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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

Ife totumika (We have been invited)

- Four Tumbuka women, Hugh Tracey

Kari muchipfuwa kana ziwa ne mwene (Only you can tell what you are thinking in your heart)

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

Koepe kumowa uwepe (Cassava, sweet cassava)

- R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads, Hugh Tracey

Kwimba Kalimba (To play the Kalimba)

- E. A. Nkuzana, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: E. A. Nkuzana , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tumbuka (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Mzimba District f-rh
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156273 , vital:39970 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-08
  • Description: "To play the 'Kalimba' is to be happy. I remember long ago when I was a small child when I thought a breast was made of bone. But my mother told me that the breast was not bone, but flesh only. I was fooled long ago, I thought the breast was bone but it is flesh only. Listen my friends, the breast is flesh only." It seems that the obvious meaning of the words is intended to serve a secondary one. Perhaps the revelation of the begining of his natural sex life. Self delectative song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Marume ma shora Mambo(The man blames the Chief)

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

Musengu

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

Mwamuwona kambelembele (Have you seen that cunning fellow?)

- R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads, Hugh Tracey

Nanga mondithawe (Wherever you go)

- Four Tumbuka women, Hugh Tracey

Ndicha Girita pano mufare mufare (I am leaving here, stay happily)

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

Siti, musikana adadeka (Siti, the beautiful girl)

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

Timbenge tingaruwa (Let us sing lest we forget)

- E. A. Nkuzana, Hugh Tracey

Waba waplumu (They have stolen the cassava)

- R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads, Hugh Tracey

Waroya mwana (The bewitched child)

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

Zaina wasala madembe (Those that are left behind)

- Simenti Phiri, Hugh Tracey

Angoni sonu

- Maluba Mwale, Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

Benu

- Maluba Mwale, Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Maluba Mwale , Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chiundasi f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184689 , vital:44249 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-13
  • Description: "What am I going to tell them? Where am I going to complain? I am singing like a church organ." Benu is the name of a jumping action in the dance. This instrument was particulary well played and well made of its kind. The one stringed lute appears to come from the upper Nile and has not been found south of Nyasaland and the Zambesi valley. Chioda dance song for young women with Karigo one stringed lute
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Dale wanga ghamunyenga maSotho

- Beti Kamanga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Beti Kamanga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184626 , vital:44242 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-07
  • Description: "My darling boy has married a Sotho girl on account of her money. When we go to Johannesburg by the W.N.L.A. (Witwatersrand Native Labour Association - a large recruiting concern form mine labourers). We all talk "aha-aha!" all the time (exclamation of surprise). No less than 8,000 men from this district have left permanently in the past few years, and married foreign women in South Africa of the Rhodesias, according to the local authorities. Topical song, with Bangwe Raft Zither, 7 strings
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kanthu pa Ingalandi

- Beti Kamanga, Hugh Tracey

Ku canya kwe manyanda

- Beti Kamanga, Hugh Tracey

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