Ulumbundubundu
- 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/10962/138947 , vital:37688 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-01
- Description: Played with 4 notes. The notes were roughly hewn pieces of wood laid across the thighs ans played by means of sticks. In this case, the player stood behind the back of the young man on whose thighs the notes were played and beat the notes bending forward over his shoulders. The man acting as xylophone stand sat on a stool with his feet on another stool. Beneath his thighs was a large pot used as simple external resonator. The instrument is played out in the fields when preparing the winter gardens in May. Once the gardens are planted, the xylophone notes are discarded and used as fire wood, new ones being cut each year. The position of the loose notes was changed with each change of tune to facilitate the playing of the item. The pause during the 3rd recording was caused by one of the notes rolling down the boys's thigh and having to be replaced. Self-delectative song with Chikirekore loose note xylophone x 4 notes, pot resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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/10962/138947 , vital:37688 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-01
- Description: Played with 4 notes. The notes were roughly hewn pieces of wood laid across the thighs ans played by means of sticks. In this case, the player stood behind the back of the young man on whose thighs the notes were played and beat the notes bending forward over his shoulders. The man acting as xylophone stand sat on a stool with his feet on another stool. Beneath his thighs was a large pot used as simple external resonator. The instrument is played out in the fields when preparing the winter gardens in May. Once the gardens are planted, the xylophone notes are discarded and used as fire wood, new ones being cut each year. The position of the loose notes was changed with each change of tune to facilitate the playing of the item. The pause during the 3rd recording was caused by one of the notes rolling down the boys's thigh and having to be replaced. Self-delectative song with Chikirekore loose note xylophone x 4 notes, pot resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Bino Siabungu balu oba mboma, wewe (We 'honour' those who killed the mother of Siabungu)
- Group of Tonga men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , 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/10962/138035 , vital:37586 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-07
- Description: The sound of the women's feet can be heard on the hard dusty ground. "Honour" is used in the opposite sense, really meaning "hate." In this song the usual African belief that death is caused by ill-wishing or magic, is implied. Funeral dance song with ensemble of Nyele end-blown antelope horns and Ngoma drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , 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/10962/138035 , vital:37586 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-07
- Description: The sound of the women's feet can be heard on the hard dusty ground. "Honour" is used in the opposite sense, really meaning "hate." In this song the usual African belief that death is caused by ill-wishing or magic, is implied. Funeral dance song with ensemble of Nyele end-blown antelope horns and Ngoma drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tamanangu (Give me water)
- Authors: Edward Panisi , 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/10962/139059 , vital:37700 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-11
- Description: This was performed by a small boy of about 11 or 12 years old, who is clearly already cut out to be a musician and leader of dances. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Edward Panisi , 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/10962/139059 , vital:37700 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-11
- Description: This was performed by a small boy of about 11 or 12 years old, who is clearly already cut out to be a musician and leader of dances. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndaboola oko ( I am on my way there)
- H. G. Habanyama and group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: H. G. Habanyama and group of Tonga men , 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/10962/138928 , vital:37686 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-13
- Description: "I am lonely, I wish you would come and help me-who shall sing me my mother's song before I die-I am ashamed because there is nobody who will sing my mother's song." Chiyema party song for men and women with 2 goblet and 1 cylindrical drum, hand beaten and 1 Kayanda tin rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: H. G. Habanyama and group of Tonga men , 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/10962/138928 , vital:37686 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-13
- Description: "I am lonely, I wish you would come and help me-who shall sing me my mother's song before I die-I am ashamed because there is nobody who will sing my mother's song." Chiyema party song for men and women with 2 goblet and 1 cylindrical drum, hand beaten and 1 Kayanda tin rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Zakanaka musikana e yeye (It is all right, girl)
