A sante mwe
- Authors: 4 Tumbuka boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Henga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza, Mzimba District f-rh
- Language: Tumbuka/Henga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156329 , vital:39977 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-14
- Description: "A Sante-you! We have come to count up. Pumpkins, Cucumbers. We have come to count up." This is a song from a story about monkeys which used to come regularly to Sante's garden to eat his crops. After he died the monkeys mourned him as they would then have nothing left to eat. Like most African stories, this one appears to offer the obvious moral. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: 4 Tumbuka boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Henga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza, Mzimba District f-rh
- Language: Tumbuka/Henga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156329 , vital:39977 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-14
- Description: "A Sante-you! We have come to count up. Pumpkins, Cucumbers. We have come to count up." This is a song from a story about monkeys which used to come regularly to Sante's garden to eat his crops. After he died the monkeys mourned him as they would then have nothing left to eat. Like most African stories, this one appears to offer the obvious moral. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kamukando (The small spear)
- Authors: 8 Tumbuka boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Henga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza, Mzimba District f-rh
- Language: Tumbuka/Henga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156318 , vital:39976 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-13
- Description: "The small spear de-de (is broken). The small spear 'Mazira'. Mother is calling de-de, the smal spear Mazira." There would appear to be a double meaning behind the simple songs of which, no doubt, the young singers were innocent. Drinking son with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: 8 Tumbuka boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Henga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza, Mzimba District f-rh
- Language: Tumbuka/Henga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156318 , vital:39976 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-13
- Description: "The small spear de-de (is broken). The small spear 'Mazira'. Mother is calling de-de, the smal spear Mazira." There would appear to be a double meaning behind the simple songs of which, no doubt, the young singers were innocent. Drinking son with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Para vilipo (If there is anything left)
- Authors: 8 Tumbuka boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Henga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza, Mzimba District f-rh
- Language: Tumbuka/Henga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156309 , vital:39975 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-12
- Description: "If there is any left at all, give to a stranger." A drinking song with a genuine ring. What hope had the stranger, an outsider of getting a share. Drinking son with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: 8 Tumbuka boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Henga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza, Mzimba District f-rh
- Language: Tumbuka/Henga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156309 , vital:39975 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-12
- Description: "If there is any left at all, give to a stranger." A drinking song with a genuine ring. What hope had the stranger, an outsider of getting a share. Drinking son with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
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