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Chanta andidaine kaya (God is punishing me)

- Bifi Phiri and friend, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Bifi Phiri and friend , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Pemba f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158954 , vital:40244 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-14
  • Description: "God is punishing me because all my relatives are dead, and I am left alone." "I met a woman along the road whose teeth were as white as rice." The words of these two songs as written may have been interchanged. The tuning of the Bangwe Board Zither was; 400, 380, 368, 332, 312, 284, 200. Self delectative song with board zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Chifundo chamanga (I long for my mother)

- Samson Zimba, Hugh Tracey

Chitako Bitileshi (Beatrice's thighs)

- Joey Ngwira, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Joey Ngwira , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasengu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156876 , vital:40060 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-09
  • Description: The Pango (Bango or Bangwe) is the instrument most commonly found throughout Nyasaland. Here the local dialect changes the more usual Bangwe to Pango and sometimes Pangwe. I was strummed with a swaying of the fingers. "Oh! the thighs of Beatrice. I could not sleep well last night." Self delectative song with board zither (Pango).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Coka coka Nate (Go to Nate)

- Four girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Four girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Ncheu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160079 , vital:40381 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-12
  • Description: There was once a certain man who took his wife to his home. Later on he got tired of her and he started to turn her away saying, "Go, go back to your home." "No" she said, "I must have a child before I go home and what is more you have not bought me any clothes to go dancing tsaba-tsaba." Pounding song, pestle and mortar.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Dongo-Dongola (The Clay child)

- Children of Salima Government school, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Children of Salima Government school , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Salima f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160143 , vital:40392 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-19
  • Description: "A woman who had no child went to the 'doctor' who gave her medicine to make a child out of clay. He warned her that the child should never get wet. When it had grown up it was playing outside one day when the rain came. The mother quickly climbed onto an anthill and called the child 'Dongola. Dongola'! (clay). But the child got wet in the rain and when it came to the mother and she tried to pick it up it just melted away." This story which illustrates the intense desire of every African woman to have a child of her own is found in several parts of Africa. I first heard it in Southern Rhodesia among the Karanga of the Bikita district. In other socities the same instinct is frequently sublimated with pets or adoptions. Story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Gunde (Gunde and the crocodile)

- Kezia Chilumpha and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kezia Chilumpha and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160251 , vital:40426 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-10
  • Description: "Gunde, yes, who is the man brave enough to take the 'wife' of the crocodile. There was once a certain woman who killed her only child and buried her outside the hut. After a while only the skelton remained and the rain fell and washed away the earth, exposing a leg. A crocodile nearby dug up all the bones joined them together and made another child out of them. "Who has done this" the woman cried. Now the child grew up with the crocodile and became a beautiful girl. So the mother sang. "Who is brave enough to take my daughter from the crocodile." No one in the village was brave enough so the crocodile kept his girl from himself. The mother continually came to the lake to sing for her daughter. One day the daughter heard her mother and as the crocodile was away she came out and went with her to the village. But the crocodile came and begged for the girl as he himself had brought her up and given her life. The mother could not refuse him and so the daughter went back to the lake and married the crocodile. Nthano story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ine ndaleka sanje (I have left my jealousy)

- Mugizi Mware, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mugizi Mware , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159997 , vital:40365 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-03
  • Description: The first wife of a certain man was jealous of the younger wife. The husband was arguing with her but she replied that she had indeed put jealousy behind her in the hut of her children. Her children were in fact her consolation. "I left my jealousy in the house of my son. Come and kneel, I have left my jealousy. Lament with Karigo one string bowed lute.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ine ndikumbira (I am envious)

- Women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158927 , vital:40241 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-11
  • Description: Two dance tunes with the minimum of melodic inspiration to evoke the dance. The bass drum was beaten by two women, one on each side of the drum opposite each other. "I am envious of my friends wearing evening dress."Andiloko from the Afrikaans word Aandrok. Dance tune with bass drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Inu A Nambewe, inu A Phiri (You Nambewa, you Phiri)

- Five elderly Chewa men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Five elderly Chewa men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160242 , vital:40425 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-09
  • Description: After singing their song they tap their bamboo friction sticks and laugh and blow into the ends of the bamboos. A widow has to put string into her hair for two years after the husband dies, to mourn for him. The wicked old man is egging on the widow to be merry again. When this recording was played to some villagers in a nearby district, the Chief Njolomole was specially delighted to hear the blowing down the bamboo tubes at the end of the performance, an old drinking party custom, it appeared. "You Nambewa, you Phiri (two widows). Have you already taken off your mourning strings before you have finished mourning for your husband. You A Nabetha, and you A Naketha?" Drinking party dance song. Umkwenda with friction sticks.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Jelemani nkhondo (The German army)