- Jerevani Siakuteka, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Jerevani Siakuteka , 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/10962/139010 , vital:37695 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-08
- Description: The onlookers occassionally make comments especially if they like the song. "Chabota" - good or "Play well, so that the children will listen to you." And, "I will sit all day and smoke while you play," Chief Chipepo made this last remark. The chief in these parts is addressed as "Mwami" , as in Ruanda-Urundi. Tuning of the instrument as follows: 384, 352, 316, 288, 256, 232, 208, 192 vps. Self-delectative song with Deza mbira, board and external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Jerevani Siakuteka , 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/10962/139010 , vital:37695 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-08
- Description: The onlookers occassionally make comments especially if they like the song. "Chabota" - good or "Play well, so that the children will listen to you." And, "I will sit all day and smoke while you play," Chief Chipepo made this last remark. The chief in these parts is addressed as "Mwami" , as in Ruanda-Urundi. Tuning of the instrument as follows: 384, 352, 316, 288, 256, 232, 208, 192 vps. Self-delectative song with Deza mbira, board and external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kusekerwa
- Group of Tonga women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Tonga women , 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/10962/138008 , vital:37583 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-04
- Description: The only headdress the women wear is a simple band or string round the head and passing over the forehead. They wear a few strings round their neck occassionaly. Their dress mainly consists of a short knee-length skirt and sometimes a bodice. They sometimes wear a good many copper or brass anklets. Skins are still worn as a covering for the upper part of the body. The men have no special dress, just the usual collection of tattered shirts, shorts and trousers. The implication of the second song is: "Now I am married, I don't know where I'm going to; I may have to sleep any where, perhaps in a tree, perhaps on a stone. Marriage song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Tonga women , 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/10962/138008 , vital:37583 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-04
- Description: The only headdress the women wear is a simple band or string round the head and passing over the forehead. They wear a few strings round their neck occassionaly. Their dress mainly consists of a short knee-length skirt and sometimes a bodice. They sometimes wear a good many copper or brass anklets. Skins are still worn as a covering for the upper part of the body. The men have no special dress, just the usual collection of tattered shirts, shorts and trousers. The implication of the second song is: "Now I am married, I don't know where I'm going to; I may have to sleep any where, perhaps in a tree, perhaps on a stone. Marriage song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nyele/Horns
- Authors: 17 Tonga men , 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/10962/138490 , vital:37642 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-14
- Description: An experimental recording of the Nyele horns, to demonstrate their tuning, the order of their appearance and general scheme of melody. They are commonly played with drums and not by themselves alone, and are employed upon various ceremonial occasions such as funerals and large gatherings. They vary in size from about 5" to 18" long and are taken from a variety of antelope. Names of Nyele pipes (from smallest to largest) 1. Kampeko. 2. Simulya sikiri. 3. Senseku. 4. Jungainga. 5. Pindakati. 6. Muwere. 7. Siamupa. 8. Mpako. 9. Fulwa. 10. Saina. 11. Mulundu chigabana. 12. Gapalikwa. 13. Fumbira momba. 14. Tiabutiabu. 15. Tandamubbgwa. 16. Tandawanyoko. 17. Tukirauso. Horn ensemble with set of 17 Nyele antelope end-blown horns.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: 17 Tonga men , 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/10962/138490 , vital:37642 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-14
- Description: An experimental recording of the Nyele horns, to demonstrate their tuning, the order of their appearance and general scheme of melody. They are commonly played with drums and not by themselves alone, and are employed upon various ceremonial occasions such as funerals and large gatherings. They vary in size from about 5" to 18" long and are taken from a variety of antelope. Names of Nyele pipes (from smallest to largest) 1. Kampeko. 2. Simulya sikiri. 3. Senseku. 4. Jungainga. 5. Pindakati. 6. Muwere. 7. Siamupa. 8. Mpako. 9. Fulwa. 10. Saina. 11. Mulundu chigabana. 12. Gapalikwa. 13. Fumbira momba. 14. Tiabutiabu. 15. Tandamubbgwa. 16. Tandawanyoko. 17. Tukirauso. Horn ensemble with set of 17 Nyele antelope end-blown horns.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kulene mamama ndaimbirira, nikawa kapongo ndaimbirira (From far, mama, I sing. Give me a goat)
- Tenesi Mutanga and Tonga men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Tenesi Mutanga and Tonga men , 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/10962/138288 , vital:37619 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-16
