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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...
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of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR176 , 3 mins
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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.
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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...
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of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR129 , 13 mins
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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.
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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.
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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...
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of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR190 , 4 mins
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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.
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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.
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