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Wamurwe

- Waliaula, Maunda, Bukusu men, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Waliaula, Maunda , Bukusu men , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950-09-11
  • Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya City not Specified f-ke
  • Language: Bukusu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/230581 , vital:49794 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2453 , XYZ5487
  • Description: Fighting song accompanied by 2 Litungu 7 string lyres and 1 Luhingele long inverted bowl
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950-09-11

Wamurwe

- Waliaula, Maunda, Bukusu men, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Waliaula, Maunda , Bukusu men , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950-09-11
  • Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya City not Specified f-ke
  • Language: Bukusu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/230571 , vital:49793 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2453 , XYZ5486
  • Description: Personal feud song accompanied by 2 Litungu 7 string lyres and 1 Luhingele long inverted bowl
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950-09-11

Kaloi

- Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Bukusu (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malakasi f-ke
  • Language: Bukusu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176527 , vital:42710 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-04
  • Description: These long armed lyres are played flat with the bowl resting on the legs or ground and the arms extending away from the players. The left hand plays the four lower notes, the right the higher three. The Luhengele is played with two pairs of double sticks, and is an inverted bowl of platter. The song recalls the bravery of Kaloi who encouraged his fellow soilders in the fight even though he himself was wounded and lying on one hip.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Kaloi

- Maunda Waliaula, Bukusu men, Tracey, Hugh

Kaloi

- Waliaula, Maunda, Bukusu men, Tracey, Hugh

Khakulu namuninya

- Mutekete, Daudi, Wanga men and women, Folk, Tracey, Hugh

Ligari

- Wasiole Waliaula with Bukusu men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Wasiole Waliaula with Bukusu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Bukusu (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malakasi f-ke
  • Language: Bukusu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176499 , vital:42707 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-01
  • Description: "The railway made it easier for people to travel and for goods to be brought into our country." The two strings of the lute were tuned to 256 vs. and 196 vs. giving an interval of 462 cents. There is little melody in this item. It is more of a recitation to a ground. Topical song, with Sihilili 2 string lute and piece of Iron (-12.16-).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Ligari

- Waliaula, Maunda, Bukusu men, Tracey, Hugh

Nalungunyo

- Waliaula, Maunda, Bukusu men, Tracey, Hugh

Nalungunyo

- Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Bukusu (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malakasi f-ke
  • Language: Bukusu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176535 , vital:42711 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-05
  • Description: Nalung'unyo was a quarrelsome wife who insisted that her husband divorce all his other wives and keep her only. Instead he divorced her as she was troublesome. The two singers occasionally imitate the sound of the lyre strings. Topical song, with Litungu 7 string long lyres, and 1 Luhengele inverted bowl (-12.151-).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Nalungunyo

- Maunda Waliaula, Bukusu men, Tracey, Hugh

Polan

- Serebu, Paul, Nandi boys, Folk, Tracey, Hugh

Shundu na wamukoya

- Mukanda, Jeremiah, Wanga men and women, Tracey, Hugh

Wachonge

- Maunda Waliaula, Bukusu men, Tracey, Hugh

Wachonge

- Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Bukusu (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malakasi f-ke
  • Language: Bukusu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176518 , vital:42709 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-03
  • Description: The song recalls a notable fight between the Bukusa and the Burwa tribes at Wachonge. The Bukusa were the victors. This area of Northern Nyanza was the scene of many tribal fights between the ten or more small tribes which settled there. The song they claimed was sung in a mixture of languages, including Luo and Swahili in a addition to Bukusu. Fighting song, with 2 Litungu 7 string lyres, and 1 Luhingele long inverted bowl (-10.151-).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Wachonge

- Waliaula, Maunda, Bukusu men, Tracey, Hugh

Wamurwe

- Maunda Waliaula, Bukusu men, Tracey, Hugh

Wamurwe

- Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Bukusu (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malakasi f-ke
  • Language: Bukusu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176508 , vital:42708 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-02
  • Description: This song is about a one man raid by Wabomba in order to get cattle for himself. He stole them from Mamurwe who was left with none. It was explained by the singers that poor Wabomba had no milk before his raid on Mamurwe and that his folk are cattle loving people. No one, it seems, wasted any sympathy on the loser. Personal feud, with 2 Litungu 7 string lyres, and 1 Luhingele long inverted bowl (-10.151-).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Wamurwe

- Waliaula, Maunda, Bukusu men, Tracey, Hugh

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