- Description: In many African tribes the travelling entertainer or mendicant is a familiar figure, playing an instrument and dancing. He is usually rewarded with food and small presents and makes no bones about asking for them. Mendicant's song with sound of feet and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Tenesi Mutanga and Tonga men , 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/10962/138288 , vital:37619 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-16
- Description: In many African tribes the travelling entertainer or mendicant is a familiar figure, playing an instrument and dancing. He is usually rewarded with food and small presents and makes no bones about asking for them. Mendicant's song with sound of feet and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tonkanono katere kano (Tonkanono is very tasty)
- Tenesi Mutanga and Tonga men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Tenesi Mutanga and Tonga men , 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/10962/138297 , vital:37620 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-17
- Description: "When you have a special kind of relish and you put salt in it, you say it is very tasty indeed, and thank the cook." Salt is a rare commodity in the valley and is obtained with difficulty from the grasses growing near the hot springs. Consequently it is often reserved, they say, from special dishes of relish such as this tonkanono (whose indentity we were unable to establish). Mendicant's song with sound of feet and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Tenesi Mutanga and Tonga men , 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/10962/138297 , vital:37620 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-17
- Description: "When you have a special kind of relish and you put salt in it, you say it is very tasty indeed, and thank the cook." Salt is a rare commodity in the valley and is obtained with difficulty from the grasses growing near the hot springs. Consequently it is often reserved, they say, from special dishes of relish such as this tonkanono (whose indentity we were unable to establish). Mendicant's song with sound of feet and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kanakazibulu
- 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/10962/138966 , vital:37691 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-04
- Description: Played with 4 notes. The notes were roughly hewn pieces of wood laid across the thighs ans played by means of sticks. In this case, the player stood behind the back of the young man on whose thighs the notes were played and beat the notes bending forward over his shoulders. The man acting as xylophone stand sat on a stool with his feet on another stool. Beneath his thighs was a large pot used as simple external resonator. The instrument is played out in the fields when preparing the winter gardens in May. Once the gardens are planted, the xylophone notes are discarded and used as fire wood, new ones being cut each year. The position of the loose notes was changed with each change of tune to facilitate the playing of the item. The pause during the 3rd recording was caused by one of the notes rolling down the boys's thigh and having to be replaced. Self-delectative song with Chikirekore loose note xylophone x 4 notes, pot resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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/10962/138966 , vital:37691 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-04
- Description: Played with 4 notes. The notes were roughly hewn pieces of wood laid across the thighs ans played by means of sticks. In this case, the player stood behind the back of the young man on whose thighs the notes were played and beat the notes bending forward over his shoulders. The man acting as xylophone stand sat on a stool with his feet on another stool. Beneath his thighs was a large pot used as simple external resonator. The instrument is played out in the fields when preparing the winter gardens in May. Once the gardens are planted, the xylophone notes are discarded and used as fire wood, new ones being cut each year. The position of the loose notes was changed with each change of tune to facilitate the playing of the item. The pause during the 3rd recording was caused by one of the notes rolling down the boys's thigh and having to be replaced. Self-delectative song with Chikirekore loose note xylophone x 4 notes, pot resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kalikambo? (What is the cause?)
- Group of Tonga men and girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and girls , 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/10962/138572 , vital:37651 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-08
- Description: The dancers would come out in pairs, man and girl, dance together for a while opposite each other and then retire to make way for others. Mankuntu dance song for men and women with 2 goblet drums beaten by sticks, and 1 Kayanda conical drum played with hands.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and girls , 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/10962/138572 , vital:37651 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-08
- Description: The dancers would come out in pairs, man and girl, dance together for a while opposite each other and then retire to make way for others. Mankuntu dance song for men and women with 2 goblet drums beaten by sticks, and 1 Kayanda conical drum played with hands.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Karikambo? (What shall I do?)
