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Kaiwang'u

- Ndasimi Sarubare with Arusha men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ndasimi Sarubare with Arusha men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Maasai (African people) , Songs, Maasai , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Arusha f-tz
  • Language: Masai
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174096 , vital:42440 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR154-04
  • Description: This a self praise song by boys and girls who are waiting during the Rika period prior to undergoing circumcision. The leader sings in a kind of falsetto voice which is much appreciated by the people but on a recording gives no idea of his manly appearance. The calling for a special response during the course of the recitative is typical of Arusha songs. Rika Intitiation dance song for boys and girls.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kaiwang'u

- Ndasimi Sarubare, Arusha men, Folk, Tracey, Hugh

Kaiywang'u

- Ndasimi Sarubare, Arusha men, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kalagala ebwembe

- Ntamivu za Kabaka, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ntamivu za Kabaka , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
  • Language: Ganda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170646 , vital:41945 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-06
  • Description: The tune is based upon a song which says that Kalagala was a chief in Busoga who caught and killed the Kabaka's messengers. The Kabaka sent an army in return to destroy him and his people. Feeling has always run high between the Ganda and Soga peoples, the former living on the west and the latter on the east side of the river Nile where it emerges from Lake Victoria Nyanza. The approximate sizes of the drums were:- Ntamivu, big drum, 25 inches across, 37 inches tall. Naku, medium drum, c. 14 inch head, 19 inches tall. Njongo, small drum, c. 12 inch head, 17 inches tall. Tall laced drum. c. 10 inch head, 39 inches tall. The Naku (-14.22301-) was played with the hands, the others (-14.22303-) were played with beaters. The tall drum stood beside the very large Ntamivu and both were played by one man. The tuning of the xylophone was:- 776, 688, 608, 520, 456, 388, 344, 304, 260, 228, 194, 172 v.s. This gives intervals within the octave (from 344 to 172) of 214, 271, 227, 280 and 208 cents. Two instrumental tunes with loose note xylophone and 5 drums (-14.99-), laced, conical.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kalilole

- Linilesi Sadiki with Yao girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Linilesi Sadiki with Yao girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Blantyre Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Yao
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154793 , vital:39776 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-14
  • Description: One day little boys went into the forest to play. There they found a big bird which asked them to sing a song the bird wanted to hear, so they went back to the village and consulted their parents about this. After hearing the song from the parents the little boys went back to the forest and sang the song which satisfied the big bird Kalilole. Story song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Kalimba tune

- Hugh Tracey, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kaliya-liya, ndinde kaliya

- Hannington Ngoma, Henga boys and girls, Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Kaloi

- Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Bukusu (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malakasi f-ke
  • Language: Bukusu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176527 , vital:42710 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-04
  • Description: These long armed lyres are played flat with the bowl resting on the legs or ground and the arms extending away from the players. The left hand plays the four lower notes, the right the higher three. The Luhengele is played with two pairs of double sticks, and is an inverted bowl of platter. The song recalls the bravery of Kaloi who encouraged his fellow soilders in the fight even though he himself was wounded and lying on one hip.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kaloi

- Maunda Waliaula, Bukusu men, Tracey, Hugh

Kaloi

- Waliaula, Maunda, Bukusu men, Tracey, Hugh

Kaloio

- Mutekete, Daudi, Wanga men, Folk, Tracey, Hugh

Kalulu wakama wa nyina wakhe

- Widisani Nazuku, Tumbuku men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kalulu wakawa na nyina wakhe

- Widisoni Mazuku, Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Widisoni Mazuku , Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186273 , vital:44480 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-06
  • Description: There was once a rabbit who liked dancing but used to come home late at night. His mother taught him a special song to sing so that she would know who it was and let him in. A hyena heard the rabbit singing his song and made a plan to eat up his mother. First he was unsuccessful, but later on he succeeded. The mother opened the door and he ate her up. When the rabbit came home he could hear it was not his mother who replied and he killed the hyena with his axe. Story song
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Kamano

- Akito Arap Yeko, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Akito Arap Yeko , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Mijikenda (African people) , Nandi (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapsabet f-ke
  • Language: Nandi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176853 , vital:42765 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-04
  • Description: This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, like the Bongwe Zither of Nyasaland. This gave two chords. Notes 1, 3, and 5 and notes 2 and 4. One string, they said, was missing, the lower octave of No. 1. The scale was:- 308, 256, 232, 206, 180, (154) vs. The tune comes from the Luo people in the valleys below but has had Nandi words put to it. It is a song of praise for the Nandi country and other places which the singer and his audience have visited. Topical song with Kipukandet 5 string lyre.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kamano

- Akito Arap Yeko, performer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kamano

- Akito Arap Yeko, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Akito Arap Yeko , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya City not specified f-ke
  • Language: Nandi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/298746 , vital:57738 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP2037-XYZ5472a
  • Description: Indigenous music
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Kamayo alimbaka

- Tefiro Olawo, Dhola men and women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kamenemene kanokimilembe

- Mwikuru Kija with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

Kamenemene kanokimilembe

- Mwikuru Kija, Sukuma men, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kamenemene kanokimilembe

- Kija, Murikuru, Sukuma men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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