Khanyisa Gura (Mother)
- Robert Golozera and three elderly women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Robert Golozera and three elderly women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomole, Ncheu f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155602 , vital:39898 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-11
- Description: A song sung on engagement, when the woman is first brought to the man's home. Robert Golozera is the uncle of the present chief Njolomole. The man who is supposed to be singing this song, complains that a certain man came 'behind his back' and slept with his wife while he himself was in the village. In some devious way the theme of the song appears to be intended to be taken as a warning to wantons. Marriage song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Robert Golozera and three elderly women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomole, Ncheu f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155602 , vital:39898 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-11
- Description: A song sung on engagement, when the woman is first brought to the man's home. Robert Golozera is the uncle of the present chief Njolomole. The man who is supposed to be singing this song, complains that a certain man came 'behind his back' and slept with his wife while he himself was in the village. In some devious way the theme of the song appears to be intended to be taken as a warning to wantons. Marriage song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Awe simene
- Robert Golozera and 3 elderly women with the chief, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Robert Golozera and 3 elderly women with the chief , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomoe, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154838 , vital:39784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-04
- Description: Sung in the old Ngoni style. The Chief calls one out towards the end of the song that his people are the ones who came from the Swati, down South (with the Gomani section of the Ngoni). This section migrated from Natal either just before or during the Shaka wars. "Some had brought fighting men to terrify me, but could do nothing. But here we still live and you could do nothing to us." Two fighting songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Robert Golozera and 3 elderly women with the chief , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomoe, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154838 , vital:39784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-04
- Description: Sung in the old Ngoni style. The Chief calls one out towards the end of the song that his people are the ones who came from the Swati, down South (with the Gomani section of the Ngoni). This section migrated from Natal either just before or during the Shaka wars. "Some had brought fighting men to terrify me, but could do nothing. But here we still live and you could do nothing to us." Two fighting songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Edele Nkosi
- Robert Golozera and 3 elderly women with the chief, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Robert Golozera and 3 elderly women with the chief , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomoe, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154843 , vital:39785 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-05
- Description: The chief had already overrun so many smaller clans that there were few fields to conquer. "The chief looks for land. The chieftainships are finishing. Look up and down you men so that people will know that you are a man from the village of a famous chief." Two fighting songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Robert Golozera and 3 elderly women with the chief , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomoe, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154843 , vital:39785 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-05
- Description: The chief had already overrun so many smaller clans that there were few fields to conquer. "The chief looks for land. The chieftainships are finishing. Look up and down you men so that people will know that you are a man from the village of a famous chief." Two fighting songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Mwamuwona kambelembele (Have you seen that cunning fellow?)
- 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/10962/156216 , vital:39963 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-02
- Description: A cheerful song sung at parties. The subject matter is very slight but makes a good foundation for a simple melody and equally simple humour. "Have you seen that cunning fellow son of Darash? Peering iut and ducking back again?" Party song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- 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/10962/156216 , vital:39963 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-02
- Description: A cheerful song sung at parties. The subject matter is very slight but makes a good foundation for a simple melody and equally simple humour. "Have you seen that cunning fellow son of Darash? Peering iut and ducking back again?" Party song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Waba waplumu (They have stolen the cassava)
- 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/10962/156234 , vital:39965 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-04
