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Kakwezhi (Field Card)
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The moon (month) in which my lover told me he would come has passed and he has not come. The story ends with an enumeration of local football wins and loss.
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Kammaraba (Field Card)
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Two topical songs. The first complains about the modern girl who will not stay at home but uses cosmetics and roams around the country doing no work. The bowl is a wooden platter commonly used for serving food, turned upside down and beaten with two sticks.
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Kanenga (Field Card)
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A player was sorry when his friend finished his food so he sat down to sing to his Chisanzhi Mbira.
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Katuiyo I (Track)
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Two versions of the song, sung on the same day and at the same place but with different leaders. The first version is unaccompanied and the second is accompanied by a Chepkongo lyre. Katuiyo was the name of the man who introduced this kind of dancing. His name also means a 'meeting place' and the lyric includes th...
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Katuiyo II (Field Card)
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Two versions of the song, sung on the same day and at the same place but with different leaders. The first version is unaccompanied and the second is accompanied by a Chepkongo lyre. Katuiyo was the name of the man who introduced this kind of dancing. His name also means a 'meeting place' and the lyric includes th...
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Katuiyo II (Track)
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Two versions of the song, sung on the same day and at the same place but with different leaders. The first version is unaccompanied and the second is accompanied by a Chepkongo lyre. Katuiyo was the name of the man who introduced this kind of dancing. His name also means a 'meeting place' and the lyric includes th...
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A Kawoko ndi ndhondo (Field Card)
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Three Mcoma dance songs for women and girls, with 2 goblet drums, one weighted and whistles (-11.515-). This dance song reflects a local tragedy. There was a certain White man, popularly called 'Kawoko', a game warden in this district, they say who had only one hand. There had been a recent campaign to shoot babo...
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A Kawoko ndi ndhondo (Track)
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Three Mcoma dance songs for women and girls, with 2 goblet drums, one weighted and whistles (-11.515-). This dance song reflects a local tragedy. There was a certain White man, popularly called 'Kawoko', a game warden in this district, they say who had only one hand. There had been a recent campaign to shoot babo...
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Kayuni ngwata (Field Card)
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This is an exhibition dance done by one or more dancers for the entertainment of the crowd. The drummers are men, friends of the solo dancer and the women of the village sing his dance song for him. His dance consists of a series of rhythmic shakes particularly from his waist down. He wears African made iron bells...
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Kayuni ngwata (Track)
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This is an exhibition dance done by one or more dancers for the entertainment of the crowd. The drummers are men, friends of the solo dancer and the women of the village sing his dance song for him. His dance consists of a series of rhythmic shakes particularly from his waist down. He wears African made iron bells...
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