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Bilumbu (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR183 (1952) , 1 page(s)

The singers of this item had come north, down the Lualaba River and were over 400 miles from their home in Kongolo, near the junction of the Lualaba with its tributary which drains the overflow flood waters from Lake Tanganyika. This simple repetitive song is similar to many others associated with divination -- th...

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Bugenda kilo (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR147 (1950) , 1 page(s)

You are too fond of visiting villages in search of women. One day you will meet an angry man who will hit you.'

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Chakunaka (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR190 (1950) , 2 page(s)

This story, told by an old woman, of the handsome young man and his jealous mother is almost identical with a similar story I found amongst the Karange of S. Rhodesia in 1932.

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Chepchoni Marinda (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR164 (1950) , 1 page(s)

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.

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Chibola mu lumbai (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR183 (1957) , 1 page(s)

The solo part of the leader is answered by four long stanzas, or lines of verse by the chorus.

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Chila twachinda naba matombo (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR179 (1952) , 1 page(s)

A song for Chief Kazembe, also used as a canoe song. These chidlren demonstrate a typically Luunda organum style fo singing.

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Ching’ombe Kulowa, 1st movement (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR192 (1950) , 1 page(s)

The dancers were composed of about 50 young men from the ages of 10 to 20 years. Three dancers pranced in front. A notable feature was the large buttefly bows tied onto the top of the heads of several of the dancers.

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Chinyau (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR192 (1950) , 2 page(s)

"I'll go to Zomba to dance Jir with my friend Mailole." The girls clap the first four beats in the bar.

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Chitengi (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR180 (1950) , 2 page(s)

"Black cloth may not be worn by a woman who is about to have a child, she may use any other coloured cloth but not black." Such simple sentences revealing local etiquette are quite enough to inspire a local dance song. The Chokwe are more renowned for their beautiful chip carving than for their music -- much of it...

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Citawala 2nd movement (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR192 (1950) , 1 page(s)

A good example of Malipenga playing and dancing. This is the opening movement of the dance. The word Muganda which is the name of this dance is taken from the sound of the drums which accompany the singing gourds. "Men and women, togeher with the chief, you have come here to see the clever dancers. We come from to...

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