Mumabale chonga (That one is my friend)
- 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/10962/138154 , vital:37600 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-05
- 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/10962/138154 , vital:37600 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-05
- 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
Atuwendi kumanzi ntwende kumulonga tukateke menda (Go to the river, go to draw water.Let us get water)
- 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.
- 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/10962/138117 , 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Gomusanza warira pongo
- 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/10962/138961 , vital:37690 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-03
- 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/10962/138961 , vital:37690 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-03
- 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
Kayuni Tolo wakawona kwenda nzira (Have you seen the bird Tolo when it goes on its way)
- Group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: 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/10962/138234 , vital:37613 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-11
- Description: The owner of the new canoe, whose name was Kayuni Tolo, was standing by while this song was sung. This Kayuni Tolo is a bird, they said, which comes out in the evening. A bigger bird od similar variety is called "Kariorio". It has not been identified, but may possibly be either the night jar or the owl of which there are considerable numbers in the valley. Canoe launching song (Bgwato-canoe).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: 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/10962/138234 , vital:37613 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-11
- Description: The owner of the new canoe, whose name was Kayuni Tolo, was standing by while this song was sung. This Kayuni Tolo is a bird, they said, which comes out in the evening. A bigger bird od similar variety is called "Kariorio". It has not been identified, but may possibly be either the night jar or the owl of which there are considerable numbers in the valley. Canoe launching song (Bgwato-canoe).
- 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/10962/138044 , vital:37587 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-08
- Description: The names of the drums from small to large are: Gogogo, Chamutanda, Muntundu, Pininga and Pati. The drums set the pace of the rhythm, then the horns begin. Each man or boy blows one horn and interpolates his note as he pleases while he dances a jig to and fro among the close knot of hornblowers. The result is a loud and cheerful noise devoid of any melody with everyone, men, women and children shouting, singing and whistling as they shuffle to the impulse of the drumming. The hornblowers at first held ther free hand to an ear, presumably to help them establish their own contribution to the mass sound. 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/10962/138044 , vital:37587 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-08
- Description: The names of the drums from small to large are: Gogogo, Chamutanda, Muntundu, Pininga and Pati. The drums set the pace of the rhythm, then the horns begin. Each man or boy blows one horn and interpolates his note as he pleases while he dances a jig to and fro among the close knot of hornblowers. The result is a loud and cheerful noise devoid of any melody with everyone, men, women and children shouting, singing and whistling as they shuffle to the impulse of the drumming. The hornblowers at first held ther free hand to an ear, presumably to help them establish their own contribution to the mass sound. Funeral dance song with ensemble of Nyele end-blown antelope horns and Ngoma drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Takundambi kumulumi wako (Never mention me to your husband)
- Blakufus Simukolo and "White" Korio, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Blakufus Simukolo and "White" Korio , 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/10962/138279 , vital:37617 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-15
- Description: "I cannot marry a Luvale girl, or a Shona, because they put on ties. Their only duty is to cut grass, therefore I cannot marry a woman like that." Both singers were full of good beer. Two notes. 416 and 228 vs. Instrument stopped by the left thumb pressed against the longer section of the string at approximately 3 inches from the straining wire. Party song with Kalumbo bow. One-stringed, gourd resonated, struck with reed.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Blakufus Simukolo and "White" Korio , 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/10962/138279 , vital:37617 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-15
- Description: "I cannot marry a Luvale girl, or a Shona, because they put on ties. Their only duty is to cut grass, therefore I cannot marry a woman like that." Both singers were full of good beer. Two notes. 416 and 228 vs. Instrument stopped by the left thumb pressed against the longer section of the string at approximately 3 inches from the straining wire. Party song with Kalumbo bow. One-stringed, gourd resonated, struck with reed.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndwimo lwa mutetere(Flute tune)
- Mwami Sinefwala Mukuli, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mwami Sinefwala Mukuli , 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/10962/138460 , vital:37639 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-11
- Description: The flute was 6 feet long, and was made of the section of an old bicycle pump. Walking song. (Also self-delectative after work), with Mutetere transverse flute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Mwami Sinefwala Mukuli , 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/10962/138460 , vital:37639 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-11
- Description: The flute was 6 feet long, and was made of the section of an old bicycle pump. Walking song. (Also self-delectative after work), with Mutetere transverse flute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mulala syanangoma valikuyalalika (A poisonous snake came and rubbed itself against me)
