Were
- Authors: Zaka Shawa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180372 , vital:43357 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-05
- Description: The Songano Souls (Mashawi) are the guardians of the parental instinct in both men and women. They are said to be the most important of all the souls. They represent the affection for children on the part of both parents. The traditional instrument with which to honour the Masongano souls in this part of panpipes of which there are very few left. The player, a very old man holds the panpipes in one hand and a gourd rattle in the other. This brief recording of less than half a minute's duration may be one of the best echoes of a faith which believed in the virtue of the sound of the panpipes as a devotional exercise. Tune for the Songano Mashawi with Mikwati Wenyere (Pan pipes) and Hosho (rattke).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Zaka Shawa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180372 , vital:43357 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-05
- Description: The Songano Souls (Mashawi) are the guardians of the parental instinct in both men and women. They are said to be the most important of all the souls. They represent the affection for children on the part of both parents. The traditional instrument with which to honour the Masongano souls in this part of panpipes of which there are very few left. The player, a very old man holds the panpipes in one hand and a gourd rattle in the other. This brief recording of less than half a minute's duration may be one of the best echoes of a faith which believed in the virtue of the sound of the panpipes as a devotional exercise. Tune for the Songano Mashawi with Mikwati Wenyere (Pan pipes) and Hosho (rattke).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Whistling Language
- Didmas Murigwa and Muyapi Mutema, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Didmas Murigwa and Muyapi Mutema , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Umtali f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180547 , vital:43400 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-13
- Description: The second small boy, in the whistling item with words, sometimes forgot to whistle the full sentence as he was so carried away by his own repartee. This recording was taken eighteen months later than the previous item. There is first a whistling conversation between two small boys about ten yards apart, and then another conversation ith spoken explanations of the sentences whistled. They bandy small boy's ruderies at each other, hence the laughter from the others. The recording is somewhat marred by tape echo.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Didmas Murigwa and Muyapi Mutema , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Umtali f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180547 , vital:43400 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-13
- Description: The second small boy, in the whistling item with words, sometimes forgot to whistle the full sentence as he was so carried away by his own repartee. This recording was taken eighteen months later than the previous item. There is first a whistling conversation between two small boys about ten yards apart, and then another conversation ith spoken explanations of the sentences whistled. They bandy small boy's ruderies at each other, hence the laughter from the others. The recording is somewhat marred by tape echo.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Zainyanyatoko
- Authors: Muchuru Zhou , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180520 , vital:43397 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-10
- Description: The story of a woman who was driven away from the village as they said she was a 'witch' and her husband too rude. The common name for a person whose behaviour or presence is a cause of offence to the others in the community was a 'witch' as used in the mediaeval sense. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Muchuru Zhou , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180520 , vital:43397 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-10
- Description: The story of a woman who was driven away from the village as they said she was a 'witch' and her husband too rude. The common name for a person whose behaviour or presence is a cause of offence to the others in the community was a 'witch' as used in the mediaeval sense. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Ziriya (The stone trap)
- Saimoni Mashoka, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Saimoni Mashoka , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Buhera f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180203 , vital:43332 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-09
- Description: A dance tune associated with the Mashawi souls ritual which forms an important part of the spiritual concepts of the tribe. Song for Mashawi dance, with 29 note Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Saimoni Mashoka , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Buhera f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180203 , vital:43332 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-09
- Description: A dance tune associated with the Mashawi souls ritual which forms an important part of the spiritual concepts of the tribe. Song for Mashawi dance, with 29 note Njari (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Zuwa rawira mukaiwe (The sun is setting, wake up)
- Muchuru Zhou with a man and woman, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Muchuru Zhou with a man and woman , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180501 , vital:43395 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-08
- Description: There was, once upon a time a baboon who was walking in amongst the hills and found plenty of fruit. Matamba ('Kaffir oranges', strychnos spinosa). He ate a great many and went to sleep on the path, full to the brim. Presently an old woman who was collecting firewood came along and said "My child, why are you sleeping on the path like this?" He did not reply. So she said, "Wake up, the sun is setting." He said, "I don't want to, I am full." Then he said "Come here and listen to my song". So she came near and the baboon sang his song. "The sun is setting, wake up, wake up! Ha-hey-ha, old woman! She makes me laugh. I have discovered this hill here. Which is full of fruit, so I go here and there, eating my fill and laughing." Now when he had finished singing, he woke up, got up and followed the old woman all the way to her home. Son story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Muchuru Zhou with a man and woman , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180501 , vital:43395 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-08
- Description: There was, once upon a time a baboon who was walking in amongst the hills and found plenty of fruit. Matamba ('Kaffir oranges', strychnos spinosa). He ate a great many and went to sleep on the path, full to the brim. Presently an old woman who was collecting firewood came along and said "My child, why are you sleeping on the path like this?" He did not reply. So she said, "Wake up, the sun is setting." He said, "I don't want to, I am full." Then he said "Come here and listen to my song". So she came near and the baboon sang his song. "The sun is setting, wake up, wake up! Ha-hey-ha, old woman! She makes me laugh. I have discovered this hill here. Which is full of fruit, so I go here and there, eating my fill and laughing." Now when he had finished singing, he woke up, got up and followed the old woman all the way to her home. Son story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Zuwa woye
- Manyika Highlanders (group of singers at St. Augustine's Mission, Penhalonga), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Manyika Highlanders (group of singers at St. Augustine's Mission, Penhalonga) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Mutasa f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180708 , vital:43605 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-13
- Description: "The sun, the sun! The drumming pleases the people." A threshing song of a style heard in most Shona villages in the late autumn. As it was raining at the time it was recorded inside one of the school rooms, the singers on the floor in imitation of the sound of threshing. Threshing song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
- Authors: Manyika Highlanders (group of singers at St. Augustine's Mission, Penhalonga) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Mutasa f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180708 , vital:43605 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-13
- Description: "The sun, the sun! The drumming pleases the people." A threshing song of a style heard in most Shona villages in the late autumn. As it was raining at the time it was recorded inside one of the school rooms, the singers on the floor in imitation of the sound of threshing. Threshing song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951