A Mdoka (Mdoka and the bee sting)
- R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tumbuka (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chinteche District f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156225 , vital:39964 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-03
- Description: Some young men came to see the chief who asked each in turn how their homes were. They said they were all alright except for Mdoka who had been stung by a bee on his lips. This gave rise to a song about his misfortune. The others also told the chief their stories including one about the fish they were catching and he sang a canoe song "Kanye Kanye madoda, Kanye kanye haiye." 'A' before a name is the local honorific equivalent of Mister. Story song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tumbuka (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chinteche District f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156225 , vital:39964 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-03
- Description: Some young men came to see the chief who asked each in turn how their homes were. They said they were all alright except for Mdoka who had been stung by a bee on his lips. This gave rise to a song about his misfortune. The others also told the chief their stories including one about the fish they were catching and he sang a canoe song "Kanye Kanye madoda, Kanye kanye haiye." 'A' before a name is the local honorific equivalent of Mister. Story song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
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.
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- 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
Abale ndutani (Brother, what shall I do with my life. Can I cut it?)
- Tweleve elderly women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Tweleve elderly women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155739 , vital:39911 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-08
- Description: The women make clever use of their gourds, some smacking them and the others grasping them with alternate hands. The gourds with their use of clapping together make facinating rhythmic patterns. Chitsukulumwe dances with gourd rattles and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Tweleve elderly women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155739 , vital:39911 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-08
- Description: The women make clever use of their gourds, some smacking them and the others grasping them with alternate hands. The gourds with their use of clapping together make facinating rhythmic patterns. Chitsukulumwe dances with gourd rattles and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Abuye Zandiombale (Uncle, come and help me to pay credit)
- Tweleve elderly women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Tweleve elderly women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155730 , vital:39910 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-07
- Description: The women make clever use of their gourds, some smacking them and the others grasping them with alternate hands. The gourds with their use of clapping together make facinating rhythmic patterns. Chitsukulumwe dances with gourd rattles and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Tweleve elderly women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155730 , vital:39910 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-07
- Description: The women make clever use of their gourds, some smacking them and the others grasping them with alternate hands. The gourds with their use of clapping together make facinating rhythmic patterns. Chitsukulumwe dances with gourd rattles and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Acikanja (A name)
- Authors: 3 Yao women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba, Police Headquarters, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154739 , vital:39770 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-08
- Description: Interesting piece of part singing by wives of African police constables. Nsondo dance song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: 3 Yao women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba, Police Headquarters, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154739 , vital:39770 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-08
- Description: Interesting piece of part singing by wives of African police constables. Nsondo dance song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Adisi adisi (The girl and the guinea fowl)
- Ali Sinoia Milazi and 4 Yao men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Ali Sinoia Milazi and 4 Yao men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154766 , vital:39773 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-11
- Description: A stroy of a girl and the protective colouring of guinea fowl spots. One of the few stories, perhaps, which makes a reference to cannibalism. There was once a girl who went to the garden to fetch mealies. Now there came some guinea fowls and she was facinated by their spots. She said "oh! can't you make me some lovely spots like yours?" They said, "No! we cannot because we are afraid of your father and mother." But the girl said, "Don't you be afraid of my parents." So they made them for her. Then she went off to an old woman who was a cannibal and was delighted to see the girl but the girl put on her spots and escaped. Story song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Ali Sinoia Milazi and 4 Yao men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154766 , vital:39773 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-11
- Description: A stroy of a girl and the protective colouring of guinea fowl spots. One of the few stories, perhaps, which makes a reference to cannibalism. There was once a girl who went to the garden to fetch mealies. Now there came some guinea fowls and she was facinated by their spots. She said "oh! can't you make me some lovely spots like yours?" They said, "No! we cannot because we are afraid of your father and mother." But the girl said, "Don't you be afraid of my parents." So they made them for her. Then she went off to an old woman who was a cannibal and was delighted to see the girl but the girl put on her spots and escaped. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Aliyeli nitauzeni (Aliyeli - greet me!)