- Description: This is a story about some young lads who were sleeping in an open place down by the lake. The people of the village were complaining that these boys were stealing their goods at night, their soaked cassava, their firewood and ground nuts, in fact everything was blamed upon them. They tried to explain it away, not in a manner altogether satisfactory to the villagers. Story song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- 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/10962/156234 , vital:39965 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-04
- Description: This is a story about some young lads who were sleeping in an open place down by the lake. The people of the village were complaining that these boys were stealing their goods at night, their soaked cassava, their firewood and ground nuts, in fact everything was blamed upon them. They tried to explain it away, not in a manner altogether satisfactory to the villagers. Story song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Koepe kumowa uwepe (Cassava, sweet cassava)
- 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/10962/156207 , vital:39961 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-01
- Description: The song reflects a party of boys who are camping out beside the lake, sleeping out in the open air. They sing about their cassava which they are cooking and the lake fish which they have caught and prepared and handing it around, in fact a typical boy's party. Phuinu-uwepe is cassava which has been soaked in water for a long time. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- 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/10962/156207 , vital:39961 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-01
- Description: The song reflects a party of boys who are camping out beside the lake, sleeping out in the open air. They sing about their cassava which they are cooking and the lake fish which they have caught and prepared and handing it around, in fact a typical boy's party. Phuinu-uwepe is cassava which has been soaked in water for a long time. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Thana ya Solomoni (The judgement of Solomon)
- Authors: Pfumo Tengani , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald District f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156090 , vital:39950 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-10
- Description: The Chief Tengani tells the story of the judgement of Solomon with a true story of his own of 1936, the year he was made chief. There was once a lorry which carried cotton. Now a certain man jumped onto the lorry without the knowledge of the driver. On going through the river the lorry stopped and the man fell off. The lorry backed and the man was run over and killed. But still the driver did not know he was there and it was only afterwards that the people found the body and brought it to the chief Tengani. Thay all say the driver was not to blame as he did not know the man was on his lorry or gave him permission. The case came before the District Commissioner who agreed with the chief. The people did not agree at the time but now they know the chief was right. "A Solomon come to judgement." Story (Ntana).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Pfumo Tengani , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald District f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156090 , vital:39950 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-10
- Description: The Chief Tengani tells the story of the judgement of Solomon with a true story of his own of 1936, the year he was made chief. There was once a lorry which carried cotton. Now a certain man jumped onto the lorry without the knowledge of the driver. On going through the river the lorry stopped and the man fell off. The lorry backed and the man was run over and killed. But still the driver did not know he was there and it was only afterwards that the people found the body and brought it to the chief Tengani. Thay all say the driver was not to blame as he did not know the man was on his lorry or gave him permission. The case came before the District Commissioner who agreed with the chief. The people did not agree at the time but now they know the chief was right. "A Solomon come to judgement." Story (Ntana).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kalulu na Njobvu (Rabbit and Elephant)
- Authors: Pfumo Tengani , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald District f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156099 , vital:39951 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-11
- Description: There was once a rabbit and an elephant. The rabbit promised to pull over the elephant. But the rabbit got the hippopotamus to pull him instead. Those people who deceive each other must be sent to Zomba to prison. A modern moral, based on a well known local folk story. Story (Ntana).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Pfumo Tengani , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald District f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156099 , vital:39951 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-11
- Description: There was once a rabbit and an elephant. The rabbit promised to pull over the elephant. But the rabbit got the hippopotamus to pull him instead. Those people who deceive each other must be sent to Zomba to prison. A modern moral, based on a well known local folk story. Story (Ntana).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Watenga mbengo ndani (Who took the chief's towell?)
