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Iya weni pambalama (Who is that across the river coughing?)

- Group of young Bemba girls, Hugh Tracey

Jabeni

- Group of Tonga men and women, Hugh Tracey

Kabula nina kamushalila (I have no mother)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Aushi , Lamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140076 , vital:37830 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-05
  • Description: 'I have no mother. No matter what I do, whether I pray or whatever I do, I am alone." The singer is a wandering performer who earns his living by singing popular songs of his own composition which give him plenty of scope to introduce local gossip between verses. He is assisted by 2 or 3 friends who share his bohemian life wandering from compound to compound along the Copperbelt. His songs, though often rhythmic, are frequently based upon the slightest of melodies as in this case. This song is sung partly in the local Lamba language - Although Tsotsi Kasumali himself is an Aushi. Lament with guitar and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kakashimbi nkumuye mu s/c 5 ulucelo (The girl I met in section 5 this morning)

- C. Filimba and P. Kosimasi, Hugh Tracey

Kalikambo? (What is the cause?)

- Group of Tonga men and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Tonga men and girls , 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/10962/138572 , vital:37651 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-08
  • Description: The dancers would come out in pairs, man and girl, dance together for a while opposite each other and then retire to make way for others. Mankuntu dance song for men and women with 2 goblet drums beaten by sticks, and 1 Kayanda conical drum played with hands.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kanakazibulu

- 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/10962/138966 , vital:37691 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-04
  • Description: Played with 4 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

Kapokola na ku Kitwe naitundika (A certain policeman of Kitwe)

- 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/10962/140163 , vital:37841 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-13
  • Description: " A certain man of Kitwe joined the police force because he did not want to pay his tax, and hoped to evade payment in this way." "Kapola naku Kitwe naitunduka Atina msonko kwa lesa ukapya." Humorous song with guitar and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Karikambo? (What shall I do?)

- Masaria and other Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Masaria and other Tonga women , 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/10962/138148 , vital:37599 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-04
  • Description: This song were taken during the actual grinding of millet into meal outside a hut. The millet was a fine brown variety known as Munga in Rhodesia. This small work song is sometimes well known by everyone in the village and commonly used by the women as they grind their corn on the stone outside their hut, or they are individual compositions without a name and with few words to the lyrics. Grinding song accompanied by the sound of grindstone.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Karikambo? (What shall I do?)

- Masaria and other Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Masaria and other Tonga women , 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/10962/138137 , vital:37597 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-02
  • Description: This song were taken during the actual grinding of millet into meal outside a hut. The millet was a fine brown variety known as Munga in Rhodesia. This small work song is sometimes well known by everyone in the village and commonly used by the women as they grind their corn on the stone outside their hut, or they are individual compositions without a name and with few words to the lyrics. Grinding song accompanied by the sound of grindstone.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Karubgwerubgwe kone agwari (I will sleep on a stone)

- Group of Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Tonga women , 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/10962/138017 , vital:37584 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-05
  • Description: The only headdress the women wear is a simple band or string round the head and passing over the forehead. They wear a few strings round their neck occassionaly. Their dress mainly consists of a short knee-length skirt and sometimes a bodice. They sometimes wear a good many copper or brass anklets. Skins are still worn as a covering for the upper part of the body. The men have no special dress, just the usual collection of tattered shirts, shorts and trousers. The implication of the second song is: "Now I am married, I don't know where I'm going to; I may have to sleep any where, perhaps in a tree, perhaps on a stone. Marriage song.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kaso Bia wasapwisha Bantu (Because of Castle beer, people go naked)

- B. Cungu and F. Musonda, Hugh Tracey

Kawala milonga kalila kate (The ferry men are complaining about the Zambezi being in flood)

- Segareti Chirumpu, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Segareti Chirumpu , 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/10962/139001 , vital:37694 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-07
  • Description: When the Zambezi is in flood the ferry men cannot paddle their canoes across. They do this ferrying to help people across but we are told, are not paid for their services. Self-delectative song with Kankobela mbira, fan-shaped, external resonator and mirliton.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kayuni Tolo wakawona kwenda nzira (Have you seen the bird Tolo when it goes on its way)

- Group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Tonga men , 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/10962/138234 , vital:37613 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-11
  • Description: The owner of the new canoe, whose name was Kayuni Tolo, was standing by while this song was sung. This Kayuni Tolo is a bird, they said, which comes out in the evening. A bigger bird od similar variety is called "Kariorio". It has not been identified, but may possibly be either the night jar or the owl of which there are considerable numbers in the valley. Canoe launching song (Bgwato-canoe).
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kela menda bakela milonga (The one who measures the water)

- Tonga women led by Maria Musange, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tonga women led by Maria Musange , 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/10962/138053 , vital:37588 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-09
  • Description: This, they said, was called "clapping for rain" and is only performed by the women. It is sung at a special ceremony held at the local rainshrine in time of drought - usually December or January. It is obligatory for everyone to attend, but if anyone should fail to do so, they must bring the person in charge of the ceremony (who is appointed by the Chief and is called Sikatongo), either a pure black goat, a black hen or black beads. Rain song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ki mangi ya uawize mali (Who stole the money?)

- Group of Lozi men, Hugh Tracey

Kugiga

- Samsoni Mwetwe and group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

Kujeya shiankori umparuti (Kill the wild pig and cook him on the fire)

- Mangwato Penge, Hugh Tracey

Kulangula-ka

- Kiposho, Hugh Tracey

Kule-kule kuwincherera bena bangu (Far - far away, I get the food to feed my children)

- Tenesi Muntanga and Panisi Mwetwa and group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

Kulene mamama ndaimbirira, nikawa kapongo ndaimbirira (From far, mama, I sing. Give me a goat)

- Tenesi Mutanga and Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tenesi Mutanga and Tonga men , 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/10962/138288 , vital:37619 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-16
  • Description: In many African tribes the travelling entertainer or mendicant is a familiar figure, playing an instrument and dancing. He is usually rewarded with food and small presents and makes no bones about asking for them. Mendicant's song with sound of feet and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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