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Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw

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Kumaji kumailo-mailo

- Boys at Dedza Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Boys at Dedza Secondary School , 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 Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184875 , vital:44281 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-08
Description: There was a man who had a wife and he killed a certain woman who had a child and so his wife adopted the baby. It was the child who is supposed to be singing this song. The child was trying to remember her mother and was thinking how she could have been brought up by her own mother. The mother was killed because of a dispute over an old cow. She was carelessly looked by her stepmother. Ntano story song
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Date Issued: 1958

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Wasepuka na mbuzi

- Wareni Mkwandawiri, Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Wareni Mkwandawiri , Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185804 , vital:44432 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-02
Description: There was once a pair of twin boys who were herding their goats. They decided to try to find out which was the fatter abd so they cut each other's stomach open to find out. The second twin died from the woound. A bird saw all this and went to tell their parents. When questioned the other twin lied saying that the second twin had been gored by a goat. Thereupon the people took the twin and killed him too for killing his twin brother. (The story was not fully finished on the record). Story with song
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Date Issued: 1950

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Wezulu walila

- Boys of Dedza Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Boys of Dedza Secondary School , 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 Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184958 , vital:44293 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-17
Description: This song was sung, they say, when the white man first came to their country at the turn of the century. Unlike the local people they used whistle to give words of command and it was a novelity at the time, and so found its way into folk song. Dance song for Ngoma with clapping
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Date Issued: 1958

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Namfikilankhu

- Taines Chirwa, Nancy Luhana, Tumbuka girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Taines Chirwa , Nancy Luhana , Tumbuka girls , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185186 , vital:44337 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-16
Description: "When I get there who will look after me, as they do not know me there." The girls were clearly out of breath with the effort of both pounding and singing. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Amama nkhawawone

- Eliya Chaya, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Eliya Chaya , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185263 , vital:44359 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-05
Description: This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. Simple song in typical vein by a village singer. The tuning of the Bango was:- 256, 236, 216, 198, 178, 156, 140 vs. Self delectative song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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Date Issued: 1950

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Kaliya-liya, ndinde kaliya

- Hannington Ngoma, Henga boys and girls, Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Hannington Ngoma , Henga boys and girls , Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185813 , vital:44433 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-03
Description: There was once a man who used to work very hard from sunrise till sunset out in his fields. His wife used to cook many different kinds of food and as soon as it was ready she would send her young son to go out to the fields to call his father. This he did by singing him a song each time, when the father would stop working and come home. Story with song
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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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Zelina

- Nezala Shongs, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Nezala Shongs , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185104 , vital:44328 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-07
Description: "Zelina I have touched your girdle of beads." This singer is a Ngoni singing in Tumbuka, the language of the people amongst whom he lives. To touch the bead girdle is an indication of success in love.Love song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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Date Issued: 1950

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Walila winu mung'omba

- Japhet Zimba, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Japhet Zimba , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185354 , vital:44368 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-12
Description: "The hornbills are singing, 'the night is gone'." This district contains people of mixed blood, Ngoni and Tumbuka. They call themselves Ngoni but speak Tumbuka. Self delectative song with Kalimba (9 notes)
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Date Issued: 1950

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Diyele wane

- Japhiti Zimba, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Japhiti Zimba , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185114 , vital:44329 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-08
Description: The Kalimba, they say, is a comparatively new to this district and people. They have recently begun to learn it from the Nsenga at Fort Jameson where this player had gone to work on a Europen farm there in 1922. "You always call me 'dear' with your mouth, but what kind of 'dear' is this if you do not let me sleep with you?" This is a pleasnt little melody set against an appropriate accompaniment. The player's old voice does not do his own melody credit, as so often happens among folk singers, and it should be performed by a younger person to bring out its virtue. Love song with Kalimba Mbira (nine notes)
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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
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Date Issued: 1950

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Roda ndirinde

- Nezala Shongs, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Nezala Shongs , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185095 , vital:44327 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-06
Description: "Roda wait for me, I have been following you a long way. Please wait, I want to talk yo you." The singer is Ngoni buy belongs to one of the small Ngoni groups now living amongst the Tumbuka. Love song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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Date Issued: 1950

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Eda iwe, zomela

- Mwenela Kaunda, Tumbuka girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Mwenela Kaunda , Tumbuka girls , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185159 , vital:44334 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-13
Description: Pounding with three pestles to one mortar. Six or seven girls stand around the mortar and take turns tp pound. One girl on each repeat of the tune, throws her pestle up into the air to the next on her left, this girl catches it in mid air and first pounds lightly on the edge of the mortar (the sound of which can be clearly heard) and then in the mortar until it is her turn to throw it on to her neighbor who repeats the process. Since the pestles weigh about 20 lbs. each, this game at the mortar takes considerable skill and strength. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
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Date Issued: 1950

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Kwenda munthowa nkluweme

- Patiriki Mphaka, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Patiriki Mphaka , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185249 , vital:44357 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-03
Description: This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. "It is good to walk along the path because then it is I meet my love." This simple song is typical of those of the older generation of musicians. The tuning of the Bango was:- 256, 236, 216, 198, 178, 156, 140 vs. Self delectative song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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Date Issued: 1950

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A Tembo

- Taines Chirwa, Nancy Luhana, Tumbuka girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Taines Chirwa , Nancy Luhana , Tumbuka girls , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185177 , vital:44336 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-15
Description: The grain for the midday meal at this mission is ground by machine, but for the evening meal it is still done by the girls in a mortar. They say the mortar meal is more tasty. "The old woman runs down the hill to help pound." Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
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Date Issued: 1950

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Walowela mawa

- Kachali, Zakaliya, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Kachali, Zakaliya , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1950-05-26
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/211433 , vital:47614 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT177-D35.1 , Research no. D2B8
Description: Humorous song with Bango Board Zither accompaniment.
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Date Issued: 1950-05-26

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Wanganya welaninge

- Gondwe, E. M., Henga men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Gondwe, E. M. , Henga men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185123 , vital:44330 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-09
Description: "My friends, come, Nyasaland is now spoiled, women are very unfaithful." Morality songs are often couched in musical terms learnt at the missions, and are based upon generalisations of hymn tunes. Morality song
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Munthu na chinkwanya

- Verrah Chirwa, Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Verrah Chirwa , Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185566 , vital:44399 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-20
Description: The story teller was taught this story, she says, by her uncle's wife. This is a story about a brother and a sister who went to see their sister in the next village. Before they left they were warned not to take a certain path. When they reached the junction they started arguing about which was the right path. Unfortunately they took the wrong path which led them to a giant. Story song
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Majoni

- Patiriki Mphaka, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Patiriki Mphaka , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185258 , vital:44358 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-04
Description: This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. "All my people are sead, I alone remain." This simple song is typical of those of the older generation of musicians. The tuning of the Bango was:- 256, 236, 216, 198, 178, 156, 140 vs. Self delectative song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Mwana winu wancenekela

- Japhet Zimba, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Japhet Zimba , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185360 , vital:44369 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-13
Description: "Your child has stolen my sixpence for paying my tax." This district contains people of mixed blood, Ngoni and Tumbuka. They call themselves Ngoni but speak Tumbuka. Self delectative song with Kalimba (9 notes)
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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