Tuli baBemba (We are Bemba, we are good people, we do not sharpen our teeth
- Group of six Bemba men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of six Bemba men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Kasama f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135047 , vital:37230 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-03
- Description: The singers go on to say: "Be careful,we will take out your eyes." The Bamba it appears, are given to boasting. Several tribes in Central Africa file their teeth, sometimes to fine sharp points. Topical song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of six Bemba men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Kasama f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135047 , vital:37230 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-03
- Description: The singers go on to say: "Be careful,we will take out your eyes." The Bamba it appears, are given to boasting. Several tribes in Central Africa file their teeth, sometimes to fine sharp points. Topical song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Maitumbe (Rapture)
- Edmond Cileshe and his wife, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Edmond Cileshe and his wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135247 , vital:37251 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-03
- Description: "we are musicians and although some of our words sound a little romantic, our purpose is not to seduce women but to entertain everyone." Most of what he sings is in an old-fashioned Bemba and not readily translatable. The performer is blind, and has been since he was a child, going blind shortly after he learnt to walk, he said. Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Ndelema dance song-Greeting song with Mumamba mbira bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Edmond Cileshe and his wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135247 , vital:37251 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0024-03
- Description: "we are musicians and although some of our words sound a little romantic, our purpose is not to seduce women but to entertain everyone." Most of what he sings is in an old-fashioned Bemba and not readily translatable. The performer is blind, and has been since he was a child, going blind shortly after he learnt to walk, he said. Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Ndelema dance song-Greeting song with Mumamba mbira bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Fwanda-fwanda dance rhythm
- Authors: Lyson Chibuye , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Drum , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134734 , vital:37195 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-10
- Description: For this recording, the drums performed alone without the singing, but on occasion with the whistles in the background provided by the dancers. Each of the 3 drums can be heard separately with its distinctive tune, the Akanono, the Cimbulunge, and the Fwanda-fwanda, each of which has a fairly complex rhythm and tone pattern to add to the whole resultant. It would appear that the Lala style of drumming are among the most evolved in N. Rhodesia. The stick, as in common in this region adds a percussive rhythm of its own and is beaten on to the body of one of the drums adding to the general welter of sound. The rattle was an improvisation, being a small rectangular tin containing pieces of metal and not a specially constructed article. Drum rhythm with 3 conical drums and 1 stick, whistles and rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Lyson Chibuye , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Drum , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134734 , vital:37195 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-10
- Description: For this recording, the drums performed alone without the singing, but on occasion with the whistles in the background provided by the dancers. Each of the 3 drums can be heard separately with its distinctive tune, the Akanono, the Cimbulunge, and the Fwanda-fwanda, each of which has a fairly complex rhythm and tone pattern to add to the whole resultant. It would appear that the Lala style of drumming are among the most evolved in N. Rhodesia. The stick, as in common in this region adds a percussive rhythm of its own and is beaten on to the body of one of the drums adding to the general welter of sound. The rattle was an improvisation, being a small rectangular tin containing pieces of metal and not a specially constructed article. Drum rhythm with 3 conical drums and 1 stick, whistles and rattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tito, we miripwa naya kukabanga (Tito, don't imitate)
- Edward Shoni and group of 6 Aushi men., Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Edward Shoni and group of 6 Aushi men. , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
- Language: Aushi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134403 , vital:37141 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-14
- Description: An uncle says to his nephew: "Don't copy Henry and imitate his songs, but sing the songs of our forefathers." Morality song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Edward Shoni and group of 6 Aushi men. , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
- Language: Aushi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134403 , vital:37141 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0019-14
- Description: An uncle says to his nephew: "Don't copy Henry and imitate his songs, but sing the songs of our forefathers." Morality song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Abayashi bonse bati bwela (Both parents say 'Come back')
- Jackson Cabala and 3 Bemba boys, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Jackson Cabala and 3 Bemba boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:37245 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-12
- Description: All the singers were born in the Mine Compound and were brought up here. Thier chief and almost exclusive musical inspiration therfore, comes from the cinema and African town dance records from Johannesburg
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Jackson Cabala and 3 Bemba boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:37245 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-12
- Description: All the singers were born in the Mine Compound and were brought up here. Thier chief and almost exclusive musical inspiration therfore, comes from the cinema and African town dance records from Johannesburg
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Pa kufwa bata nali mwaice (When my father died, I was still small
- Authors: Kona Mofya , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134766 , vital:37202 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-14
- Description: "When my father died I was still small." He mentions that his father died in 1949. Personal lament with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Kona Mofya , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
- Language: Lala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134766 , vital:37202 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-14
- Description: "When my father died I was still small." He mentions that his father died in 1949. Personal lament with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mayo, mayo (Mother, mother)
- William Siwale and 3 friends, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: William Siwale and 3 friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Banroft f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135116 , vital:37238 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-06
- Description: "Mothers, mothers, harvest your crops." Topical song with guitar
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: William Siwale and 3 friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Folk songs, Bemba , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Banroft f-za
- Language: bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135116 , vital:37238 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0023-06
- Description: "Mothers, mothers, harvest your crops." Topical song with guitar
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957