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Wakazali Inhaminga (She has married at Inhaminga)

- George Zongoloti and small girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: George Zongoloti and small girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsu, Port Herald District f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156027 , vital:39943 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-03
  • Description: Inhaminga is the village in Mozambique beyond the Zambezi river from this district about 100 miles away to the south and about half way to the port of Beira. The drum held horizontally between the knees, membrane facing outwards-mirliton upwards, the player sitting on the ground. By raising and lowering his legs slightly the drummer presses the open end of the drum on and off his chest. The lower notes are produced while the oriffice of the drum is off his chest. The drum which had a 7 inch membrane was 12 inches tall. The water-lizard skin was weighted with paste on the inner surface and was attached with wooden pins. Nthikwi dance with cylindrical, weighted drums and mirliton.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wakwatira chchabe (You are cross about nothing)

- Dawusi Chirongo, Hugh Tracey

Wanijalila kuwaya (He has pushed out to a bad place)

- D. Phiri, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: D. Phiri , 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/10962/156291 , vital:39972 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-10
  • Description: "A bad place, he had trapped me in a bad place. Men have given me disease. Men deceive, they have deceived me with money. They gave me a venereal disease. It has finished the children in my home. I sit down and dream of Miliam." This lament is perhaps a strange basis for a dance except as an extension of the thought in dance drama, the equivalent of religious dancin, the extension of the music into movement. Dance song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Waroya mwana (The bewitched child)

- Saini Murira, Chingaipa Madzikuminga, Zhogi Muzengedza and Saini Madera, Hugh Tracey

Wenda m'manja manja (Go in the hands)

- Elefala Jeremiah Mbewe, Hugh Tracey

Zaina wasala madembe (Those that are left behind)

- Simenti Phiri, Hugh Tracey

Zanse na Tengani afuna mapass (Everything at Tengani needs a pass)

- George Zongoloti and small girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: George Zongoloti and small girls , 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/${Handle} , vital:39905 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-02
  • Description: The song is sung partly in Sena and partly in Mangyanja. The drummer sitting on the ground with his drum on his thighs moves the drum on and off his chest by raising and lowering the tips of his feet with heels on the ground. This has the necessary tonal effect when moving the drum half an inch or so only. The singer, George Zongoloti is singing about his troubles. If he wants to go to Southern Rhodesia he has to come Chief Tingami for a pass. If he wants to fish, another pass. Even to make a canoe, he needs a pass. Now he is going back to Portuguese territory over the border because there you can do what you like without a single pass, just what you like! Topical song with Nthikwi drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Che Mwangulube (Mwangulube stole some meat)

- Simakwenda, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Simakwenda , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Arts, Malawi , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Safwa (African people)--Music , Africa Malawi Mbeya f-mw
  • Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde , Safwa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151839 , vital:39178 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-03
  • Description: The singer's upper front teeth were filed. Towards the end of the first item, one string went out of tune, as the small wooden bridge, with which each string is tuned separately, slipped inwards. The Safwa tribe live immediately to the north of the Nyakyusa (Nkonde) near Mbeya. The player took his instrument away before it could be measured. Self-delectative song with Pango board zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kalulu drum rhythms

- 3 Nyakyusa drummers with Nyakyusa women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 3 Nyakyusa drummers with Nyakyusa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Arts, Malawi , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Ngonde (African people)--music , Drum--Performance , Africa Malawi Tukuyu f-mw
  • Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151828 , vital:39177 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-02
  • Description: The women's dance was slow and graceful, and consisted of advancing and retiring in pairs, raising and lowering their large horse-tail fly-whisks. "Kabulu" in Nyakyusa is derived, they say, from the word meaning to "ululate". During the dance they call out "we are proud of Tukuyu, we are proud we have come." All the drums were locally made on the mine, from oil drums. They were double-headed and laced. Mampenenga and Kalulu dance with 1 conical drum, laced, 2 cylindrical laced drums with wooden beaters.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mampenenga drum rhythms

- 3 Nyakyusa drummers with Nyakyusa women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 3 Nyakyusa drummers with Nyakyusa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Arts, Malawi , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Ngonde (African people)--music , Drum--Performance , Africa Malawi Tukuyu f-mw
  • Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151819 , vital:39176 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-01
  • Description: The Mampenenga is danced in silence to the accompaniment of the drums. The dancers, all men wore long Swahili "Kikoye" or skirts. The bass drummer uses one of his sticks as a pressure stick occassionally to raise the note on the membrane. The dance is a form of slow graceful prancing with much bending of the kness and swinging, raising and lowering of fly-whisks in the right hand. Mampenenga and Kalulu dance with 1 conical drum, laced, 2 cylindrical laced drums with wooden beaters.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nisiri pa Wankie (I have come to Wankie, I have cone to find money to pay my lobola)

- America Kanada, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: America Kanada , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Arts, Malawi , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Safwa (African people)--Music , Africa Malawi Tukuyu f-mw
  • Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde , Safwa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151848 , vital:39179 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-04
  • Description: The singer was a strange shy little man who did not even stay to hear his own songs played to the end. His second song gained rounds of applause. The burden of it was;- "I want to to go home, I am wasting my time here, I do not want to stay, I would rather desert. Please, boss, give me my money. I want to go home. Self-delectative song with Pango board zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tubuke ku kaya (Let's go home, I do not want to spend all my money on the Kasai ladies)

- America Kanada, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: America Kanada , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Arts, Malawi , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Safwa (African people)--Music , Africa Malawi Tukuyu f-mw
  • Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde , Safwa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151857 , vital:39180 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-05
  • Description: The singer was a strange shy little man who did not even stay to hear his own songs played to the end. His second song gained rounds of applause. The burden of it was;- "I want to to go home, I am wasting my time here, I do not want to stay, I would rather desert. Please, boss, give me my money. I want to go home. Self-delectative song with Pango board zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kalilole

- Linilesi Sadiki with Yao girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Linilesi Sadiki with Yao girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Blantyre Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Yao
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154793 , vital:39776 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-14
  • Description: One day little boys went into the forest to play. There they found a big bird which asked them to sing a song the bird wanted to hear, so they went back to the village and consulted their parents about this. After hearing the song from the parents the little boys went back to the forest and sang the song which satisfied the big bird Kalilole. Story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nguluwe

- Irene Mukunga with Yao girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Irene Mukunga with Yao girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chiradzuru f-mw
  • Language: Yao
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154802 , vital:39777 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-15
  • Description: A wild pig was eating fish, this was strange, so they decided to chase the pig. The girls in turn circle round each other. The higher and lower notes of the clapping are made by clapping both along and across the hands, Likwata dance song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nkono Liyande

- Linilesi Sadiki with Yao girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Linilesi Sadiki with Yao girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Blantyre Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Yao
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154784 , vital:39775 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-13
  • Description: Once upon a time there lived a giant which had one leg, one arm and one of everything. The giant had a son who was born and grew in one day. The sons name was Apaka. One day Apaka went to play with his friends and came back singing so that the mother would let him in and here is the song, "Mbugulire mama, kaindeindei yate eja, Ndine Apaka, kaindeindei yate eja." A hyena learnt this song so that when he sang it to Apaka's mother she would open for him. Apaka's mother did not let the hyena in. She knew the voice was different from that of Apaka although it was the same song. Nkonoliyande was the giants name. Story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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