Akaizari mbanda yasila (The Mbanda dance is finished)
- Authors: Group of 4 Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Petanke f-za
- Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137501 , vital:37531 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-07
- Description: The dance song is sung to wind up the evening and to show the dancing is at the end. Mbanda dance song with Malaza leg rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Chundalala chawona mwezi (The moon was already up and the ants were gone)
- Authors: Group of 4 Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
- Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137483 , vital:37529 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-05
- Description: The meaning behind the title is that the singer was too late to catch any flying ants, which usually swarm at dusk. By the time the moon was up, the ants had closed their bodies again and there were no ants to catch. Mbanda dance song with Malaza leg rattles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kwaca milombe kalingilila (Now the sun is rising, I must go into the bush and cut trees)
- Authors: Group of 4 Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
- Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137492 , vital:37530 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-06
- Description: The leg rattles are made out of the hard shell fruit of the Vitanta tree. It is an edible fruit which is picked when ripe, boiled in a pot and then the seeds are extracted through a small hole at the spot where the stem joins the fruit. It is then dried. A number of pin head size holes are made in the sides "to let the sound out" , they say, a second hole is made opposite the stem hole and the shell are then filled with canna seeds or small stones and strung onto sticks. Four rows of shells of about 6-8 each are needed to make one leg rattle which is attached to the calf of the leg by two straps, one below the knee and the other at the ankle. Mbanda dance song with Malaza leg rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Liya kumuchoma wa kanga (Without Liya the dance is not a success)
- Authors: Group of 4 Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
- Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137474 , vital:37528 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-04
- Description: The song is sung while dancing, the action of the feet is used to create an accompanying rhythm on the Malaza leg rattles. Mbanda dance song with Malaza leg rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957