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Mhlalo = Name of dance (Field Card)
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"Mukalenga" is the honorific name of a Chief or "Sultan" in Kanyoka. This song is played at 3 o'clock, at midnight and in the morning in order to waken the Chief. This group brought a "lumembo" a double bell with them, but did not use it. One man tapped the highest note on one xylophone with a wooden stick, whilst...
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Musambo wa mazhi (Field Card)
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This item was played after an execution was over and the head had been presented in order to restore the Sultani's spirits. The player of the female xylophone used his normal rubber-headed hand beater in his right hand to play the melody, but turned his left hand beater over and beat the tonic with the handle (Not...
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Musambo wa mazhi (Track)
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This item was played after an execution was over and the head had been presented in order to restore the Sultani's spirits. The player of the female xylophone used his normal rubber-headed hand beater in his right hand to play the melody, but turned his left hand beater over and beat the tonic with the handle (Not...
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Mutombo-ka (Track)
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This was played after an execution when the executioners brought the head of the criminal to the chief (in Kanyoka: Sultani).
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Nyambilichina twali akwawu ku Muwewu (Track)
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The Lunda or Luunda people came into the territory which is now N. Rhodesia from the Congo. They now form a group of about 50,000 east of the Luapula river. This song follows the common Lunda pattern with the chorus singing in organum. The Lunda tribe occupy the watershed fromwhich three great rivers arise: The Za...
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