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Koko

- Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Chewa women , 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 Lilongwe f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186398 , vital:44494 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-14
Description: These Mfunde songs with their closely echoed phrases follow a well understood pattern with two women leading and the others singing after them. They are sung for rain when the dry season is nearly over
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Date Issued: 1950

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Mande mpa khomo

- Shawa, Govati, Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Shawa , Govati , Chewa women , 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 Lilongwe f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186480 , vital:44503 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-07
Description: "When I die, dig my grave before my door as I do not wish to be buried with all the others." A song for singing on the way home after a drinking party. The two leading singers sing as if they were having a friendly argument pointing at each other and generally helping each other along. The custom of burying a person near his own door or beside his own hut is also found in the Zamgesi River Valley among the Tonga. Drinking song
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Date Issued: 1950

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Mungabe

- Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Chewa women , 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 Lilongwe f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186389 , vital:44493 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-13
Description: "When the rains come, do not steal the beans." This type of closely echoed singing or incantation is typical of the Chewa. Eight women sang the song, five of them with infants at their breasts. Mfunde rain song
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Date Issued: 1950

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Tate o mwale de

- Shawa, Govati, Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Shawa , Govati , Chewa women , 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 Lilongwe f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186469 , vital:44502 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-06
Description: This song is sung by people after drinking on their way home; the crowd echoing the words of the two principle singers. This style of singing is very common among the Nyanja people near Zomba. Drinking song
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Date Issued: 1950

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