- A. Nyambizi and Henga women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: A. Nyambizi and Henga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Henga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Mzimba District f-rh
- Language: Tumbuka/Henga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156282 , vital:39971 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-09
- Description: "Aliyeli, greet me, I am a small child. Aliyeli, write a letter Aliyeli, I came from afar." The burden of the song would appear to be that a young woman about to have her first child is trying to make contact with her man, now that she is about to bear (with difficulty) her first child. Dance song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: A. Nyambizi and Henga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Henga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Mzimba District f-rh
- Language: Tumbuka/Henga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156282 , vital:39971 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-09
- Description: "Aliyeli, greet me, I am a small child. Aliyeli, write a letter Aliyeli, I came from afar." The burden of the song would appear to be that a young woman about to have her first child is trying to make contact with her man, now that she is about to bear (with difficulty) her first child. Dance song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Amai, Amai, ndikunene eleli (Mother, mother, I will say much to you)
- Daliya Kafaniza and Manganja women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza and Manganja women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155802 , vital:39918 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-15
- Description: "My mother, mother, I will say much to you. You have taken my child. I myself am only small. You have taken my child. No, you have taken my child, as I say." Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza and Manganja women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155802 , vital:39918 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-15
- Description: "My mother, mother, I will say much to you. You have taken my child. I myself am only small. You have taken my child. No, you have taken my child, as I say." Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Amalume (Uncle)
- Boys of Dedza Secondary School, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Boys of Dedza Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155948 , vital:39934 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-15
- Description: "Uncle, uncle, uncle, drink your beer carefully. They who hate me, Eyae! They would put poison in my beer. Uncle drink your beer carefully." Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Boys of Dedza Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155948 , vital:39934 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-15
- Description: "Uncle, uncle, uncle, drink your beer carefully. They who hate me, Eyae! They would put poison in my beer. Uncle drink your beer carefully." Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ambikanire une (Listen to me)
- Wodwala Seleman and 5 Yao men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Wodwala Seleman and 5 Yao men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Salima, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154676 , vital:39763 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-01
- Description: The song started in Yao and ended in Chewa. A song sung by the boys when they are alone in the veld after their circumcission to keep away lions at night. (The part of the song so sung by the initiates is in Arabic). Initiation of Boys.
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Wodwala Seleman and 5 Yao men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Salima, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154676 , vital:39763 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-01
- Description: The song started in Yao and ended in Chewa. A song sung by the boys when they are alone in the veld after their circumcission to keep away lions at night. (The part of the song so sung by the initiates is in Arabic). Initiation of Boys.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ananga kwa amai ndikanenaiyi (My children, what shall I say to my mother)
- Six elderly women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Six elderly women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155757 , vital:39913 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-10
- Description: There were certain children of this village who were killed by a lion on their way home and the event was perpetuated in song by the girl who had to break the news to their mother. The players shake their rattles in unison until one gives the sign for the routine to begin. When they complete it and return to the beginning of the verse again. One woman was clapping. Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Six elderly women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155757 , vital:39913 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-10
- Description: There were certain children of this village who were killed by a lion on their way home and the event was perpetuated in song by the girl who had to break the news to their mother. The players shake their rattles in unison until one gives the sign for the routine to begin. When they complete it and return to the beginning of the verse again. One woman was clapping. Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Chawaiye-chawaiye (Married-married)
- Three elderly women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Three elderly women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomole, Ncheu f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155584 , vital:39896 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-10
- Description: A man sings happily that the libolo of cattle is now in his hands, the bride price paid over to him for his daughter Lili by his new son-in-law. "My cattle, I am now lucky, I have now got the cattle with their heads facing towards my place. Oyayo !" Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Three elderly women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomole, Ncheu f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155584 , vital:39896 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-10
- Description: A man sings happily that the libolo of cattle is now in his hands, the bride price paid over to him for his daughter Lili by his new son-in-law. "My cattle, I am now lucky, I have now got the cattle with their heads facing towards my place. Oyayo !" Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Chigona mbara (The drunkard)
- Authors: Simenti Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Malindi, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155906 , vital:39930 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-11
- Description: As he sang the audience were all making the sound of drinking. The tune, he says, was taken from a certain entertainer in Salisbury who called himself Chigona Mbara. The 'Drunkard'. Self delectative song with board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Simenti Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Malindi, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155906 , vital:39930 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-11
- Description: As he sang the audience were all making the sound of drinking. The tune, he says, was taken from a certain entertainer in Salisbury who called himself Chigona Mbara. The 'Drunkard'. Self delectative song with board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
China mureya
- Zemaria Leon Marunga, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Zemaria Leon Marunga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Pondola, Furancengo f-mz
- Language: Sena , Nyungwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156445 , vital:40002 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-03
- Description: The tune is said to be connected with a song about a person who did not like giving food away to anyone else. Self delectative song with Mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Zemaria Leon Marunga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Pondola, Furancengo f-mz
