Browse Titles - 9 results
Chimangala mangala (Track)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR093 , 3 mins
Here is one of the rare references to cannibalism in southern Africa where it was not frequently practiced. "Tiyeni Achimangala Mangala yiyeni, panangokhala mamuna Wina, anafunsa chikwati panudzi, asanpite kumunda Anafuna kudya. Yye akapita kumunda sanati Kobwera nsanga nkazi akaphika nsima anali Kudyera kumunda,...
Sample
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR093 , 3 mins
Description
Here is one of the rare references to cannibalism in southern Africa where it was not frequently practiced. "Tiyeni Achimangala Mangala yiyeni, panangokhala mamuna Wina, anafunsa chikwati panudzi, asanpite kumunda Anafuna kudya. Yye akapita kumunda sanati Kobwera nsanga nkazi akaphika nsima anali Kudyera kumunda, mwana akafika anali kunfunsa, Waphika nsengwa pakudye anali kudya nki mbale Zomwe pamodzi nki mwana yemwe." (as written). "Let us go, A...
Here is one of the rare references to cannibalism in southern Africa where it was not frequently practiced. "Tiyeni Achimangala Mangala yiyeni, panangokhala mamuna Wina, anafunsa chikwati panudzi, asanpite kumunda Anafuna kudya. Yye akapita kumunda sanati Kobwera nsanga nkazi akaphika nsima anali Kudyera kumunda, mwana akafika anali kunfunsa, Waphika nsengwa pakudye anali kudya nki mbale Zomwe pamodzi nki mwana yemwe." (as written). "Let us go, Achimangala Mangala, let us go. There was a man who asked a woman to marry him. This man used to eat before going to the garden to hoe, and so when he went hoeing he always came back late. A boy used to come and bring him food in the garden and she would ask the boy " how many plates of food have you brought?" this happened frequently and last of all he ate not only the food but the plates and the boy as well. Now people, when they went look for the boy found nothing, and the man had vanished also as he was a cannibal.
Show more
Show less
Date Written / Recorded
1958
Field of Study
World Music
Content Type
Field recording (raw)
Contributor
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Author / Creator
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the International Library of African Music. Copyright International Library of African Music.
×
Cinan’gomba (Track)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR079 , 5 mins
A child hunting mice dug a hole and found an eagle inside. The bird told him not to tell his mother that he had found him. As the boy was on his way home the bird sang his song. When he met his mother she asked him why the bird was singing. The boy answered "Because I dug it out." The mother chased the bird until...
Sample
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR079 , 5 mins
Description
A child hunting mice dug a hole and found an eagle inside. The bird told him not to tell his mother that he had found him. As the boy was on his way home the bird sang his song. When he met his mother she asked him why the bird was singing. The boy answered "Because I dug it out." The mother chased the bird until it was tired, so she caught it and killed it. S "Cinang'omba cinang'omba coyaya ine, CH. Siico cinang'omba. S. Mwanawe, usakanene kwa a...
A child hunting mice dug a hole and found an eagle inside. The bird told him not to tell his mother that he had found him. As the boy was on his way home the bird sang his song. When he met his mother she asked him why the bird was singing. The boy answered "Because I dug it out." The mother chased the bird until it was tired, so she caught it and killed it. S "Cinang'omba cinang'omba coyaya ine, CH. Siico cinang'omba. S. Mwanawe, usakanene kwa amako kuti yaye Cimbalame ca banga pa msana ye CH. Siico cinang'omba." "There is the eagle, there is the eagle. You, child, do not tell your mother that you have seen the eagle with spots on his back."
Show more
Show less
Date Written / Recorded
1958
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field recording (raw)
Contributor
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Author / Creator
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the International Library of African Music. Copyright International Library of African Music.
×
Itlanganiso ya magqiha ye Izangoma (I) (Track)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR022 , 8 mins
Extracts from the proceedings at the first conference of Izangoma Diviners, to be held in Umtata, Transkei. The speech and songs were entirely impromptu and demonstrate the type of speech employed by such herbalists and their supporting singers or assistants.
Sample
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR022 , 8 mins
Description
Extracts from the proceedings at the first conference of Izangoma Diviners, to be held in Umtata, Transkei. The speech and songs were entirely impromptu and demonstrate the type of speech employed by such herbalists and their supporting singers or assistants.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field recording (raw)
Contributor
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Author / Creator
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the International Library of African Music. Copyright International Library of African Music.
×
Itlanganiso ya magqika ye Izangoma (II) (Track)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR022 , 15 mins
Led by Dangazela and by Nowinjile Sincabo his wife. Dangazela is the son of Chief Bota the paramount chief of Lusikisiki. This recording demonstrates the procedure adopted by herbalists and diviners at their meetings and healing ceremonies -- the music and speeches helping to create an atmosphere of serious contem...
Sample
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR022 , 15 mins
Description
Led by Dangazela and by Nowinjile Sincabo his wife. Dangazela is the son of Chief Bota the paramount chief of Lusikisiki. This recording demonstrates the procedure adopted by herbalists and diviners at their meetings and healing ceremonies -- the music and speeches helping to create an atmosphere of serious contemplation and thereby assisting in the cure of the patient.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field recording (raw)
Contributor
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Author / Creator
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the International Library of African Music. Copyright International Library of African Music.