- Siachema and his friends, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Siachema and his friends , 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/10962/138243 , vital:37614 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-12
- Description: "The mulala (a poisonous snake) came and rubbed itself against me and next morning I found I was suffering from sores. Then I told my father to go to the diviner. The diviner said: "Go and dig up some roots of chingwele (a plant)". Then the old woman, when she went to draw water at the river said: "I don't like Siachema." I would like to know why she said this." Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 592, 528, 480, 432, 400, 356, 320, 296, 264, 240 vps. Topical song with fan-shaped Kankowela mbira, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Siachema and his friends , 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/10962/138243 , vital:37614 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-12
- Description: "The mulala (a poisonous snake) came and rubbed itself against me and next morning I found I was suffering from sores. Then I told my father to go to the diviner. The diviner said: "Go and dig up some roots of chingwele (a plant)". Then the old woman, when she went to draw water at the river said: "I don't like Siachema." I would like to know why she said this." Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 592, 528, 480, 432, 400, 356, 320, 296, 264, 240 vps. Topical song with fan-shaped Kankowela mbira, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Karubgwerubgwe kone agwari (I will sleep on a stone)
- 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/10962/138017 , vital:37584 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-05
- 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/10962/138017 , vital:37584 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-05
- 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
Ngano zwano twokuruma (The story of the people who were digging)
- Authors: Jobi Chaliwepa , 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/10962/138526 , vital:37646 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-04
- Description: The response is "Kalanga-ti". The burden of this story is that a certain man with only one testicle could not walk like other men, but walked with a limp on account of his physical peculiarity. Story with song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Jobi Chaliwepa , 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/10962/138526 , vital:37646 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-04
- Description: The response is "Kalanga-ti". The burden of this story is that a certain man with only one testicle could not walk like other men, but walked with a limp on account of his physical peculiarity. Story with song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tomujayi muntu mwana mwanike angu (Don't kill anyone, my brother's son)
- Siachema and his friends, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Siachema and his friends , 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/10962/138099 , vital:37593 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-14
- Description: "If you kill someone; you will go to prison at Gwembe. They will bring ropes to tie your hands and feet. What has tempted you to kill people? You must think of what I'm telling you now." Tuning of the instrument:- 592, 528, 480, 432, 400, 356, 320, 296, 264, 240 vps. Morality song with Kankowela mbira, fanshaped, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Siachema and his friends , 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/10962/138099 , vital:37593 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-14
- Description: "If you kill someone; you will go to prison at Gwembe. They will bring ropes to tie your hands and feet. What has tempted you to kill people? You must think of what I'm telling you now." Tuning of the instrument:- 592, 528, 480, 432, 400, 356, 320, 296, 264, 240 vps. Morality song with Kankowela mbira, fanshaped, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mayanze
- Group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: 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/10962/138406 , vital:37633 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-05
- Description: The drum called here called Gayanda is similar if not identical to the one called Musuntu which is used for the Makundu dance. The reason for this variation in naming was not explained. Mayanze drinking songs with a Gayanda drum, hand beaten, the Gayanda being conical, single, open, pegged with 3 sticks tapped on the side of the drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: 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/10962/138406 , vital:37633 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-05
- Description: The drum called here called Gayanda is similar if not identical to the one called Musuntu which is used for the Makundu dance. The reason for this variation in naming was not explained. Mayanze drinking songs with a Gayanda drum, hand beaten, the Gayanda being conical, single, open, pegged with 3 sticks tapped on the side of the drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Chembere luimbolo (Old people, here is a song)
- Authors: Notis Chukwa , 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/10962/139113 , vital:37706 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-16
- Description: This song was recorded in the shade of a large tamarind tree outside the village of Sinefwala. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Notis Chukwa , 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/10962/139113 , vital:37706 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-16
- Description: This song was recorded in the shade of a large tamarind tree outside the village of Sinefwala. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Malala (The powerful back)
- 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/10962/138143 , vital:37598 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-03
- 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/10962/138143 , vital:37598 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-03
