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A Mdoka (Mdoka and the bee sting)

- R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tumbuka (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chinteche District f-rh
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156225 , vital:39964 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-03
  • Description: Some young men came to see the chief who asked each in turn how their homes were. They said they were all alright except for Mdoka who had been stung by a bee on his lips. This gave rise to a song about his misfortune. The others also told the chief their stories including one about the fish they were catching and he sang a canoe song "Kanye Kanye madoda, Kanye kanye haiye." 'A' before a name is the local honorific equivalent of Mister. Story song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

A sante mwe

- 4 Tumbuka boys, Hugh Tracey

Aliyeli nitauzeni (Aliyeli - greet me!)

- A. Nyambizi and Henga women, Hugh Tracey

Ife totumika (We have been invited)

- Four Tumbuka women, Hugh Tracey

Kamukando (The small spear)

- 8 Tumbuka boys, Hugh Tracey

Kasise (Hair)

- Grace Musisia and Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

Koepe kumowa uwepe (Cassava, sweet cassava)

- R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads, Hugh Tracey

Kumaji kumailo-mailo

- Boys at Dedza Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Kwimba Kalimba (To play the Kalimba)

- E. A. Nkuzana, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: E. A. Nkuzana , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tumbuka (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Mzimba District f-rh
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156273 , vital:39970 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-08
  • Description: "To play the 'Kalimba' is to be happy. I remember long ago when I was a small child when I thought a breast was made of bone. But my mother told me that the breast was not bone, but flesh only. I was fooled long ago, I thought the breast was bone but it is flesh only. Listen my friends, the breast is flesh only." It seems that the obvious meaning of the words is intended to serve a secondary one. Perhaps the revelation of the begining of his natural sex life. Self delectative song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mwamuwona kambelembele (Have you seen that cunning fellow?)

- R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads, Hugh Tracey

Nanga mondithawe (Wherever you go)

- Four Tumbuka women, Hugh Tracey

Nijurireni

- W. Theu, Tembuka boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: W. Theu , Tembuka boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184967 , vital:44294 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-18
  • Description: There was once a child who was sent to bring food to her father in his hut. She asked to come in and he first asked her what relish she had brought; she told him vegetables but she was sent back again to teh kitchen. Each time she came with vegetables she was sent away until the relish provided was meat. He did not want beans and vegetables, only meat-the greedy creature! "Open for me, Ha-he! Open, open ndera ndera As you say, open for me, what have you brought? I have brought porridge. What is the relish? The relish is beans. If the relish is beans, go and eat with your mother! The relish is vegetables. Go and eat with your mother. The relish is meat! Come inside, come inside." Story song
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Para vilipo (If there is anything left)

- 8 Tumbuka boys, Hugh Tracey

Timbenge tingaruwa (Let us sing lest we forget)

- E. A. Nkuzana, Hugh Tracey

Waba waplumu (They have stolen the cassava)

- R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads, Hugh Tracey

Wanijalila kuwaya (He has pushed out to a bad place)

- D. Phiri, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: D. Phiri , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Henga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Mzimba District f-rh
  • Language: Tumbuka/Henga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156291 , vital:39972 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-10
  • Description: "A bad place, he had trapped me in a bad place. Men have given me disease. Men deceive, they have deceived me with money. They gave me a venereal disease. It has finished the children in my home. I sit down and dream of Miliam." This lament is perhaps a strange basis for a dance except as an extension of the thought in dance drama, the equivalent of religious dancin, the extension of the music into movement. Dance song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wezulu walila

- Boys of Dedza Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Akapunda (The conqueror)

- Group of 16 Tonga men and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 16 Tonga men and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Tumbuka , Malawi , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Luvale/Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137382 , vital:37518 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR037-09
  • Description: The leader is Joni Phiri. "Haye Mwazadi mwanozga." "You have done well to come." The Malipenga dance of the Tonga and other tribes of north central Nyasaland was originated, they say, in military drill where it imitates. With African genius for converting what is normally a drudgery into a game, these Tonga made barrack square drilling into a form of enjoyable dance, with opportunities for all to shine in the grace of their movements. The instruments of the mirliton buzzers so that anyone who can sing a Tonga tune can equally well participate in the Malipenga band. Short gourds or horns are used for the higher pitched voices and longer for the bases. 4 Movements of the Malipenga dance, the first 2 with Chandi and Muganda drums, with 12 singing horns (calabash), 1 bass drum laced, cylindrical with 2 beaters.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Ani siboni nimakuba (My great friend)

- Iron Khoma, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Iron Khoma , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Tumbuka , Malawi , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Luvale/Chokwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137303 , vital:37508 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0037-02
  • Description: "Marry me, my dear friend. At our home is Nyasaland, the sand is white as cement. If you go to Lusaka you will find there Aleck Nkhata, the Tonga who comes from Nyasaland, of the same line as myself. Self-delectative nostalgic song with Bangwe board zither with 7 strings, lowest not used.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Anyangwila yanga pano-kwawo (My Anyangwila is going to her mother)

- Group of 4 Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

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