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Yakonyomba

- Timoti Sadimbi, Hugh Tracey

  • 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/10962/138956 , vital:37689 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-02
  • Description: Played with 3 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.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Yalila ngololo kutwaga belega (You were praised by the man you worked for)

- Group of Tonga men and women led by Joseph Munyeme, Hugh Tracey

Zakanaka musikana e yeye (It is all right, girl)

- Jerevani Siakuteka, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Jerevani Siakuteka , 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/10962/139010 , vital:37695 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-08
  • Description: The onlookers occassionally make comments especially if they like the song. "Chabota" - good or "Play well, so that the children will listen to you." And, "I will sit all day and smoke while you play," Chief Chipepo made this last remark. The chief in these parts is addressed as "Mwami" , as in Ruanda-Urundi. Tuning of the instrument as follows: 384, 352, 316, 288, 256, 232, 208, 192 vps. Self-delectative song with Deza mbira, board and external resonator.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Zumina unditole ulibama (If toy don't love me, send me back to my mother)

- 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls, Hugh Tracey

Achicatao

- M. Makhuvela (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Ansati lwe u nganaye

- M. Makhuvela (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Elizabheta kanta Mutungameri

- M. Makhuvela (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Hakata

- M. Makhuvela (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Hayilolosa amale ye matshangana

- M. Makhuvela (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Unganzibeli akuxonga

- M. Makhuvela (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Ambia

- Fabiao Dingani Mashawa (Performer), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Dabu mutamulani

- Tonga/ Hlanguni (Performers), A. Kossa (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Eliza buya (Come Eliza)

- Tonga/ Hlanguni (Performers), T.O. Kowano (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Five songs

- Tsonga women (Performers), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Gele Gele

- Fabiao Dingani Mashawa (Performer), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Godwa aswibasanga

- Feliciano, Muntano Gomez, Gomez, F, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Feliciano, Muntano Gomez , Gomez, F , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1955
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132100 , vital:36799 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR004-01 , Field card no. 5
  • Description: "If you have no child, it is no good. Other women have children, they fill the village. There are many men here standing in the queues for going to Johannesburg. You, my wife, you do not want to eat porridge, you want rice. There is no rice here, because I am poor. Go to the rich where they can afford rice. So she went to a rich man to get her rice, but now she gets no clothes, no shoes, and at leas, no food. One of four topical songs with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1955

Hakunene

- Tonga/ Hlanguni (Performers), A. Kossa (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Handina mwana

- Fabiao Dingani Mashawa (Performer), Composer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Kokwa vo (Uncle)

- Tonga/ Hlanguni (Performers), T.O. Kowano (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Kwaya I

- Tonga/ Hlanguni (Performers), F. Mabosso (Composer), Hugh Tracey

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