Dance songs with drums from the Valley Tonga people of Zambia
Various Artists
Lozi/Subiya people, Namibia. Silimba xylophone played by Mr. Mului, accompanied by Milupa drums.
Photograph by Cecilia Geldenhuys, June 1981. Courtesy of the Windhoek Museum and ILAM.
Hugh Tracey recorded these dance songs with drums in 1957 from the Valley Tonga people of Gwembe District in the Zambezi Valley of Zambia, then called Northern Rhodesia.
Track Listing
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101
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Mobai | Group of Tonga women | 3:01 | |
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102
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Ngoma | Group of Tonga men and women | 3:13 | |
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103
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Muzemu | Balizi ba Milopa | 2:55 | |
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104
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Yalila ngololo kutwaga belega (You were praised by the man you worked for) | Joseph Munyeme with group of Tonga men and women | 3:52 | |
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105
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Ndaboola oko (I'm on my way there) | H.G. Habanyama with group of Tonga men | 3:22 |
Album Info
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