×
Itlanganiso ya magqika ye Izangoma (III) (Track)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR050 , 16 mins
Nowinile is the wife of L. S. Khontsiwe, the 'President' of the African National Herbalist Dokhtors Association.
Sample
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR050 , 16 mins
Description
Nowinile is the wife of L. S. Khontsiwe, the 'President' of the African National Herbalist Dokhtors Association.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field recording (raw)
Contributor
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Author / Creator
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the International Library of African Music. Copyright International Library of African Music.
×
Kaliya-liya, ndinde kaliya (Track)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR190 , 3 mins
There was once a man who used to work very hard from sunrise till sunset out in his fields. His wife used to cook many different kinds of food and as soon as it was ready she would send her young son to go out to the fields to call his father. This he did by singing him a song each time, when the father would stop...
Sample
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR190 , 3 mins
Description
There was once a man who used to work very hard from sunrise till sunset out in his fields. His wife used to cook many different kinds of food and as soon as it was ready she would send her young son to go out to the fields to call his father. This he did by singing him a song each time, when the father would stop working and come home.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field recording (raw)
Contributor
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Author / Creator
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the International Library of African Music. Copyright International Library of African Music.
×
Pfeni nengoma (Track)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR176 , 3 mins
Story of the baboon who kept on jumping on and off a drum till he died. There was a man who had the brilliant idea of putting a pole across the path by which a baboon entered his fields, and a drum on the far side. The baboon leaping over the pole landed on the drum and did a back somersault over the pole again. T...
Sample
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR176 , 3 mins
Description
Story of the baboon who kept on jumping on and off a drum till he died. There was a man who had the brilliant idea of putting a pole across the path by which a baboon entered his fields, and a drum on the far side. The baboon leaping over the pole landed on the drum and did a back somersault over the pole again. The sound so delighted the baboon that he went on the leaping and back somersaulting until he died of exhaustion.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field recording (raw)
Contributor
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Author / Creator
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the International Library of African Music. Copyright International Library of African Music.
×
Talking drums of the Upper Congo (Track)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR129 , 13 mins
This recording of the sound of genuine talking drums was made on the banks of the Congo River near Stanleyville, where the river steamers coming up-stream from Leopoldville, 1000 miles away, are held up by the first rapids named after H. M. Stanley, the great explorer. He first saw them in 1876 on his famous first...
Sample
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR129 , 13 mins
Description
This recording of the sound of genuine talking drums was made on the banks of the Congo River near Stanleyville, where the river steamers coming up-stream from Leopoldville, 1000 miles away, are held up by the first rapids named after H. M. Stanley, the great explorer. He first saw them in 1876 on his famous first journey across Africa from East to West. The Lokele people of this region have always been famous for their drum messages. Stanley, wr...
This recording of the sound of genuine talking drums was made on the banks of the Congo River near Stanleyville, where the river steamers coming up-stream from Leopoldville, 1000 miles away, are held up by the first rapids named after H. M. Stanley, the great explorer. He first saw them in 1876 on his famous first journey across Africa from East to West. The Lokele people of this region have always been famous for their drum messages. Stanley, writing about them said "They have not yet adopted electric signals but possess a system of communication quite as effective. Their huge drums by being struck in several parts convey language as clear to the initiated as vocal speech." The drum messages can still be heard up and down the River although now-a-days with modern communication methods the people do not need to use their drums as they used to, and consequently it is said to be dying out, as so many other African crafts. A missionary, the Rev. John Carrington, from the Baptist Mission at Yakusu wrote an excellent book on these Lokele drums that Stanley heard. For years he had been studying the Lokele language of the people around the mission at Yakusu, but at the time of recording he was many miles down the river, and not available. His colleague from the Yakusu Mission, Mr. W. H. Ford, who had also made a keen study of the language, here explains something of the theory behind the sending of drum messages in central Congo, as experienced by both himself and by John Carrington.
Show more
Show less
Date Written / Recorded
1952
Field of Study
World Music
Content Type
Field recording (raw)
Contributor
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Author / Creator
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the International Library of African Music. Copyright International Library of African Music.
×
Wasepuka na mbuzi (Track)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR190 , 4 mins
There was once a pair of twin boys who were herding their goats. They decided to try to find out which was the fatter and so they cut each other's stomach open to find out. The second twin died from the wound. A bird saw all this and went to tell their parents. When questioned the other twin lied saying that the s...
Sample
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR190 , 4 mins
Description
There was once a pair of twin boys who were herding their goats. They decided to try to find out which was the fatter and so they cut each other's stomach open to find out. The second twin died from the wound. A bird saw all this and went to tell their parents. When questioned the other twin lied saying that the second twin had been gored by a goat. Thereupon the people took the twin and killed him too for killing his twin brother. (The story was...
There was once a pair of twin boys who were herding their goats. They decided to try to find out which was the fatter and so they cut each other's stomach open to find out. The second twin died from the wound. A bird saw all this and went to tell their parents. When questioned the other twin lied saying that the second twin had been gored by a goat. Thereupon the people took the twin and killed him too for killing his twin brother. (The story was not fully finished on the record.
Show more
Show less
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field recording (raw)
Contributor
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Author / Creator
Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the International Library of African Music. Copyright International Library of African Music.
×