Akanji gele maleza (Go and get a razor)
- Authors: Young Chewa boys (Under 20 years) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156923 , vital:40068 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-13
- Description: When a man dies they shave his head, hence the call for a razor when the moment of death seems near. "Go bring a razor. My father is dying and he he is crying too much today." The Nudewa drum was cylindrical with a rectangular hole cue in the side, with three feet. The Kachisi drum was conical, open ended. Ilala dance with two drums (Mudewa and Kachisi).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
I have done a film in the moon
- Authors: Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, English , Folk music , Africa South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Northern Transvaal f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153259 , vital:39425 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-11
- Description: The English in which this song is couched is soemwhat original and unorthodox and so is the nostalgic and ambitious sentiment expressed with its reference to the make-believe world of the cinema-the most important single art from influence in the young lives of the performers. The citrus estate for whom they work and where they were born and brought up provides regular free cinema shows for their emplyoees. Party song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958