- Masaria and other Tonga women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Masaria and other Tonga women , 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/10962/138137 , vital:37597 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-02
- Description: This song were taken during the actual grinding of millet into meal outside a hut. The millet was a fine brown variety known as Munga in Rhodesia. This small work song is sometimes well known by everyone in the village and commonly used by the women as they grind their corn on the stone outside their hut, or they are individual compositions without a name and with few words to the lyrics. Grinding song accompanied by the sound of grindstone.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Masaria and other Tonga women , 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/10962/138137 , vital:37597 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-02
- Description: This song were taken during the actual grinding of millet into meal outside a hut. The millet was a fine brown variety known as Munga in Rhodesia. This small work song is sometimes well known by everyone in the village and commonly used by the women as they grind their corn on the stone outside their hut, or they are individual compositions without a name and with few words to the lyrics. Grinding song accompanied by the sound of grindstone.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kawala milonga kalila kate (The ferry men are complaining about the Zambezi being in flood)
- Segareti Chirumpu, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Segareti Chirumpu , 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/10962/139001 , vital:37694 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-07
- Description: When the Zambezi is in flood the ferry men cannot paddle their canoes across. They do this ferrying to help people across but we are told, are not paid for their services. Self-delectative song with Kankobela mbira, fan-shaped, external resonator and mirliton.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Segareti Chirumpu , 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/10962/139001 , vital:37694 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-07
- Description: When the Zambezi is in flood the ferry men cannot paddle their canoes across. They do this ferrying to help people across but we are told, are not paid for their services. Self-delectative song with Kankobela mbira, fan-shaped, external resonator and mirliton.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Luano lwankanga ampie (The story of the man, the guineafowl and the blue jay)
- Group of young Tonga girls and children with Simon Sibgwela, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of young Tonga girls and children with Simon Sibgwela , 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/10962/138508 , vital:37644 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-02
- Description: It appears to be the custom amongst the Tonga children to interrupt the story teller by questions or comments in addition to saying the usual refrain of "Kalanga-ti" and joining in the chorus of the song. The story is about a man who went to a wizard to get a charm to change himself into a guinea-fowl.Story with songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of young Tonga girls and children with Simon Sibgwela , 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/10962/138508 , vital:37644 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-02
- Description: It appears to be the custom amongst the Tonga children to interrupt the story teller by questions or comments in addition to saying the usual refrain of "Kalanga-ti" and joining in the chorus of the song. The story is about a man who went to a wizard to get a charm to change himself into a guinea-fowl.Story with songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kule-kule kuwincherera bena bangu (Far - far away, I get the food to feed my children)
- Tenesi Muntanga and Panisi Mwetwa and group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Tenesi Muntanga and Panisi Mwetwa and group of Tonga men , 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/10962/138323 , vital:37624 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-20
- Description: Here in this typical mendicant's song, the subject of food is well to the fore. Food is the major preoccupation in a simple tribal society such as this, in more remote parts of the Zambezi Valley. Mendicant's song with leg rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Tenesi Muntanga and Panisi Mwetwa and group of Tonga men , 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/10962/138323 , vital:37624 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-20
- Description: Here in this typical mendicant's song, the subject of food is well to the fore. Food is the major preoccupation in a simple tribal society such as this, in more remote parts of the Zambezi Valley. Mendicant's song with leg rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Yachipondeka 'owe owe'
- Masaria and other Tonga women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Masaria and other Tonga women , 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/10962/138126 , vital:37596 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-01
- Description: This song were taken during the actual grinding of millet into meal outside a hut. The millet was a fine brown variety known as Munga in Rhodesia. This small work song is sometimes well known by everyone in the village and commonly used by the women as they grind their corn on the stone outside their hut, or they are individual compositions without a name and with few words to the lyrics. Grinding song accompanied by the sound of grindstone.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Masaria and other Tonga women , 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/10962/138126 , vital:37596 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-01
- Description: This song were taken during the actual grinding of millet into meal outside a hut. The millet was a fine brown variety known as Munga in Rhodesia. This small work song is sometimes well known by everyone in the village and commonly used by the women as they grind their corn on the stone outside their hut, or they are individual compositions without a name and with few words to the lyrics. Grinding song accompanied by the sound of grindstone.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ngwani ulala mudundulu (You bachelors, how do you like sleeping alone?)
