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Atalwa endito

- Baiyani Medurek with Arusha men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Baiyani Medurek with Arusha men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Maasai (African people) , Songs, Maasai , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Arusha f-tz
  • Language: Masai
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173992 , vital:42429 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR153-12
  • Description: "I eloped with your wife and she is still with me. So what can you do about it?" sings the man. He then goes on to sing about his cattle and the hills of Arusha. The second man took over the solo part half way through the item. The simple responses by the men is said to be typical of Embrukoi singing. Embrukoi dance song for men and women.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Atate wuchona kwa Rhodesia

- Joviani Nkhoma, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Joviani Nkhoma , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184857 , vital:44279 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-06
  • Description: His Bango is unusual in that it has two tin resonators, one at each end. He played the strings with his left hand and beat a simple pulse on one of the resonators with his right hand and miming the action at the word "Ndito", 'truly'. For the second song he turned his Bango round and held it at right angels pointing away from him touching the strings with his left hand and striking them with his right. This is the normal way of holding the instrument. The performer looked like a little old elf. Lament with Bango zither with 7 metal strings
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Atshakongwe wamwe muno kuwala kwawo (The women of this country all wear the same kind of dress)

- Five Nyasa men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Five Nyasa men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Likoma f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160804 , vital:40547 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-06
  • Description: The drum was played with a stick in the left hand tapping on the side of the drum alternately with the head. The right hand kept up the rythm in the usual way. During this lively performnace the bottle player shattered his bottle into fragments, continuing to beat the neck of the beat which remained in his hand until that too disintegrated under the blows of the six inch nail. At the end of the first item the player dashed off to a nearby hut and produced the next best substitute, a new hoe blade. This recording was made by Nyasa workers at a Citrus Estate near Nelspruit, Eastern Transvaal. Party dance with double headed drum, concertina and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Atu

- Andre Boniface Wahamba and group of Chokwe men, Hugh Tracey

Atufundi uyanganje (Go straight off and keep together - do not linger

- Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba, Hugh Tracey

Atuwendi kumanzi ntwende kumulonga tukateke menda (Go to the river, go to draw water.Let us get water)

- Timoti Sadimbi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Timoti Sadimbi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138117 , vital:37595 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-16
  • Description: Timoti wet the flute with water first before playing. These flutes, they say, are played in January and February, and finished in March, during the time when they start to eat the new season's summer crop of mealies. They are played in the field. The flute is played with the fingers of the right hand palm turned inwards and is held in thus hand only. Flute tune for harvest with Mutetule usibgwa transverse reed flute x 3, open at far end.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Aunakuva unafoko upendukile (Can't you understand your mother has changed her mind)

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Hugh Tracey

Awakasi mbuwayi

- James Matigo with Jita men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: James Matigo with Jita men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kwaya (African people) , Jita (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Musoma f-tz
  • Language: Kwaya , Jita
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175105 , vital:42540 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR157-18
  • Description: The dance is a shaking dance in which the top part of the body, and the throax is rhythmically revolved with the arms and shoulder blades revolving in concert with the chest. This type of dance action appears to be very commonly employed in the district near the Lake Victoria. The item was recorded at the Mwadui Williamson Diamond Mine where the men were employed. Marimba dance song for men and women, Marimba (Mbira) 12 notes.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Awana wane wakuluganga

- 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/10962/173632 , vital:42391 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR152-03
  • Description: Secret socities, charms and occult ideas are an everyday part of the lives of the Sukuma people. Charms and counter charms to a people who know no physical chain of cause and effect and only a vague one, are still considered valuable. The Wigasha dance is performed sitting down with most of the action confined to stretching up the arms and twisting the torso. The team of dancers performs routine actions in unision with arms and body. The song reflects the considerable ability of Sukuma people to compose and sing intricate songs.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Awe wedikoyoyo (No meaning)

