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Ulushimi lwa mukashana ne nsupa ya mfumu (The story of the girl and the chief's calabash)

- Agnes Bwenpe and group of small girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Agnes Bwenpe and group of small girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Folk songs, Bemba , Bemba (African people) , Africa Zambia Bancroft Mine f-za
  • Language: Bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151806 , vital:39173 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR065-16
  • Description: There was once a Chief who had a favourite wife to whom he gave a calabash. Now this Chief disappeared. One day she with the calabash, she found herself sailing down the river in it, and as she sang: "Ulushimi lwa mukashana ne nsupa ya mfunu." She sailed amongst the fish, some of which wanted to eat her. But she sang to them and they let her go. Afterwards she fell amongst crocodiles. But they too let her go when she sang to them and eventually she found herself in a village and gave it to the chief and put her in a hut where she was badly bitten by insects. However she did not kill any of them, as she was a kind and gentle woman. Then the chief sent word that she must come and undergo a test. Which was to pick out her own calabash from amongst many others. As she went one of the insects said to her: "Choose that calabash you see a fly settle on." So, when she swa all the calabashes spread out before her, she waited for a fly to settle on one. It settled on the smallest and she picked it up and said: "This is mine." Whereon the chief came out of his hut and to her amazement it was her own husband who said: "Now I know this is my own wife, because she recogonizes the calabash I once gave her." Isimi story with song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umama litshipa (Mother is an absconder)

- Gcaleka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Umanga ukasilagayo

- Masudi Bini Amani with Nyamwezi women, Hugh Tracey

Umankankalaza

- Chief Buthelezi and his Tribesmen and Women (Performers), Mnyamana (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Umbala (Colour)

- Group of young Xhosa men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Xhosa men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Kentani f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150412 , vital:38973 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR060-03
  • Description: This group of "Amakwenkwe" (young unitiated men) all wrapped in red blankets, carrying sticks and wearing bead leggings, sang very well with gravity and intersity. They were all under 18 years of age. In the interval between the songs, they went off to fetch their sticks and struck them together during the song to mark the rhythm. Three group fighting song, with sticks and whistles.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umdudo (Name)

- Group of Gcaleka women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Gcaleka women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Idutywa f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150940 , vital:39019 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-02
  • Description: This song was sung on a bright sunny afternoon by 20 Gcaleka women all dressed in their ochre coloured blankets or shawls, sitting on the ground near the cattle kraal. The great open downs of the Transkei rolling away on every side to the mountains in the West and blue Indian ocean to the east. Circumcision song for the Abakweta dance with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umefika Marangu

- Yuspina Gadwin with Ghaga girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Yuspina Gadwin with Ghaga girls , 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/10962/174336 , vital:42468 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR155-11
  • Description: "You have come to Marangu." Marangu is the small village on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. The first of these songs may not be an authentic Chaga song, but is rather similiar to songs in the schools. Temo dance song for girls with stamping and bass drums, laced, played with sticks, (-14.05303-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Umfazi ohlupingane

- L. Shandu (Performer), L. Shandu (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Umfazi uyabalega (His wife has run away)

- Group of young Mpondo girls and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Mpondo girls and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Lusikisiki f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136587 , vital:37394 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR032-07
  • Description: Clapping accampanied by a rapping on the drums greeted Chief Botha whenever he appeared. Each dance song began with the boys kneeling, singing each into his cupped hand, bobbing and swaying to the rhythm whilst the girls stood nearby, exactly like in the previous item. At a given signal the boys rose and went on dancing standing up. The word "Gubura" is pronounced "GHUBUKHA" (Kh as in loch). The peculiar leopard like snarl, or cough or grunt which the Xhosa make in their throats is noticeable throughout these songs. They are very fond of making it out of context, just as an exclamation. Gubura dance for young people.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umfweni ubwite (Listen to the call)

- Members of the christian Mission to Many lands, E. Chiyanta, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Members of the christian Mission to Many lands , E. Chiyanta , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Hymns, Bemba , Africa Zambia Chingola f-za
  • Language: bemba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135394 , vital:37264 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-08
  • Description: Hymn No. 82 in the ms. hymnbook of the sect. The members of this group were Luunda, singing in Bemba. The founder of the group was an African named Law, who was originally on the staff of the local Mine Hospital. Original Separatist Hymns.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umgaq' uphum' entabeni

- Group of Baca Men (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Umgquzo (Where is my blanket? It is in the forest)

- Group of Mpondo women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Mpondo women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136370 , vital:37369 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR030-03
  • Description: This dance was performed by the married women standing in a circle. In the second part of the song they say: "The person who grinds the corn for the beer has a lot to say."- Some of the women had painted their faces with pale yellow ochre.- They wore pale blue blankets, were lavishly decorated with beads, mostly in sky blue and white, wore calf length beaded skirts, and a great many brass wire bracelets. In some cases, the typical headring was made of a leather strap (a dog's collar) studded with brass studs, edged and fringed with sky blue and white beads. Umgouzo girl's initiation dance.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Umkulumo yase kaya (Home talk)

- Efraim Hlope and three friends, Hugh Tracey

Umtagato-we! (I am held)

- The Coal Brothers (Four young Swazi youth), Hugh Tracey

Umtsha wam' uyayizulisa ingqondoyam (My lover sends me out of my mind)

- Group of young Mpondo married woman, Hugh Tracey

Umuhororo

- Tutsi men, Hugh Tracey

Umulugu wa Yakobo

- Wonkhama Sekenge with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Wonkhama Sekenge 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 , Sukuma
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173477 , vital:42375 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR151-06
  • Description: "This year we expect to have a lot of sisal and therefore a lot of money. But some of our friends will lose because the grasshoppers have eaten their grain crops." The high price of sisal this year (1950) has created a demand and the local Sukuma have been cutting their sisal hedges and getting the fibre for sale to Indian buyers. A few days after this song was sung an order had to be issued by the authorities forbidding, temporarily, the buying of sisal as the Sukuma were neglecting to harvest both their grain and cotton crops which were being left to spoil in the fields. There is a sound fo drums in the distance at the beginning of the song. Busatsi dance song form men and women.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Umushuma

- Eliasi Karuandila with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

Unali mpepara kale wadodoma ndi mfuti

- Tweleve elderly women and two drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tweleve elderly women and two drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155775 , vital:39915 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-11
  • Description: "A long time ago there was a man with a gunwho could not shoot and always missed." The failure of this hunter to bring home the meat by continually missing his quarry has been perpetuated in this song although the name of the hunter concerned has long since been forgotten. The two drums were barrel shaped, weighted, and with mirlitons (locallly called Mvema). Chitsukulumwe dance with 2 horizontal double ended barrel drums, rattles and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Undebulisele ku Lungwengwe (Give my best wishes to Lungwengwe, also to your mother)

- Group of young Mpondo married women, Hugh Tracey

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