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Chakunaka (Field Card)
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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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Chamukumai (Track)
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The Chisanzhi Mbira is the traditional type of the district: The basket rattle is a well-made woven article with a handle
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Chembere luimbolo (Field Card)
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The larger drum was also tapped on the side by a stick. The clapping was done with cupped hands. The Chef de Centre Kapenda, was the head of this group. Jadotville is the headquarters of the central region of the Union Miniere, the other 2 towns being Elisabethville in the East and Kolwezi in the West. It was ori...
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Chepchoni Marinda (Field Card)
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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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Chepulon (Field Card)
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The singer was a cycle repairer by trade, claimed to belong to the Njeudura age grade (his own age at the time being about 22 years in 1952). He, like other Kikuyu who buy these expensive accordians uses it as a noise maker rather than a melodic or harmonic accompaniment. As with the guitar players they rarely cha...
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Chibola mu lumbai (Field Card)
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Chibudo movement of Ngodo of Repulo Banguza 1955 Part I (Field Card)
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a, b & c) '1 his IS the first recording ever to be published of a complete Ngodo of a Chopi 'Timbila orchestra. The orchestra featured is the senior orchestra of the district, although not that of the Paramount Chief. Wani Zavala. The leader Komukomu, has been art outstanding xylophone player and composer for the...
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