- Children of Salima Government school, Hugh Tracey

Kacaso wabotolo (Spirits from the bottle)

- Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chewa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160043 , vital:40374 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-08
  • Description: The simple facts of life like the 'hotness' of chillies or the strength of liquor is quite enough to establish a dance melody. The women of this region appear to have a distinctive and separate musical life. "Brandy from the bottle I do not drink because I find it too hot for me." Chillies are sometimes added to the drink as flavouring. Kacaso, it was explained, meant any strong drink and from the women's point of view this also included bottled beer. Chintala dance.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kalulu nkulu wa bwalo (The Rabbit is Chief of the Court)

- J. W. Gwengwe and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: J. W. Gwengwe and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160188 , vital:40417 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-03
  • Description: The dance is performed only at night by young men, the pricipal dancers themselves dancing naked, some with special masks called Nyau in the shape of an antelope, an elephant, and a lion, while some walk on stilts. The larger masks are usually carried by two men. Some observers have said that the dance is connected with fertility rites. Only males are permitted to participate and women can only observe from a distance. The dance, they say is usually performed on bright moonlight nights. The gist of the song appears to refer to a familiar story which is told and sung in the district. "Rabbit is the chief of the court (of animals) Hopping, hopping. The rabbit was elected to be the chief." Dance song for Nyau dance with rhythmic clapping and struck iron (-12.16-).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kalulu nthawi ya cilala (Rabbit in the time of drought)

- J. W. Gwengwe and Chewa boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: J. W. Gwengwe and Chewa boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160205 , vital:40419 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-05
  • Description: There was once a time of drought and all the animals gathered together to find water. They deceided that rabbit would be able to find water for them. The rabbit told them that water would be found under the Msendekere tree. So the animals all gathered there and were all digging together. Eventually they got down to the water. They were all delighted and in gratitude they said they should make Kalulu the Rabbit their chief. "A big chief like Kachere himself", a chief over a large district. So rabbit was made chief and all the animals joined in a song of praise, each one making his own kind of noise. The lion roared, the hyenas laughed, the snakes hissed, the cattle lowed, the crocodile grunted, the zebra brayed, the elephant trumpeted and the sheep bleated. They all joined together in a heavy voice of praise. Nthano story song with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kamwana kamjomba (My uncle's child)

- Young Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Kantengo (The tree)

- Muzize Mwane, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Muzize Mwane , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160025 , vital:40371 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-06
  • Description: "The tree that is in my father's garden has spoiled my dance. My friends, I worry too much about this tree spoiling my dance. Father, you have spoiled my dance with the tree you cut down in your garden." The Gule dance, they say, is done with masks. Dance song for Gule dance (Zinyau mask dance) with Karigo one stringed bowed lute.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kaphika (Kaphika left his mother crying)

- Samson Zimba, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samson Zimba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasengu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156856 , vital:40058 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-08
  • Description: What Kaphika the child of Masiye had done to make his mother cry is not certain. Some said he had gone away from home for a long time. "Kaphika the child of Masiye has left his mother crying." The tuning of his Zither was:- 432, 408, 368, 340, 308, 276, 244. The intervals used by stopping alternate strings would be 278, 315, 306, 360, 403 cents. Self delectative song with board zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Keke, keke garuyo 1 (Yap, yap, the dog barks)

- Four elderly Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Four elderly Chewa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160576 , vital:40478 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-04
  • Description: The Konsolo dance is said to have been performed in the 1930's. Two wives in next door huts call to each other. The one hears the dog bark and calls out the other, "why is the dog barking?" thinking her husband is with her. But the other replies: "No! he is not with me. He is out with that young beauty". (Ndege-aeroplane). A young good looking girl is called 'Ndege' (aeroplane) in the local slang. "Yap, yau, yap, why is the dog barking? Don't you hate beating me because you think our husband is in my house. He is not here because there is Ndege elsewhere." Konsolo women's dance with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Keke, keke garuyo 2 (Yap, yap, the dogs barks)

- Four elderly Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Ku Mchisi kuli mtengo (At Mchisi there is a tree)

- Visanza girl's school choir, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Visanza girl's school choir , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160007 , vital:40367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-04
  • Description: The Nkaodi tree is used as a love charm, the roots being taken soaked in water and drunk, mostly by women in the hope that their husbands will love them more. It would appear that this tune, used as a dance theme in the 1930's reflected the European influence of the period, with the stress incorrectly applied to the ultimate syllables. "At Mchisi there is a tree as a medicine. It is Nkaodi. Two Nsita dance songs for women with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kumtandizi (Mtandizi is not sorry)

- Eight Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

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