been more pointed because the singer was in fact a criminal serving a long sentence. The gaol where the recording was made was an open one with no walls or locked gates, and the prisoners they said made no attempt to escape. The song was said to have originated in the Gollel district in Southern Swaziland. Topical song with concertina.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kuulaya mtwayungi

- Mlongahilo with Hehe men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mlongahilo with Hehe men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Hehe (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kilolo f-tz
  • Language: Hehe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175058 , vital:42535 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR157-13
  • Description: "England send us another District Commissioner in place of the one who is leaving." The two sets of bells worn on either leg are called:- Mangala yi mulalula which are the high noted bells and Mangala ingahola which are the low noted bells. Dance songs are composed from the simplest factual material, in this case from the fact that the local District Commissioner of Iringa had been transferred. Viwunga dance song for men, with Nduntsi and Ndamula single headed, open pegged hourglass drums, and Mangala bells (-12.55-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mganga gwilyawawina

- Mlongahilo with Hehe men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mlongahilo with Hehe men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Hehe (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kilolo f-tz
  • Language: Hehe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175067 , vital:42536 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR157-14
  • Description: "Dead bodies become earth." This song reflects the European, Christian 'earth to earth' conception. The two sets of bells worn on either leg are called:- Mangala yi mulalula which are the high noted bells and Mangala ingahola which are the low noted bells. Dance songs are composed from the simplest factual material, in this case from the fact that the local District Commissioner of Iringa had been transferred. Viwunga dance song for men, with Nduntsi and Ndamula single headed, open pegged hourglass drums, and Mangala bells (-12.55-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Magogwe mo Leseng Part 2(Let the honey bear dig out the ant bear)

- Mmapane Taunyane with 3 women and 1 man, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mmapane Taunyane with 3 women and 1 man , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Tlharo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164236 , vital:41097 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0110-10
  • Description: "Let the honey bear dig out the ant bear!" "Honey bear, look out for the flies, they are getting into the honey!" A woman crept about on the ground with her face in a large pot and her arms stretched out before her, grunting into the pot. This was meant to be in imitation of a honey bear. This one of the games played in the evening. Drinking song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Magogwe mo Leseng Part 1(Let the honey bear dig out the ant bear)

- Mmapane Taunyane with 3 women and 1 man, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mmapane Taunyane with 3 women and 1 man , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Tlharo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164231 , vital:41096 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0110-09
  • Description: "Let the honey bear dig out the ant bear!" "Honey bear, look out for the flies, they are getting into the honey!" A woman crept about on the ground with her face in a large pot and her arms stretched out before her, grunting into the pot. This was meant to be in imitation of a honey bear. This one of the games played in the evening. Drinking song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Kgokong

- Modiseng, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Modiseng , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1948
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Maraisburg f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Lete
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166283 , vital:41347 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-09
  • Description: There are 4 sets of single end-blown pipes, 4 in each. From 1120 vs. to 93 vs. Each set covers a fifth only and is an octave lower than the one above. All notes bearing approximately the same relationship. Treble pipes are called Metenyane, Alto pipes are called Dinikwana, Tenor pipes are called Meporo, Bass pipes are called Meporo e metelele. Intervals: 259. 240. 209 cents. Total 708 cents. These copper and iron pipes are stopped with wood. In Bechuanaland, the pipes are made of reed-Matlhaka. These two flute tunes were recorded eleven years earlier than the other items on this side. Flute tune.
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  • Date Issued: 1948

Godumaduma gwa Mosadi

- Modiseng, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Modiseng , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1948
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Maraisburg f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Lete
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166275 , vital:41346 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-08
  • Description: There are 4 sets of single end-blown pipes, 4 in each. From 1120 vs. to 93 vs. Each set covers a fifth only and is an octave lower than the one above. All notes bearing approximately the same relationship. Treble pipes are called Metenyane, Alto pipes are called Dinikwana, Tenor pipes are called Meporo, Bass pipes are called Meporo e metelele. Intervals: 259. 240. 209 cents. Total 708 cents. These copper and iron pipes are stopped with wood. In Bechuanaland, the pipes are made of reed-Matlhaka. These two flute tunes were recorded eleven years earlier than the other items on this side. Flute tune.
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  • Date Issued: 1948
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