- Older men of Njolomole, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Older men of Njolomole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomoe, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154829 , vital:39783 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-03
- Description: This kind of song, they say, was sung at the gathering to remember a dead person. The Chief's towell was a cloth which was wrapped around the blade of a short spear which the chief held in his hand in order to wipe the perspiration off his face while he danced. "Who took the chief's towell, Oyayo! who ever it is, bring back Oyayo! look everywhere where the chief's people are, until you find it." Chitoto obsequies after funeral with small iron bells.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Older men of Njolomole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomoe, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154829 , vital:39783 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-03
- Description: This kind of song, they say, was sung at the gathering to remember a dead person. The Chief's towell was a cloth which was wrapped around the blade of a short spear which the chief held in his hand in order to wipe the perspiration off his face while he danced. "Who took the chief's towell, Oyayo! who ever it is, bring back Oyayo! look everywhere where the chief's people are, until you find it." Chitoto obsequies after funeral with small iron bells.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Wada pita pana pa Angoni (We have come here to the Angoni district)
- Nyungwe men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nyungwe men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Tete f-mz
- Language: Sena , Nyungwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156503 , vital:40010 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-09
- Description: The drums were brought in order. The small time keeper first. All were played with sticks except Tewe, the largest. Dai dance with 5 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Nyungwe men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Tete f-mz
- Language: Sena , Nyungwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156503 , vital:40010 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-09
- Description: The drums were brought in order. The small time keeper first. All were played with sticks except Tewe, the largest. Dai dance with 5 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Doka, wandimara chiperi (They have refused me the beans)
- Nyungwe men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nyungwe men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Tete f-mz
- Language: Sena , Nyungwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156490 , vital:40009 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-08
- Description: The drums were brought in order. The small time keeper first. All were played with sticks except Tewe, the largest. Dai dance with 5 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Nyungwe men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Tete f-mz
- Language: Sena , Nyungwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156490 , vital:40009 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-08
- Description: The drums were brought in order. The small time keeper first. All were played with sticks except Tewe, the largest. Dai dance with 5 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Mtempile
- Nyanja Policemen, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nyanja Policemen , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179114 , vital:39884 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-01
- Description: "The Nyanja, Ngoni, Lomwe, Chewa came and built a temple." It would appear that the singers belong to one of the many separatist African churches. "Mtempile Anyanja, Angoni, Alomwe, Acawa ndza namanga." The four tribes mentioned are all to be found in Nyasaland. African christians are fond of using the word 'temple' in various pronunciations. Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Nyanja Policemen , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179114 , vital:39884 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-01
- Description: "The Nyanja, Ngoni, Lomwe, Chewa came and built a temple." It would appear that the singers belong to one of the many separatist African churches. "Mtempile Anyanja, Angoni, Alomwe, Acawa ndza namanga." The four tribes mentioned are all to be found in Nyasaland. African christians are fond of using the word 'temple' in various pronunciations. Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kaisara (Kaisara)
- Nyanja Policemen, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nyanja Policemen , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178942 , vital:39885 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-02
- Description: "Kaisare, the King of the Jews, he crucified Jesus, he was not afraid of death, he was only afraid of getting old." The men grunt as in Arab songs and this feature may well be residuum from Arab days when they occupied the country around lake Nyasa and traded in slaves. Who Kaisare may be is not clear. Caiphas the high priest perhaps or 'Kaiser' the King. The singers could not elucidate the point. Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Nyanja Policemen , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178942 , vital:39885 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-02
- Description: "Kaisare, the King of the Jews, he crucified Jesus, he was not afraid of death, he was only afraid of getting old." The men grunt as in Arab songs and this feature may well be residuum from Arab days when they occupied the country around lake Nyasa and traded in slaves. Who Kaisare may be is not clear. Caiphas the high priest perhaps or 'Kaiser' the King. The singers could not elucidate the point. Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ndaji! Jize! (Ready! Right!)
