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Ni panama pamulyano pa mambo

- Yelele Lungu, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Yelele Lungu , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1949
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184473 , vital:44226 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-09
Description: This poetic song is one of the blind composers musings. Being blind he lives in a contemplative world of his own and expresses himself in unusually poetic manner. Mourning song with 10 note Kalimba
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1949

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Zuwa na mwezi

- Yelele Lungu, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Yelele Lungu , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1949
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184464 , vital:44225 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-08
Description: The sun and the moon are contrasted as lovers. The son returns to his mother if he is unsucceful in love and the mother sees in the hooting of the owls the omen of death to come. The player Yelele Lungu is one of two blind muscians in the Petauke district. Blind from birth he has developed an unusual degree of petic imagery. He had bever seen either the sun or the moon and his poetry consequently reflected a blind man's conception of natural phenomena. Unfortunately owing to technical difficulties both his recordings on this disc are poor, but his poetry warranted their inclusion. Love song, with Kalimba of 10 notes
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Date Issued: 1949

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Ada a Banda

- Lucy Nyamangwe, Tonga girls, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Lucy Nyamangwe , Tonga girls , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184549 , vital:44234 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-17
Description: "My father, Banda, has gone off to work in the towns, for a long long time, to buy himself clothes." How true a reflection this is upon thousands of Tonga men in this district who go off to mines and towns for their own reasons leaving the women and children to fend for themselves at home. Many send back money, but as many others find local foreign girls and forget their home and children. Chioda dance song for young women with drum rhythm beaten on a box
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Anthu acilendo

- Lucy Nyamangwe, Tonga girls, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Lucy Nyamangwe , Tonga girls , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184540 , vital:44233 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-16
Description: "Men who travel away from home make their women think about them with longing as they sleep in their 'pyjamas' alone." The word 'pyjama' has been adopted locally as 'Majamara'. In point of fact the women do not sleep in pyjamas at all they say, and it is used as a figure of speech. Chioda dance song for young women with drum rhythm beaten on a box
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Ici ncumba

- Lucy Nyamangwe, Tonga girls, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Lucy Nyamangwe , Tonga girls , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184531 , vital:44232 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-15
Description: "Maria gave birth to her child on the lake steamer. Her midwives were sailors." This incident seems to have given rise to local hilarity. Chioda dance song for young women with drum rhythm beaten on a box
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Iyelele

- Kiti Shunga, Ngoni men and women, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Kiti Shunga , Ngoni men and women , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184508 , vital:44230 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-13
Description: Sung when the bride's party arrive at the husband's village. Wedding song
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Ngubani o'sibizela elamgeni

- Ngoni men, Ngoni women, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Ngoni men , Ngoni women , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184502 , vital:44229 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-12
Description: An old regimental song from the days of Zongendaba now used at parties or when the men have killed a lion or leopard, at the dance before the chief to celebrate the event. This song and many others like it demonstrate the Zulu or Ngoni strain in the northern Nyasaland culture since there has been no direct connection with Zukuland for well over 100 years. Mgubo dance song, after hunting leopard or lion
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Silandele Unjenje oyana

- Joel M, Ngoni men, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Joel M , Ngoni men , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:44228 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-11
Description: Unjenje was the head of another band of the Ngoni over in Northern Rhodesia near Fort Jameson. Mgubo dance song, after hunting leopard or lion
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Uyezwa ngendumo macaba ngendumo

- Joel M, Ngoni men, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Joel M , Ngoni men , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184482 , vital:44227 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-10
Description: This somg is taken from an old Ngoni regimental song which would, in the old days, have been used only as a song after hunting. This style of singing is indigenous to Zululand rather than Nyasaland and was brought up north in the early nineteenth century migration of the two distinct groups, the Jiri and the Gomani. The Jiri came up through the highlands of what is now Southern Rhodesia and sacked the settlement at Zimbabwe on their way. In one or two words the change over from the Zulu "L" to the Nyasa "R" can be discerned. After hunting and killing a lion the party will dance the Mgubo before the chief and earn an ox in reward. Mgubo dance song, after hunting leopard or lion
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Date Issued: 1950

