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Bwana Shanua kidzhere nguma inende

- Kanga Mayele with Giryama men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kanga Mayele with Giryama men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Giryama (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malindi f-ke
  • Language: Giryama
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176630 , vital:42722 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-13
  • Description: Bwana Shanua was an old singer famous in his day for inventing Juba dance steps. In this song they praise the old man for his cleverness. The facination of the Juba dance lies largely in the syncopated clapping which goes with it. Juba dance for men and women.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Chebo moire

- Hat Arap Kotut and Kipsigis men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Hat Arap Kotut and Kipsigis men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapkatet f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177598 , vital:42837 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR165-07
  • Description: This song were sung in the old days after raiding parties when the Kipsigis would go out to steal cattle of neighbouring tribes. The men singing these songs held tall, well made assegais of Masai type, and wore large ostrich feather head-dresses, oval in shape like collars, suspended from chin to the tip of the head at an oblique anglw. It was raining hard at the time and the songs had to be recorded in a thatched shed which did not help the singers and somewhat dampened their voices. Old fighting song.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Chebusit

- Kinutit Arap Ngasura, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kinutit Arap Ngasura , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapkatet f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:42780 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-14
  • Description: The solo singer singing in falsetto praises his country and many of its desirable places. He mentions among others the administrative centre at Kericho, some 25 miles away, which he says is ;full of words' referring to the information service supplied to the country by the office of the district commissioner. This wishbone shaped frame lyre is held onto the top of an empty 4 gallon parafin tin. At the end of his song the lyre slipped off its resonator. Praise song with Kibugandet 5 string wish bone lyre (-10.6405 x 5-) resonated on a parafing tin.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Chemelil

- Teituk Arap Sumeiyot and Kipsigis men, Hugh Tracey

Chemelildo

- Teituk Arap Sumeiyot and Kipsigis men, Hugh Tracey

Chemirocha I

- Bekyibei Arap Mosonick with Cherwo Arap Korogorem, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Bekyibei Arap Mosonick with Cherwo Arap Korogorem , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapkatet f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177011 , vital:42781 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-15
  • Description: The main theme of this song is affection for the Kipsigis country. He also asks 'why the white men should have taken over the country' which incidentally they themselves took from others in the past. He comes, he says, from the Sotik nearby. The name 'Chemirocha' is their pronounciation of 'Jimmy Rodgers' whose gramophone records were the first to be heard in the district. It is now synonymous for anything strange or new. Praise song with Chepkong 6 string bowl lyre.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Chemirocha II

- Charondet Arap Ng'asura and Kipsigis men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Charondet Arap Ng'asura and Kipsigis men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Sotik f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177032 , vital:42784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-16
  • Description: Chemirocha the mystical singer, 9based on Jimmy Rodgers the American guitarist) is at Kericho, they say. 'Why'. He is said to have visited a friend of his at Ituna! The similarity of the two instruments, the guitar and the local lyre has given rise to the legend of this wandering player whose records have been heard but whose presence is a mystery. The young men having sung this version of Chemirocha said that it was really their sisters' song, but they were too shy to sing it. Eventually the girls were persuaded to sing and gave us the next version.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Chemirocha III

- Chemutoi Ketienya with Kipsigis girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chemutoi Ketienya with Kipsigis girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Sotik f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177056 , vital:42785 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-17
  • Description: The mysterious singer and dancer, Chemirocha has been turned into a local god pan with the feet of an antelope, half beast, half man. He is urged by the girls to do the leaping dance familiar to all Kipsigis so energetically that he will jump clear out of his clothes. The name Chemirocha is based upon the guitarist Jimmy Rodgers. Humourous song, with Chepkong 6 string bowl lyre.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Chemirocha III

- Chemutoi Ketienya with Kipsigis girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chemutoi Ketienya with Kipsigis girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Sotik f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177045 , vital:42786 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-17
  • Description: The mysterious singer and dancer, Chemirocha has been turned into a local god pan with the feet of an antelope, half beast, half man. He is urged by the girls to do the leaping dance familiar to all Kipsigis so energetically that he will jump clear out of his clothes. The name Chemirocha is based upon the guitarist Jimmy Rodgers. Humourous song, with Chepkong 6 string bowl lyre.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Chepchoni Marinda

- Malakwen Chepsaikut, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Malakwen Chepsaikut , 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/10962/176824 , vital:42762 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-02
  • 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. Praise sone with Kipukandet 5 string lyre.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Chepconi Marinda II

- 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/10962/176905 , vital:42770 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-07
  • Description: The Nandi, like the Kipsigis their relatives, are given to singing praise songs about people and places familiar to them and beloved by all. This is an example of such a song in which people, places and chiefs all come in for approbation and appreciation. Praise song with Kipukandet 6 string bowl lyre.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Chepkirui

- Teituk Arap Sumiyot, Hugh Tracey

Cheptim

- Kipterer Arap Kenik with Kipsigis men and girls, Hugh Tracey

Chepulionit

- Paul Serefu with Nandi boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Paul Serefu with Nandi boys , 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/10962/176809 , vital:42761 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-01
  • Description: The Chemelilit dance for young men is performed at night as a general entertainment. The present dance song is a traditional one and was used in the old ways before going out to raid neihbouring tribes after which they felt they were fit to accomplish anything they set themselves to do. It was sung by the raiding party sitting down, but is now solely as a dance. Chemelilit dance song for young men.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Chepulon

- Kiplakat Arap Tanui, Hugh Tracey

Chief Gidion Magak

- Omolo Ogado with Luo men, Hugh Tracey

Chief Gidion Magak

- Daudi Otuoma, Hugh Tracey

Elija

- Joshua Omwami and John Manyasi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Joshua Omwami and John Manyasi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Bunyore f-ke
  • Language: Luya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176554 , vital:42714 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-07
  • Description: The lyre was played horizontally with the right hand plucking the group of four strings and near the bridge. The left hand extended to pluck the group of 3 strings near the crossbar. The scale was:- 416, 352, 304, 268, 248, 232, 208 vs. The lyre is used more as a rhythmic base rather than melodic instrument, though the player can and indeed frequently does play the melody. Praise song, with Litungu lyre, 7 string leg bells and gourd rattle (-12.54-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Gari yangu

- Jaji Simba with Giryama men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Jaji Simba with Giryama men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Giryama (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kaloleni f-ke
  • Language: Giryama
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176563 , vital:42715 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-09
  • Description: "My love has left me and I am sad. But it does not matter for she stayed with me for a long time, and I thank her for her kind heart." The Msego dance when performed by experts, either young people or children, is among the most attractive in East Africa. Msego dance song for men and women with Kayamba raft rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ho - Jambo Bwana

- Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony with Kipsigis men, Hugh Tracey

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