- Siambelele Nyama, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Siambelele Nyama , 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/10962/138252 , vital:37615 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-13
- Description: The singer goes on: "You go to workin towns, but when you return home, you failto pay your bride price. You are queer fellows. What do you go to town for - I don't sleep alone. and I am sorry for you. Oh, let me go, I do not want to stay with you bachelors. You had better consult the diviners and ask them to tell you your fortune." "Siambelele" means a sheep, so the singer's name means "Sheep's meat." The tuning of the instrument as follows:- 656, 584, 528, 472, 432, 396, 356, 328, 292, 264 vps. Humorous song with Kankowela mbira. with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Siambelele Nyama , 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/10962/138252 , vital:37615 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-13
- Description: The singer goes on: "You go to workin towns, but when you return home, you failto pay your bride price. You are queer fellows. What do you go to town for - I don't sleep alone. and I am sorry for you. Oh, let me go, I do not want to stay with you bachelors. You had better consult the diviners and ask them to tell you your fortune." "Siambelele" means a sheep, so the singer's name means "Sheep's meat." The tuning of the instrument as follows:- 656, 584, 528, 472, 432, 396, 356, 328, 292, 264 vps. Humorous song with Kankowela mbira. with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Gumina (Counting jingle-one to ten)
- Authors: Tonga woman , 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/10962/137981 , vital:37580 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-01
- Description: The extended fingers of each hand are marked off to accompany the words by closing each in turn, starting with the little finger of the left hand, then the same of the right, ending by clapping the closed hands together. There are several counting songs which are variations of this. It is not at all well-known in Gwembe and Sinazongwe, however. Whilst this was being recorded, a group of small girls discovered they could use the hub caps and bumber of the car as a mirror and after admiring themselves began to dance to their reflections.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Tonga woman , 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/10962/137981 , vital:37580 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-01
- Description: The extended fingers of each hand are marked off to accompany the words by closing each in turn, starting with the little finger of the left hand, then the same of the right, ending by clapping the closed hands together. There are several counting songs which are variations of this. It is not at all well-known in Gwembe and Sinazongwe, however. Whilst this was being recorded, a group of small girls discovered they could use the hub caps and bumber of the car as a mirror and after admiring themselves began to dance to their reflections.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ngoma
- Group of Tonga men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , 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/10962/138810 , vital:37674 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-05
- Description: The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length and shape of the horns employed. The smaller boys played the shorter horns and the larger boys the longer horns. The bass horns needing more breath to blow them. This is a very wild kind of dance, with everyone dancing madly in a mob. The step is a short staccato, jigging step to and fro, very simple. Noise seems to be the main object and the dust thrown up by their feet in the alluvial soil of the river valley almost obscured the tight knot of dancers. The celeste caused by the treble pipes in deafening to an observer, but too high pitched to record. The names of the 7 drums from smal to large were:- 1) Gogogo, 2) Kingaridi, 3) Chamutanda, 4) Muntunda, 5) Mujinji, 6) Pininga, 7) Pati. The first four are played with sticks and the three others with hands. They are all the same basic shape being an almost square cut rectangular cylinder for a body and a hollow pipe of wood without foot for a base. They are all sung across the shoulder or held between the thighs for playing. Ngoma dance with Nyele end-blown antelope horn and set of Ngoma drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , 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/10962/138810 , vital:37674 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-05
- Description: The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length and shape of the horns employed. The smaller boys played the shorter horns and the larger boys the longer horns. The bass horns needing more breath to blow them. This is a very wild kind of dance, with everyone dancing madly in a mob. The step is a short staccato, jigging step to and fro, very simple. Noise seems to be the main object and the dust thrown up by their feet in the alluvial soil of the river valley almost obscured the tight knot of dancers. The celeste caused by the treble pipes in deafening to an observer, but too high pitched to record. The names of the 7 drums from smal to large were:- 1) Gogogo, 2) Kingaridi, 3) Chamutanda, 4) Muntunda, 5) Mujinji, 6) Pininga, 7) Pati. The first four are played with sticks and the three others with hands. They are all the same basic shape being an almost square cut rectangular cylinder for a body and a hollow pipe of wood without foot for a base. They are all sung across the shoulder or held between the thighs for playing. Ngoma dance with Nyele end-blown antelope horn and set of Ngoma drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ulawika
- Authors: Four Tonga men , 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/10962/138471 , vital:37640 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-12
- Description: Towards the end the Mwani of Sinefwala leaned forward and said over the shoulders of the men: "These are the riddles of my country." It is clear from the recording that the rest of the villagers enjoyed it very much. Riddles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Four Tonga men , 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/10962/138471 , vital:37640 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-12
- Description: Towards the end the Mwani of Sinefwala leaned forward and said over the shoulders of the men: "These are the riddles of my country." It is clear from the recording that the rest of the villagers enjoyed it very much. Riddles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957