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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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Bilumbu (Track)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR183 , 3 mins

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Bolo neno kari koongo (Track)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR168 , 3 mins

Bolo achieved an unenviable reputation for having neither shield nor ostrich feathers, and for being an uninvited guest at drinking parties. The playing of drums by these Nilotic people is usually far simpler in rhythm than that of the Bantu.

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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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Bugenda kilo (Track)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR147 , 3 mins

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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Caribbean Folk Music, Vol. 1

produced by Harold Courlander, 1908-1996 (Folkways Records, 1960), 1 hour 7 mins

Whether purely instrumental or with a chorus, each of these recordings manages to capture the spirit of the English, Spanish, and French speaking Caribbean. Many of the recordings are of dance music as music and dance are commonly linked in Caribbean cultures. Representing fifteen countries this collection spea...

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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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