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Namalumbe (Nightjars)

- Young Men and women, Hugh Tracey

Nana, ndili kupita (Sister, I am going)

- George Zongoloti, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: George Zongoloti , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155703 , vital:39907 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-04
  • Description: "Sister, I am going, keeping crocodiles, fish and everything there as you do! Do not play with young boys or girls. The small boy will kill you and might keep those things I told you about, rice, maize and flour which belong to you. So mind you do not play with them!" The singer keeps some magical objects such as crocodiles and fish with which to make her own magic. The singer warns his sister not to show the children her magical objects or she will be punished for it. Topicla song with Nthikwi drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nanchengwe (The Hamerkop (a bird))

- Small girls under 14 years, Hugh Tracey

Nanga mondithawe (Wherever you go)

- Four Tumbuka women, Hugh Tracey

Ndachinyuka, Pitoria (I will say no more, Pitoria)

- George Zongoloti and chorus of small girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: George Zongoloti and chorus of small girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155721 , vital:39909 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-06
  • Description: The two people mentioned in the song are imaginary and not actual people. "I will not say any more, Pitoria (sometimes pronounced Vitoria by the singers). For you have no teeth left. "Yes" she said, "but you Bitoni, when you come near you sound like Thomas, you make a noise like a motor car engine. When you laugh you make a noise like a maize mill." Pitoria was an old woman who was married to Bitoni. He told her she was now to old. Topical song with Nthikuri barrel drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ndachiona kale (I saw it long ago)

- Simenti Phiri, Hugh Tracey

Ndaji! Jize! (Ready! Right!)

- Mulanzi and Malunja, Hugh Tracey

Ndaramba miranda kumudzi kwangu (I will have more trouble in my home)

- A. A. C. Lubino and 2 Nyungwe women, Hugh Tracey

Ndarira (I cry)

- Dawusi Chirongo, Hugh Tracey

Ndasaya may angu (I have lost my mother)

- A. A. C. Lubino and 2 Nyungwe women, Hugh Tracey

Ndayamba dale (I start, darling)

- Young girls and 5 drummers, Hugh Tracey

Ndicha Girita pano mufare mufare (I am leaving here, stay happily)

- Saini Murira, Chingaipa Madzikuminga, Zhogi Muzengedza and Saini Madera, Hugh Tracey

Ndikati ubwera ulendo waimba wisulo kunjila

- Tweleve elderly women and two drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tweleve elderly women and two drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155766 , vital:39914 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-11
  • Description: "I supposed you would come back from your journey singing as you came along the path. But you have gone for good." A woman is being justifyably caustic about her husband who is going away on a journey presumably leaving her to do all the work. Pairs of singers sing alternately, the second pair repeating what the first initiated. Chitsukulumwe dance with rattles and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ndimgayo Timba (The bird Timba)

- Agnes Maknwalo, Hugh Tracey

Nga, nga, nga, nda reka (Lift and drop)

- Bauleni Zhuau, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Bauleni Zhuau , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chipwembwe, Fort Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155829 , vital:39921 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-03
  • Description: The drum leader was not satisfied with the pitch of the drums and stopped playing to adjust the amount of wax on two of the drums and then started again while the girls continued to sing. The wax is made of caster oil beans pounded up, it sticks onto the drum heads in spite of the continual beating of sticks and hands. The addition of wax or paste lowers the note of the drum and the removal of quite a small amount of wax raises the note. Thus the drums can be tunned with reasonable accuracy. The players brought more paste on the drum heads than they needed, no doubt because a certain amount is lost in playing and then tuned by removing a certain amount on each head with a curved piece of tin shaped like a spoon. Note the stress upon the final syllable of Reka NdaReka. Likhuba dance with 9 tuned drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ngwasi (Fish eagle)

- 3 Yao women, Hugh Tracey

Njala Makono (Famine this year)

- Sergent Deza and a friend, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Sergent Deza and a friend , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba, Police Headquarters, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Yao
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154721 , vital:39768 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-06
  • Description: The two friends sit on the ground close together and sing into each other's faces with great abandon, loving every moment of it. This style of intricate singing appears to be almost unique to their tribe. "There is famine this year. My wife, why do you cook too much food? Don't worry yourself I know there is a famine this year, but don't worry. Song for initiation of boys, with clapping
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Njinga ailepele (The bicycle)

- Men and women of Pemba Village, Hugh Tracey

Nkhuku zalila, kunja kwaca (The cock crows, it is light outside)

- Four elderly men, Hugh Tracey

  • 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.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nsafu (Part of the Khoran)

- Wodwala Selemani, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Wodwala Selemani , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Salima, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Yao
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154748 , vital:39771 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-09
  • Description: The man introduced himself in his local language before reciting. When it was over he said he did not know the meaning of what he recited. He always recited it in the Mosque with the others. For the meaning we would have to as the great teacher. The sound of chatting in the market can be heard in the background. Recitation introduced in Yao.
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  • Date Issued: 1958
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