Anya vindelu tayani uyanga (Be careful, you who wear beards)
- Authors: Jefaserase Lungu and 4 Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Zambia Roan Antelope Mine, Northern Rhodesia f-za
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154947 , vital:39796 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-16
- Description: There is a belief that those who wear moustaches or beards are given to the practise of witchcraft. And the song warns them to be careful or they will not receive proper burial when they die, but their bodies will be thrown away in the bush. The leader of this song of Ngoni dancers was a much older man than the dancers. Mbanda dance song with leg rattles.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Musengu
- Authors: Saini Murira, Chingaipa Madzikuminga and Zhogi Muzengedza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Sena (African people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District f-rh
- Language: Sena , Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156559 , vital:40020 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-15
- Description: A lovely and typical melody of the district in this north eastern section of Southern Rhodesia. The Matebe were played without their deme resonators. The range of these instruments is over 3 octaves. When he heard himself on the recording the leader Sani said, "I can die now, it does not matter, because I am inside that (record) now." "Why are you not consistent? You say one thing today and another tomorrow." Range of the instrument:- 79 to 688 vs. 3 octaves - 148. Mondoro song for ancestral rites with 3 Matebe dza Mondoro.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958