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Nijurireni

  • Authors: W. Theu , Tembuka boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184967 , vital:44294 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-18
  • Description: There was once a child who was sent to bring food to her father in his hut. She asked to come in and he first asked her what relish she had brought; she told him vegetables but she was sent back again to teh kitchen. Each time she came with vegetables she was sent away until the relish provided was meat. He did not want beans and vegetables, only meat-the greedy creature! "Open for me, Ha-he! Open, open ndera ndera As you say, open for me, what have you brought? I have brought porridge. What is the relish? The relish is beans. If the relish is beans, go and eat with your mother! The relish is vegetables. Go and eat with your mother. The relish is meat! Come inside, come inside." Story song
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ndevinepo ndamwana mdiki

  • Authors: Chimpandano, J. M. C. , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-18
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , 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/10962/242236 , vital:51019 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT504-L126 , Research no. L2X8
  • Description: A song, accompanied by clapping and bass drum, about a person who would like to be left to dance alone.
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  • Date Issued: 1957-07-18

Nkurira nyama

  • Authors: Chimpandano, J. M. C. , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-18
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
  • Language: Nyamwanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/242227 , vital:51014 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT504-L126 , Research no. L2X7
  • Description: A song, accompanied by clapping and drum, about a man who does not worry about women but only cries for meat.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-18

Anyanori, anyanori paramwa pasa tiki

Bemu tuvoni memba

Cheyu chamunganda

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

Chitima wajumbo

Cin'goma ca kubaruka

Kamudyanga

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

Kayuni

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

  • 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

Mungate tamara

Munkwele

Mwaba woli bani (The decitiful wife)

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

Ng'eng'e kumatengele

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

Nkurira nyama (I cry for meat)

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