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Wena wamakhosi esizwe (You lord of the people)

- Group of men and girls from the Queen mother's village, Hugh Tracey

Nyakwambe Huma (Come out Nyankwabe)

- Group of Ronga men, Hugh Tracey

Ka Manica MaPotukezi mafuma (At Manica the Portuguese rule)

- Group of Ronga men, Hugh Tracey

Mantentemezana (Herd boys' rain song)

- Group of small boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of small boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152184 , vital:39231 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-02
  • Description: This song is a well known and recited by herd boys on seeing small clouds appear in the sky calling the clouds to collect and drop their rain for the cattle they are herding. Alternately for the clouds to spread out and allow the sun to shine again. Herd boy's rain song
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Yenabo Thoko (Hello, mother of Thoko)

- Group of small girls, Hugh Tracey

Ngwenyama usenta lunya kuze (The Paramount Chief has not done right)

- Group of Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Pigg's Peak f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152385 , vital:39272 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR069-01
  • Description: "Ihubo", the song of the Mahindani Regiment. The Paramount Chief Sibuya has not done right in allowing the Europeans to create the Ngonini Estates of Mbhanbadane. The story giving rise to the song is that certain African employees of the "Ngonini" estates seduced the wives of other men of neighbouring villages, who then declared that the paramount chief had done wrong in allowing the "Ngonini Estates" to settle there at Mbhambadane. Umgubo regimental song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

U Zulu Azi Ahihlome (All the young men must prepare themselves for war)

- Group of unmarried Swazi girls, Hugh Tracey

Ogandaba Nyasisha (He will burn the whole country)

- Group of unmarried Swazi girls, Hugh Tracey

Nakhona Singianga Giba II

- Group of young Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152970 , vital:39368 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-05
  • Description: A song for running and for walking. The same song is done in two styles. A young men do this style of chanting when loping from one village to another. Their songs change each year, they say, but the style of performance remains. It is part of the young men's set of dances also. "We are as many as those of Giba. We (the people of Sobhuza). Chant for running and walking.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nakhona Singianga Giba I

- Group of young Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152965 , vital:39367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-04
  • Description: A song for running and for walking. The same song is done in two styles. A young men do this style of chanting when loping from one village to another. Their songs change each year, they say, but the style of performance remains. It is part of the young men's set of dances also. "We are as many as those of Giba. We (the people of Sobhuza). Chant for running and walking.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Incaba KaNcofula (We capyured the fortress of Ncofula)

- Group of young Swazi men and girls, Hugh Tracey

Wena usekananza (You who are sleeping now here)

- Group of young unmarried Swazi girls, Hugh Tracey

Halenu mina haleno (Here I am)

- Grup of 5 Shangaan men, Hugh Tracey

Nyimbo dzambalame ndinyama (Cries of birds and animals)

- H. Kachere and Chewa boys, Hugh Tracey

M'dankaka nawe

- Hommerson Kachere, Hugh Tracey

Siyakulwa nesive sonke (We will fight with everybody)

- Indombene Dhlamini and group of 8 Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

Ngoma ka lo induna (The Induna's song)

- Isaac Lubisi and 5 Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

Medina ne Alawo (The Chewa and the Yao)

- J. W. Gwemgwe with Chewa lads, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: J. W. Gwemgwe with Chewa lads , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160260 , vital:40428 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-11
  • Description: There were two men who were friends, one was a Yao and the other was a Chewa. The Chewa invited the Yao to his house and he found them at lunch where they had pork to eat. "We do not eat pork" the Yao said "so when you invite me you should not offer me pork". Now the Yao invited the Chewa, and to his surprise the Chewa found the Yao eating pork and dancing. The Yao told the Chewa to listen to the kind of music the Yao themselves sang in order to divert his friend's attention from the mean. But the Chewa said to the Yao, "You cannot deceive us any longer. We now know you do take this kind of meat, so do not refuse my pork in the future." The Yao came under the direct influence of the Arab traders and most of them are Mohammedans, hence the taboo on eating pork. Nthano story with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kalulu nkulu wa bwalo (The Rabbit is Chief of the Court)

- J. W. Gwengwe and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: J. W. Gwengwe and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160188 , vital:40417 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-03
  • Description: The dance is performed only at night by young men, the pricipal dancers themselves dancing naked, some with special masks called Nyau in the shape of an antelope, an elephant, and a lion, while some walk on stilts. The larger masks are usually carried by two men. Some observers have said that the dance is connected with fertility rites. Only males are permitted to participate and women can only observe from a distance. The dance, they say is usually performed on bright moonlight nights. The gist of the song appears to refer to a familiar story which is told and sung in the district. "Rabbit is the chief of the court (of animals) Hopping, hopping. The rabbit was elected to be the chief." Dance song for Nyau dance with rhythmic clapping and struck iron (-12.16-).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wakuzi (Who spoiled the relish?)

- J. W. Gwengwe and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: J. W. Gwengwe and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kachere, Lilongwe, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153676 , vital:39497 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-15
  • Description: "Who has told you to squeeze the caterpillars? Who has told you to prepare the frog? Who has told you to squeeze the chameleon? Who has told you to squeeze the grasshopper? Who has told you to squeeze the snake? Meaning, you have spoiled the relish provided by caterpillars, etc. by squeezing them out instead of leaving them. Of the ones mentioned, the caterpillars, grasshoppers and snakes, but the chameleon definitely inedible. The song which was originally a Nyau dance song is now used as a drinking song. It appears that the creatures mentioned in the song are best cooked in their natural state without being dressed in any way. Drinking song with clapping and struck iron (a hoe) -12.16-.
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  • Date Issued: 1958
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