- Language: Sena , Nyungwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156445 , vital:40002 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-03
- Description: The tune is said to be connected with a song about a person who did not like giving food away to anyone else. Self delectative song with Mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Chinkanda amayi (The woman's beads)
- Three young Nyanja men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Three young Nyanja men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomole, Ncheu f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155504 , vital:39888 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-05
- Description: This kind of performance between three friends is the next step from Nthano story telling, towards light opera, but without a solid theme except the all too common subject of borrowed money. "Work Tsotsi, its your habit to work at night and come late for your food, when it is cold. Tsosti boys and girls eat their food cold." "One man had borrowed money from the other. He hedged when asked where it was, saying "It was given to so and so to give back to him." "This woman has a lot of beads. Never mind even if she had beads all the way from her waist to her feet, it would do me no good, because wise men's wives do not have beads around their waists. So better to have my wife without them." Sketch.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Three young Nyanja men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomole, Ncheu f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155504 , vital:39888 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-05
- Description: This kind of performance between three friends is the next step from Nthano story telling, towards light opera, but without a solid theme except the all too common subject of borrowed money. "Work Tsotsi, its your habit to work at night and come late for your food, when it is cold. Tsosti boys and girls eat their food cold." "One man had borrowed money from the other. He hedged when asked where it was, saying "It was given to so and so to give back to him." "This woman has a lot of beads. Never mind even if she had beads all the way from her waist to her feet, it would do me no good, because wise men's wives do not have beads around their waists. So better to have my wife without them." Sketch.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Doka, wandimara chiperi (They have refused me the beans)
- Nyungwe men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nyungwe men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Tete f-mz
- Language: Sena , Nyungwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156490 , vital:40009 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-08
- Description: The drums were brought in order. The small time keeper first. All were played with sticks except Tewe, the largest. Dai dance with 5 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Nyungwe men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Tete f-mz
- Language: Sena , Nyungwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156490 , vital:40009 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-08
- Description: The drums were brought in order. The small time keeper first. All were played with sticks except Tewe, the largest. Dai dance with 5 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ede Amalume (Oh, Uncle! Six speeder)
- Small girls under 14 years, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Small girls under 14 years , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156081 , vital:39949 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-09
- Description: "Oh uncle, oh uncle! Six speeds without changing a gear. Oh, uncle. The mechanical marvels revealed by the modern bicycle as seen by the young. Six speeds! What a bike!. Kwana dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Small girls under 14 years , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156081 , vital:39949 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-09
- Description: "Oh uncle, oh uncle! Six speeds without changing a gear. Oh, uncle. The mechanical marvels revealed by the modern bicycle as seen by the young. Six speeds! What a bike!. Kwana dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Elube (Elube the beautiful girl)
- S. R. Chitalo and De Ndirande Pitch Crooners, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: S. R. Chitalo and De Ndirande Pitch Crooners , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Blantyre f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155535 , vital:39891 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-07
- Description: "She has beautiful curved legs, she has eyes white as rice, A face shinning like the moon." The melody is believed have been copied from Johannesburg recordings. Topical song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: S. R. Chitalo and De Ndirande Pitch Crooners , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Blantyre f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155535 , vital:39891 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-07
- Description: "She has beautiful curved legs, she has eyes white as rice, A face shinning like the moon." The melody is believed have been copied from Johannesburg recordings. Topical song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Famba mpore usadngana mumbuyo (Go over carefully, do not look behind you)
- Authors: Zuake Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Bulolo, Chiromo District f-rh
- Language: Sena , Nyungwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156436 , vital:40001 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-02
- Description: He says the instrument he plays belonged to his father who lived South of the Zambezi near Sena, but who migrated about 150 miles north up the Shire river tributary to the Zambezi into Nyasaland. The old man was so pleased with his performance that when we played back his recording he immediately began to play himself in accompaniment. Self delectative song with Mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Zuake Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Bulolo, Chiromo District f-rh
- Language: Sena , Nyungwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156436 , vital:40001 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-02
- Description: He says the instrument he plays belonged to his father who lived South of the Zambezi near Sena, but who migrated about 150 miles north up the Shire river tributary to the Zambezi into Nyasaland. The old man was so pleased with his performance that when we played back his recording he immediately began to play himself in accompaniment. Self delectative song with Mbira.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Gebede-gebede ulendo wasabwera (Pack-pack, to go and not return)
- Eight elderly women and two drummers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Eight elderly women and two drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155784 , vital:39916 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-13
- Description: Gebede, gebede is the sound of putting ones things together and the banging together of boxes preparing for a journey. This said to be the most typical of all the Mang'anja dances. "Pack, pack, to go and not come back is like the journey when you do not say goodbye." Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles, drums and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Eight elderly women and two drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155784 , vital:39916 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-13
- Description: Gebede, gebede is the sound of putting ones things together and the banging together of boxes preparing for a journey. This said to be the most typical of all the Mang'anja dances. "Pack, pack, to go and not come back is like the journey when you do not say goodbye." Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles, drums and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958