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Zamapembe sesiyandinda

- Kiti Shunga, Ngoni men and women, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Kiti Shunga , Ngoni men and women , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184522 , vital:44231 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-14
Description: "We have brought your wife. You must love her and treat her well." It is clear to Zulu speaking people from the pronunciation that these songs are sung by people of mixed origin. The wedding songs of the Nguni appear to have been influenced by their mothers 'side of the family-the Tumbuka and Chewa speaking tribes. Wedding song
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Amalume kuwayawa

- Group of Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184418 , vital:44220 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-03
Description: "Boys marry young girls, who is Lami going to marry? You will never have any food. You are going to eat your mother. My uncle is not settled, for he thinks I am his wife." One woman claps gently in the background
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Anatami (Mid-season)

- Group of Tonga men led by Siamungomo, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of Tonga men led by Siamungomo , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138353 , vital:37625 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-01
Description: Towards the end of the song the voice of the Chief Chepepo can be heard. "Listen boys, I have been to Gwanda, Mersima, Plumtree in Salisbury. Also I was in India." Midseason is the time between sowing and reaping the winter crops, between May and July. Drinking song with clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Atuwendi kumanzi ntwende kumulonga tukateke menda (Go to the river, go to draw water.Let us get water)

- Timoti Sadimbi, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Timoti Sadimbi , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138117 , vital:37595 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-16
Description: Timoti wet the flute with water first before playing. These flutes, they say, are played in January and February, and finished in March, during the time when they start to eat the new season's summer crop of mealies. They are played in the field. The flute is played with the fingers of the right hand palm turned inwards and is held in thus hand only. Flute tune for harvest with Mutetule usibgwa transverse reed flute x 3, open at far end.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Bamba nzi munyika (What they are saying in the country)

- Chakobola Sheni, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Chakobola Sheni , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139082 , vital:37703 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-14
Description: The singer had his noise pierced (the tip of the septum), which until recently was a common practice among Tonga. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Bamwioka mwana anku angu (You have taken my chicken and roasted it)

- Samson Mwetwa and group of Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Samson Mwetwa and group of Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138423 , vital:37635 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-07
Description: A chicken is supposed to be a fine antidote for a hangover, on the morning after a drinking party. So it is a most serious thing to be deprived of one's sure remedy in this way. Drinking song with clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Bino Siabungu balu oba mboma, wewe (We 'honour' those who killed the mother of Siabungu)

- Group of Tonga men and women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138035 , vital:37586 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-07
Description: The sound of the women's feet can be heard on the hard dusty ground. "Honour" is used in the opposite sense, really meaning "hate." In this song the usual African belief that death is caused by ill-wishing or magic, is implied. Funeral dance song with ensemble of Nyele end-blown antelope horns and Ngoma drums.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Chawayawaya chipuwa

- Group of Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Group of Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184409 , vital:44219 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-02
Description: "I have married an old man who yawns when he wakes up in the morning. I will die here and die again at home, on account of the magic. Only a fool has no blanket." Topical song
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Chembere luimbolo (Old people, here is a song)

- Notis Chukwa, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Notis Chukwa , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139113 , vital:37706 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-16
Description: This song was recorded in the shade of a large tamarind tree outside the village of Sinefwala. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Chipungu

- Jespar Lungu and is wife, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Jespar Lungu and is wife , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184437 , vital:44222 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-05
Description: The man is singing, partly in Falsetto, a duet with his wife. "Chipungu, Chipungu, show me where the meat is." The Chipungu is the Bateleur eagle which features in many songs in this part of Africa. It is sometimes said to be a sign of good luck, and, sometimes, if flies across your path at the beginning of a journey that you should turn back and start again tomorrow. Self delectative song with Kalimba, eleven notes, fan and external resonator
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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Chiterere chanakazi

- Jespar Lungu and is wife, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Jespar Lungu and is wife , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
Language: Nsenga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184427 , vital:44221 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-04
Description: The man is singing, partly in Falsetto, a duet with his wife. Self delectative song with Kalimba, eleven notes, fan and external resonator
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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