- Mulanzi and Malunja, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mulanzi and Malunja , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomole, Ncheu f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155644 , vital:39903 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-14
- Description: Riddles are an ever popular pastime among many tribes. In the distance can be heard young boys, playing a drum over on the other side of the village. The call "Ndaji" is sometimes "Ndagi'. Riddles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Mulanzi and Malunja , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomole, Ncheu f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155644 , vital:39903 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-14
- Description: Riddles are an ever popular pastime among many tribes. In the distance can be heard young boys, playing a drum over on the other side of the village. The call "Ndaji" is sometimes "Ndagi'. Riddles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Wa Ciyawo mkujaliani (The Yao despise me)
- Men and women of Pemba Village, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Men and women of Pemba Village , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Pemba. Salima District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154694 , vital:39765 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-03
- Description: The player of the second drum was blind and had been so since childhood. The Yao despise me when I put on short trousers as if it is for the Mochomanga dance. Tell him to take them off they say. Bari dance with 2 Khunto cylindrical drums, pinned and weighted.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Men and women of Pemba Village , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Pemba. Salima District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154694 , vital:39765 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-03
- Description: The player of the second drum was blind and had been so since childhood. The Yao despise me when I put on short trousers as if it is for the Mochomanga dance. Tell him to take them off they say. Bari dance with 2 Khunto cylindrical drums, pinned and weighted.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Njinga ailepele (The bicycle)
- Men and women of Pemba Village, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Men and women of Pemba Village , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Pemba. Salima District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154685 , vital:39764 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-02
- Description: The player of the second drum was blind and had been so since childhood. The hero of the song apparently went to find work outside Nyasaland in Southern Rhodesia or elsewhere, but on his first journey he failed to bring back with him the coveted bicycle. On his second journey he was successful. Bari dance with 2 Khunto cylindrical drums, pinned and weighted.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Men and women of Pemba Village , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Pemba. Salima District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154685 , vital:39764 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-02
- Description: The player of the second drum was blind and had been so since childhood. The hero of the song apparently went to find work outside Nyasaland in Southern Rhodesia or elsewhere, but on his first journey he failed to bring back with him the coveted bicycle. On his second journey he was successful. Bari dance with 2 Khunto cylindrical drums, pinned and weighted.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Phakachere (Under the Kachere tree)
- Authors: Men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156036 , vital:39944 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-04
- Description: "Kachere tree, kachere tree. The white men are at home under the kachere tree. When riding in aeroplanes, kachere. When making aeroplanes, kachere." Njiri dance for young people with clapping and two small drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156036 , vital:39944 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-04
- Description: "Kachere tree, kachere tree. The white men are at home under the kachere tree. When riding in aeroplanes, kachere. When making aeroplanes, kachere." Njiri dance for young people with clapping and two small drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Tengani madengu (Fetch baskets)
- Authors: M. Njolomole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomoe, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154820 , vital:39782 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-02
- Description: "This is a song, he said, which was sung by the relatitives of the dead chief mourning their great loss. "Take a basket, let us go to the funeral Chief Njolomole has died, he has died Njolomole." This song was sung when the father of the present Chief died in 1929 (March 12th). The baskets, it was explained, refered to the baskets in which the property of the dead chief was carried by the mourners for burial with the chief in his grave. The younger brother of the chief led the singing and the chief himself can be heard singing a verse. The chief's uncle and councillor Robert Gokozera claimed towards the end of the item. Funeral song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: M. Njolomole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomoe, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154820 , vital:39782 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-02
- Description: "This is a song, he said, which was sung by the relatitives of the dead chief mourning their great loss. "Take a basket, let us go to the funeral Chief Njolomole has died, he has died Njolomole." This song was sung when the father of the present Chief died in 1929 (March 12th). The baskets, it was explained, refered to the baskets in which the property of the dead chief was carried by the mourners for burial with the chief in his grave. The younger brother of the chief led the singing and the chief himself can be heard singing a verse. The chief's uncle and councillor Robert Gokozera claimed towards the end of the item. Funeral song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Mkazi wa mulomo (The talkative woman)
- Lonesi Chewane and Joni Hetara, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Lonesi Chewane and Joni Hetara , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa District f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156182 , vital:39960 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-19
- Description: The order of the notes can be changed to facilitate playing certain tunes. Numbers' 1, 2 and 3 from the bass were reversed for this tune. One of the players speaks during the playing. This tune is better and a brilliant piece of musical conversation. Tune without lyrics.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Lonesi Chewane and Joni Hetara , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa District f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156182 , vital:39960 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-19
- Description: The order of the notes can be changed to facilitate playing certain tunes. Numbers' 1, 2 and 3 from the bass were reversed for this tune. One of the players speaks during the playing. This tune is better and a brilliant piece of musical conversation. Tune without lyrics.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958