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Mwehanensu ifitala

- Group of Aushi boys, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Bantamba fituka

- Kabamba, Adamsoni, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Kabamba, Adamsoni , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-08
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
  • Language: Lala-Bisa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/239004 , vital:50682 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT477-L98 , Research no. L2O8
  • Description: Self delactative song with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira with external resonator accompaniment.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-08

Fyalila banuta Kapyanga

- Mtemberwa, James, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Mtemberwa, James , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-07
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mulfulira f-za
  • Language: Lala-Bisa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/237855 , vital:50560 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT473-L94 , Research no. L2N4
  • Description: Topical song with Kankowele mbira, fan shaped, with external resonator and mirliton acompaniment.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-07

Maiyo ewandaile kufwalu chikwembe

- Matafwani, Isaac, Sunkutu, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Bena Kazembe Balitumpa

- Kalunga, Edward, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kulilandila

- Kunda, Mbasela, Munyanda, William, Tracey, Hugh

Malomile

- Group of Sotho women, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Tandabala (wa lala na mubwa)

- Group of Lozi men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Group of Lozi men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-05-17
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Wankie Colliery f-rh
  • Language: Lozi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/230671 , vital:49804 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT442-L63 , Research no. L2A18
  • Description: Indigenous folk song for girls' initiation, with singing accompanied by a guitar, a bottle struck with a nail, and a tin disk struck with a piece of wood.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-05-17

Mjinana

- Women of Kalana location, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Benoni

- The blue notes, Alexander, Olive, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: The blue notes , Alexander, Olive , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-04-29
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/227595 , vital:49465 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT384-J5 , Research no. L1C7
  • Description: A topical song about a girl wanting to leaving home accompanied by saxophone, trumpet, guitar and piano .
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-04-29

Ndinochema amasebe

- Sitole, Simon Mafiru, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

"Kulilandile." (Crying)

- M. Kunda (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Abafazi pandle (Women should go outside the hut)

- Group of Gcaleka men and women, Hugh Tracey

Ari Nkumbula na Katilungu balishamyondo (Nkumbula and Katilungu sound the calling drum)

- Group of 11 Aushi men, Hugh Tracey

Bamgufya ba kwoti bana pengili amapa (I have got white hair)

- John Lushi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: John Lushi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Lake Bangwelu f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140152 , vital:37840 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-12
  • Description: "Tungusa chipembele mwela mucalo tungusa bali twamba bali naka muchalo chabene." "I have got 'white hair with wings' in a strange world but I am sorry that I am very fat and cannot fly." The meaning of this appears to be that the singer is a stranger in a strange land, with no friend and nowhere to go. The phrase 'white hair with wings', they say, is local saying or proverb. Wistful song with guitar and bottle.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Bantamba fituka (The magician)

- Adamsoni Kabamba, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Adamsoni Kabamba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Instrumental music , Mbira music , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134666 , vital:37188 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-05
  • Description: A certain wizard, so the story goes, once caught a secretary bird and brought it into his house alive in order to use it for magical purposes and for killing other people. Now, this man soon died and left this secretary birf behind. So he sings this song to mock who use magic because they will surely die, just the same. :There are foolish men who leave their families unprovided for while they go off with prostitutes." "There is sadness which envelopes a child when its parents die, and a sadness also which envelopes a parent when its child dies." Self-delectative song with Kankowele fan-shaped mbira, mbira with external resonator.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Bena Kazembe balitumpa

- Performer not specified, Edward Kalunga (Composer), Hugh Tracey

Benoni

- Olive Alexander, Russel Planga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Olive Alexander , Russel Planga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135992 , vital:37324 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR027-11
  • Description: The soloist was Olive Alexander, the girl says:- "My mother doesn't like me, my father only cares for the cattle he will get for my lobola, my brother never brings me any clothes. So I will go to Benoni and stay with the Sotho and Zulu, I'll make friends there and life will be much gayer." Topical song with dance band.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Donga kuchikongwelo

- Kalochi Malidi and friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kalochi Malidi and friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Mbunda (African people)--Zambia , Luvale (African people) , Luchazi (African people) , Chokwe (African people) , Folk songs, Chokwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kabompo f-za
  • Language: Mbunda , Subiya , Luvale , Luchazi , Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:44180 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR184-10
  • Description: The music of the region which included, a part of north western Northern Rhodesia, Southern Congo and Angola is quite distictive on account of the melodic structure and local sense of harmony. No Bantu other than the group of tribes which inhabit this small area care for Luchazi music, rejoicing it utterly as incomprehensible. The tuning of the Chisanzhi was:- 512, 424, 388, 348, 320,276, 256 vs. The array of notes or reeds was set out four a side and the sequence of the scale was alternate from left to right. The two outside reeds being the same pitch 512 vs. This arrangement is convenient for playing the runs as heard in this recording, with alternating thumbs. Nyakasanga dance song, with Chisanzhi Mbira, of 8 notes, wax weighted, double whistle
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Fyalila banuta Kapyanga (How Kapyanga's wife wept)

- James Mtemberwa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: James Mtemberwa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia) , Topical songs , Africa Zambia Serenje f-za
  • Language: Lala
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134761 , vital:37201 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0021-13
  • Description: Kapyanga's wife went to the mine shaft head and there she saw am ambulance. She wept, thinking that it may be her husband who had been injured underground, but it was not so." Topical song with Kankowele mbira, fan-shaped mbira, with external resonator
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957
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