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Tumbuka
1957

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Anyanori, anyanori paramwa pasa tiki

- Composer not specified, Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka/Henga women (Performers), Hugh Tracey

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

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Bemu tuvoni memba

- R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer), Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers), Hugh Tracey

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

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Cheyu chamunganda

- Composer not specified, Group of Tumbuka men (Performers), Hugh Tracey

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.
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Date Issued: 1957

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Chigwinini chikuko mana nawo (A man with 2 wives has no wife)

- Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140179 , vital:37844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-02
Description: If a man has 2 wives they are jealous of each other; when he goes to see the one, she says: "Go away to your other wife, he goes to see the one, she says: " I a, not your wife-go and see the other one." So in the end he has no wife and doesn't know where to go. This composition is not unlike a Russian folk song. Humorous song.
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Date Issued: 1957

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Chikulamayembe Gondwe

- Alick Mpusi Mutali and Tumbuka/Henga men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Alick Mpusi Mutali and Tumbuka/Henga men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Livingstone f-za
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140247 , vital:37854 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-09
Description: Chief Chikulamayembe Gondwe is the Paramount Chief of the Henga people in northern Nyasaland- as a great man by men of his tribe. Praise song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Chitima wajumbo

- Composer not specified, Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka women (Performers), Hugh Tracey

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

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Cin'goma ca kubaruka

- R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer), Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers), Hugh Tracey

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

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Kamudyanga

- R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer), Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers), Hugh Tracey

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

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Kanakazi Kayaya mbebeweta pamulomo (The unfaithful wife talks too much)

- Smart Chigwamba and group of 5 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Smart Chigwamba and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140198 , vital:37847 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-04
Description: The unfaithful wife deliberately annoys her husband by nagging him, until he leaves her. Topical song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Kayuni

- R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer), Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers), Hugh Tracey

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

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Kupura kupika na kuldya nakundewa

- Composer not specified, Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka/Henga women (Performers), Hugh Tracey

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

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Mbaya mwana wane bamutya cimbwe (Mbaya, my child, is called a hyena)

- Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140216 , vital:37849 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-06
Description: A man who was working away from home on the Copper Mines, had a girl sent to him to marry from his own village. But when she arrived she was so ugly he said: "Marry you, never! You look like a hyena!" So the girl went back and told her mother who rushed out of the house shouting to her husband in great hanger: "My child Mbaya has been called a hyena!" From what the Welfare officers say, it appears that this situation is a common experience on the Copperbelt where girls are frequently sent by their parents to get themselves married to their absent young men on the mines, with the same painful rebuff if not acceptable. Humorous song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mungate tamara

- R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer), Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers), Hugh Tracey

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

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Munkwele

- Group of 7 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of 7 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140287 , vital:37858 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-12
Description: The drum was tapped on the side as well as being beaten on either side. Malipenga dance song with Nkohombo singing horns (calabashes), 1 brass drum, double, laced with 2 beaters.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mwaba woli bani (The decitiful wife)

- Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140227 , vital:37850 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-07
Description: The story is about a girl who told her brother-in-law she was going to see her husband on the Copperbelt. But she took a bus in the opposite direction and it was clear that not only had her plans changed, but her affections as well. Humorous song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Mwariwa toca ku Henga

- Composer not specified, Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka/Henga women (Performers), Hugh Tracey

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

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Mwayowoya ciyowoyeyowoye mwayo woya (You don't know what your are talking about)

- Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140171 , vital:37843 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-01
Description: The song is addressed to a "gate crasher" who is trying to force himself into a drinking party. The others say: "Why should you drink our beer, after all we paid for it." "Go away, you don't know what you are talking about." Ten men had pooled their resources to buy the beer and then they found an eleventh among them who had not paid. Humorous song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Ndevinepo ndamwana mdiki (Let me dance myself the small child)

- J. M. Chimpondondo, Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and Tumbuka/Henga men

Authors: J. M. Chimpondondo , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and Tumbuka/Henga men
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Karonga f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140272 , vital:37857 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-11
Description: The drum was tapped on the side as well as being beaten on either side. Wulumba dance with clapping and Urumba bass drum.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Ng'eng'e kumatengele

- R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer), Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers), Hugh Tracey

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

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Nkhendannga uteka ukwenka zeza (I was walking and found the grass moving)

- Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140207 , vital:37848 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-05
Description: There was a man who was walking through the bush when there came a great wind. He thought it was a lion coming and was very frightened. But it was the grass and trees rustling in the wind.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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