- 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
Sigorira (Who is crying)
- Authors: Mangwato Penge , 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/${Handle} , vital:37693 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-06
- Description: The singer was an old man. Self-delectative song with Kankobela mbira, fan-shaped, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Mangwato Penge , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:37693 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-06
- Description: The singer was an old man. Self-delectative song with Kankobela mbira, fan-shaped, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Walianzi sunu Gengere (Where did you eat Gengere)
- Group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: 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/10962/138386 , vital:37629 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-04
- Description: Bugande drinking song with 1 Muntundu drum, hand beaten.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: 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/10962/138386 , vital:37629 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-04
- Description: Bugande drinking song with 1 Muntundu drum, hand beaten.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kwerekwere munga, kwerekwere musamu (Pull, pull the munga-tree, pull, pull the rollers)
- Group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: 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/10962/138225 , vital:37611 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-10
- Description: Two singers were doing a pantomime of pulling a canoe over the sand. The munga tree is the one used for making canoes and appears to be the tamarind which grows to a considerable height and girth in the alluvial soils near the Zambezi and its small tributaries in the valley. In this part of the valley, very few canoes are used and they are not large: 20-30 feet only. Canoe launching song (Bgwato-canoe)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: 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/10962/138225 , vital:37611 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-10
- Description: Two singers were doing a pantomime of pulling a canoe over the sand. The munga tree is the one used for making canoes and appears to be the tamarind which grows to a considerable height and girth in the alluvial soils near the Zambezi and its small tributaries in the valley. In this part of the valley, very few canoes are used and they are not large: 20-30 feet only. Canoe launching song (Bgwato-canoe)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Bamwioka mwana anku angu (You have taken my chicken and roasted it)
- Samson Mwetwa and group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Samson 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/10962/138423 , vital:37635 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-07
- Description: A chicken is supposed to be a fine antidote for a hangover, on the morning after a drinking party. So it is a most serious thing to be deprived of one's sure remedy in this way. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Samson 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/10962/138423 , vital:37635 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-07
- Description: A chicken is supposed to be a fine antidote for a hangover, on the morning after a drinking party. So it is a most serious thing to be deprived of one's sure remedy in this way. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndwano siya mani zuminina ngoma ye
- Group of 8 Tonga men and boys, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of 8 Tonga men and boys , 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/10962/139126 , vital:37707 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-17
- Description: This story was enacted as well as told with much vigour. It appears to be based on the theme of the child imprisoned in a drum by a wicked old musician - a story which is well known on the south of the Zambezi throughout S. Rhodesia as the story of "Mikunda wa serewa" and in other versions. Story with song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of 8 Tonga men and boys , 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/10962/139126 , vital:37707 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-17
- Description: This story was enacted as well as told with much vigour. It appears to be based on the theme of the child imprisoned in a drum by a wicked old musician - a story which is well known on the south of the Zambezi throughout S. Rhodesia as the story of "Mikunda wa serewa" and in other versions. Story with song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Luano lwawi sisiyala wagere (The story of a man who coveted his son's beautiful wife)
- Group of small Tonga girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of small Tonga 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/10962/138517 , vital:37645 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-03
- Description: The old woman to whom the hut belonged, in which this story was recorded, was smoking her hubble-hubble pipe just behind the children. Her old husband sat beside her, over the fire, smoking his pipe which was made of a hollow cane sem bowl with the base shaped like an animal. This story contains a common theme found in many other places-that is wrong for an elderly man to marry out of his age group and covet younger women. Story with songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Group of small Tonga 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/10962/138517 , vital:37645 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-03
- Description: The old woman to whom the hut belonged, in which this story was recorded, was smoking her hubble-hubble pipe just behind the children. Her old husband sat beside her, over the fire, smoking his pipe which was made of a hollow cane sem bowl with the base shaped like an animal. This story contains a common theme found in many other places-that is wrong for an elderly man to marry out of his age group and covet younger women. Story with songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957