Anyanori, anyanori paramwa pasa tiki
- Authors: Composer not specified , Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka/Henga women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134100 , vital:37072 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-10
- Description: The gift of a small coin such as a threepenny bit indicates, they expalined, an affection for the young man asking for it from the girl.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Bemu tuvoni memba
- Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134064 , vital:37067 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-06
- Description: "When you drink beer, it sparkles and tingles against your tonsils! When the beer is ready you must send a boy round to tell your friends."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Cheyu chamunganda
- Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Wedding music , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134109 , vital:37073 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-11
- Description: The song is used as a walking song, when on the way to some festivity like a wedding, as well as a hunting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Chitima wajumbo
- Authors: Composer not specified , Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134090 , vital:37071 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-09
- Description: It appears from what the singers explained, that this Chief Jumbo took the train one day in Nyasaland and the occasion being so unusal for the Chief in whose district no railway lines exist, that it merited a song in his honour.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Cin'goma ca kubaruka
- Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134028 , vital:37061 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-02
- Description: The song is about a man who brought his drum to a party. Unfortunately someone put his foot through it, and thereafter it produced some very strange noises which the leader imitates in the course of the song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kamudyanga
- Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134037 , vital:37063 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-03
- Description: A man asked his wife for some monkey nuts and she refused to give them to him. One day he hid himself and found the pot where she kept them and ate them all. Whe she discovered this, she reproached him and said: "Why didn't you ask me, I would have given them to you." "Ah, said the man, but when I asked you the first time you refused."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kayuni
- Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134019 , vital:37060 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-01
- Description: The song is about the long-tailed widow-bird who found it impossible to manage his long tail when he tried to settle on a perch. The leader makes a series of strange sounds representing the great difficulty the small bird is having in trying to balance itself. The bird in question is the long-tailed paradise bird
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kupura kupika na kuldya nakundewa
- Authors: Composer not specified , Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka/Henga women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Livingstonia f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134082 , vital:37070 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-08
- Description: This is one of the songs sung when a girl is being instructed in her domestic and wifely duties by one of the elder women of the village.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mungate tamara
- Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134046 , vital:37064 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-04
- Description: The song is supposed to be sung by the fore-fathers of the tribe, who say: "We still know how to drink!" In the song, the leader was Smart Chigwamba.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mwariwa toca ku Henga
- Authors: Composer not specified , Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka/Henga women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Livingstonia f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134073 , vital:37068 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-07
- Description: The raft rattles are made from sections of stout dried grass stalks with beans or other seeds inside. They are held between the palms of the hands and swung to and fro, the thumbs or her fingers hitting the rattles at the end of the swing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ng'eng'e kumatengele
- Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134051 , vital:37065 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-05
- Description: The song is about a woman who has gone to market and left her child shut up in the house, and the noise it makes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Sekelele tawona tengwa ipya
- Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Wedding music , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134118 , vital:37074 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-12
- Description: The song is used as a walking song, when on the way to some festivity like a wedding, as well as a hunting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tayamba kumba vifya, tamu Chifila
- Authors: Oxendale Mateu Nkata , Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184949 , vital:44291 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-16
- Description: The style of this song appears to arise from the popular Malipenga dance which derives much of its colour from European taught melodies. Topical song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957