- Pearson Kapeni, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Pearson Kapeni , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153788 , vital:39522 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-03
  • Description: "The women of Dowa desire very much to drink beer. Their work indeed is to drink beer. The women of Dowa, their work is to sell flour and flat cakes. And when they get home their marriage is broken. The women of Msoci, their work is to love the market place. And they was on Saturday only." I, Pearson Kapeni have troubles in the country of Dowa. This country hates me, why does it hate me? The reference to washing on Saturday is appreciated when one remembers that Saturday is market day in Dowa when the women put on their best clothes. The song struck home as it was true. Topical song with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Awe, iee, sankha wekha (Choose, yourself)

- Petros Samalaboma, Hugh Tracey

Awelemuwo ee dandaula (Awelemuwo worries to much)

- Young Chewa boys (Under 20 years), Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young Chewa boys (Under 20 years) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156914 , vital:40066 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-12
  • Description: The Ilala dance started, they say in 1957 in the Fort Johnstone district. It is performed by youth standing in rows or circles and shaking their shoulders forwards and backwards and thrusting out their chins in time with syncopation of the Mudewa drums. This action requires great suppleness of the neck and upper spine to perform effectively. The movement is distinctive to Ilala and is neither like the rippling of the Xhosa or the shaking of the Chopi dancers. Ilala dance with two drums (Mudewa and Kachisi).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Awoli a legimenti

- Tumbuka women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tumbuka women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185141 , vital:44332 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-11
  • Description: "Soilders wives, take care of your clothes, you may have to dispose of some of them to buy yourselves food." A poignant little song which reflects the experience of war wives (1939-45). It has an attractive melody in the chorus. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Awu mungoya wetu amusolile konongo Part I

- Madeje Matengo with Gogo men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Madeje Matengo with Gogo men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Gogo (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mvumi f-tz
  • Language: Gogo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174243 , vital:42458 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR155-01
  • Description: "The English and the Germans came and still come into our country. What so they want? We do not know them well. This song of ours comes from the Nyamwezi." A lovely chant sung before dancing, by a most decorative people. They sing also about their soilders who fought in the 1939-45 war, and how they went to the Middle East and Ceylon. The song is one of the typical sung legends or epics of the Gogo who are renowned for their compositions of this nature. In the first part the young composer and his friend sing an introduction and at 1m 30s after the start they introduce the chorus of men and women who are standing in line of dance three or four deep. The soilders line each phrase caling "Kanyi" when they want a phrase or stanza repeated. Nindo praise song
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Awu mungoya wetu amusolile konongo Part II

- Madeje Matengo with Gogo men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Madeje Matengo with Gogo men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Gogo (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mvumi f-tz
  • Language: Gogo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174252 , vital:42459 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR155-02
  • Description: The dance which follows the chanting of Awu Mungoya. Part I. Each man had a pod shaped metal bell or two tied below one knee which emphasised the stamping of that foot. Unlike the Zulu, the Gogo appear to stamp only one foot, and not alternate feet in this dance. The flute obligato lends an attractive rustic touch to the whole. This recording is part of the dance which normally follows the opening song, the sound of the leg bells and the Mulanzi flute being heard. The full dance lasts for a considerable time and only a part was recorded. Nindo praise dance for men and women with Malanzi transverse flute, 2 holed, stopped, -11.331 x 2- and Ndwala bells.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Awu mungoya wetu amusolile konongo Part III

- Madeje Matengo with Gogo men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Madeje Matengo with Gogo men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Gogo (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mvumi f-tz
  • Language: Gogo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174261 , vital:42460 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR155-03
  • Description: In this recording the whole group sing the song again, this time not a dance but as a song with most of the stanzas included. It is clear that the length of the song depends largely on the leaders and the leaders and the stanzas they line. There are few in Africa within our experience who can compare with these Gogo musicians in their special field. Nindo praise dance for men and women with Malanzi transverse flute, 2 holed, stopped.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Aya-ye kufwafwile Lozhine totale kamile malila

- Three Chokwe men, Hugh Tracey

Ayaas imoo esosi ka sogoli

- Ekisa Saulo and Teso men, Hugh Tracey

Ayahangiri abakazi

- Festo Mburabwikyo and Nyoro men and women, Hugh Tracey

Ayalero makulata

- Fainos Gasa, Hugh Tracey

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