Chawaiye-chawaiye (Married-married)
- Authors: 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/10962/155584 , vital:39896 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-10
- Description: A man sings happily that the libolo of cattle is now in his hands, the bride price paid over to him for his daughter Lili by his new son-in-law. "My cattle, I am now lucky, I have now got the cattle with their heads facing towards my place. Oyayo !" Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Chinkanda amayi (The woman's beads)
- Authors: Three young Nyanja men , 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/10962/155504 , vital:39888 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-05
- Description: This kind of performance between three friends is the next step from Nthano story telling, towards light opera, but without a solid theme except the all too common subject of borrowed money. "Work Tsotsi, its your habit to work at night and come late for your food, when it is cold. Tsosti boys and girls eat their food cold." "One man had borrowed money from the other. He hedged when asked where it was, saying "It was given to so and so to give back to him." "This woman has a lot of beads. Never mind even if she had beads all the way from her waist to her feet, it would do me no good, because wise men's wives do not have beads around their waists. So better to have my wife without them." Sketch.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Khanyisa Gura (Mother)
- 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
Ndaji! Jize! (Ready! Right!)
- 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
Nkhuku zalila, kunja kwaca (The cock crows, it is light outside)
- Authors: Four elderly men , 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/10962/155624 , vital:39900 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-12
- Description: It is likely that this old drinking song came from the Ndau of Southern Rhodesia and Mozambique when this Gomani branch of the Ngoni people came up through their territory capturing wives on their way north about 1830 A.D. Drinking song (Mkhwendo) with 4 bamboo friction sticks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Thu ndangalinga (The slain child)
- Authors: Chinamali and young children , 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/10962/155635 , vital:39901 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-13
- Description: A certain man had gone to another district to get married. While he was still there his wife had a child. He decided to return to his own country, but on the way they found it difficult to carry the child. They killed him and put him in a basket. The blood of the child turned into a bird. It flew off and perched on a tall grass and started singing, "You man and woman, you are evil, you have killed a child! Hear the child crying for milk." Story (Nthano).
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- Date Issued: 1958