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Bangihleba Otshwaleni

- Thwalofu, Thwalofu and his concertina, Composer not specified, Recordist not specified

Hayo ni maradhi (Chaupela mpenzi)

- Chipukizi Rumba, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chipukizi Rumba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwanza f-tz
  • Language: Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179613 , vital:43124 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-07
  • Description: A typical local band from the African quarter of any Tanganyika townships of the early 1950's. Nobody plays quite in tune but that does not worry the audiences or more especially the players themselves. They pick up their melodies from each other and from gramphone records and a dozen or more variations of the same song can be found throughout the country. Swahili Rumbas with 2 Banjos, 1 Mandoline, 2 bass drums, 1 conical drum, laced, 2 kazoos, 2 whistles and a flute.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Hayo ni maradin

- Leader Abdala Ibrahim, Tracey, Hugh

Hayo ni maradin

- Leader Abdala Ibrahim, Tracey, Hugh

Kariaara (Slow motion)

- Shinda Kamwana, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Shinda Kamwana , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Kikuyu , Kikuyu (African people) , Songs, Kikuyu--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kiamuthambi f-ke
  • Language: Kikuyu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175590 , vital:42597 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR159-14
  • Description: The button accordian has recently (1952) made its appearance in this area and largely on account of its ease of playing and the great amount of sound emitted, it has become very popular as an accompanying instrument. Most players are content to use only the simplest chords and as few notes as possible regardless of the melody of the song which the instrument accompanies rhythmically. For the recording the man with his piece of iron and box had to be placed a considerable distance from the microphone. Mamboko dance with accordian and struck iron (-12.16-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

March of the Shoeshine Boys

- L. Mayues, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mawaidha

- Kaluta Amri Bin Abedi, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mawaidha

- Kaluta Amir Bin Abedi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kaluta Amir Bin Abedi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kigoma f-tz
  • Language: Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179415 , vital:43061 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-05
  • Description: "With the name of the Lord I should begin. And with his name I should finish. That I may compose them evenly with good things exultingly." Much of the Mashairi poetry, they say, is religious in nature. The African authors demonstrate the extent to which Arab culture has penetrated along the old trade routes. The speaker was fluent in Arabic and his Swahili appears to be more 'classical' than usual. Mashairi sung poems
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mkhema ye (My love)

- Tatu Binti Juma with "Ngoma ya udi.", Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tatu Binti Juma with "Ngoma ya udi." , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Ngambo f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172878 , vital:42291 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-20
  • Description: This song shows an adaptation of Nyamwezi African words to an Arab foreign tune. The distortions of Bantu speech tones appear to be less pronounced than in similar adaptations of local words to European tunes. The Nyamwezi peoples were for centuries closely associated with Arab traders and were the carriers of their trade goods into the interior from Bagamoyo on the coast to the lake at Ujiji. They also acted as carriers for most of the famous East African explorers including Livingstone and Stanely. Love song, with one Udi, Arab guitar, one Mandoline and one Tambourine drum (-14.91-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mkhima ye

- Tatu Binti Juma, Ngoma ya Udi, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mkhima ye

- Tatu Binti Juma, Ngoma ya Udi, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mzimba uz'o phela

- Natal Champions, Chibanda, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Nane yalakanite ifigolofu nda ng’ombe

- Pancras Mkwawa and son, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Pancras Mkwawa and son , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Hehe (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Iringa f-tz
  • Language: Hehe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174807 , vital:42511 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR156-08
  • Description: The instrument was re-tuned for this song at a slightly higher pitch than for some of his other songs. The singer is a member of the ruling house being an uncle of the present (1950) paramount chief of the Hehe tribe - Adam Sapi Mkwawa. The Ligombo is a long thin trough zither, 40 inches long with a large resonating gourd at the playing end which is cleverly attached to the body of the zither by means of a looped string over the trough and passed down through the base of the gourd. At that end of the loop there is a short stick which twists up the loop until it is taut. A skin washer with the hair side towards the gourd acts as a spring washer and prevents unwinding. Heroic song with Ligombo 6 string trough zither and rhythmic tapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nane yalakonite ifigolofu nda ngombe

- Pancras Mkwana and son, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Nani Mukhabi

- Anselm P. Mkwama, Paneras, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ngoma ya Shirilo

- Feliciano Gomes, Gremio Civil Chaimite, Tracey, Hugh

Ngula kidunda

- Pancras Mkwawa and Anselm P. Mkwawa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Pancras Mkwawa and Anselm P. Mkwawa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Hehe (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Iringa f-tz
  • Language: Hehe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174834 , vital:42514 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR156-09
  • Description: "People should not visit their friends without cause as Mgelimembe does." It appears this man Mgelimembe was always turning up at his friend's houses when it would have been better had he stayed away. This is only part of the musical ruminations of the song. The players eighteen year old son sits beside his father and provides the rhythmic tapping with his fingernails on the zithers large gourd resonator. Topical song, with Ligombo 6 string trough zither and rhythmic tapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ngula kidunda

- Pancra Mkwawa, Anselm P. Mkwawa, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ngula kudunda

- Makwawa, Paneras, Anselm P. Makwawa, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ngwa Kidunda

- Anselm P. Mkwama, Paneras, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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