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Nagunda waka ine

- Tumbuka women and men in background, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tumbuka women and men in background , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185132 , vital:44331 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-10
  • Description: The Tumbuka songs sung by these people of mixed Ngoni and descent are quite distinctive and unlike the usual Ngoni songs. Each one is sung in a separate and clearly defined mode. "All this pounding for nothing! What else can I do to please my man?" Note the constant rise in pitch with each verse, apparently caused by the sharpening of the last note in each stanza in keeping with the mode. Pounding song with mortar and 2 pestles
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Namfikilankhu

- Taines Chirwa, Nancy Luhana, Tumbuka girls, Hugh Tracey

Namfikilankhu

- Chirwa, James, Mwenela, Kaunda, Dandy Boys and Young girls, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Namfikilankhu

- Taines Chirwa, Nancy Luhana and Tumbuka girls, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Nanga Nigiye

- Timeyo Mwandila and his wife, Performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ncembele imbi kamphundu

- Maluba Mwale, Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Maluba Mwale , Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chiundasi f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184653 , vital:44245 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-10
  • Description: The slight pauses in the song are the points where the bow of bamboo needed a little more spittle, necessitating its removal from the string. Most simple string lutes of this kind are bowed with a sisal bow, but occassionaly, as in this case, with a short lenght of bamboo, a sliver taken from the outside of the stalk. Instead of natural rezin the players use spittle. Humorous song with Karigo one stringed lute
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ndalame ndi satana

- Beti Kamanga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Beti Kamanga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184615 , vital:44241 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-06
  • Description: "Young men go to Johannesburg to look for money, Money is the devil! Even Jesus was sold for thirty shillings." Money, even on the beautiful shores of Lake Nyasa, is still 'the root of all evil.' 'Chuma' or 'ndalama' is money. 'Chuma chatimara' - money spoils us. Topical song, with Bangwe Raft Zither, 7 strings
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ndaluza ine

- Maluba Mwale, Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

Ndamutemba Nyanja

- Ganizani Nyirenda, Hugh Tracey

Ndarama zao kusowa

- Benson Phiri, Chewa men, Tracey, Hugh

Ndilandile kalata kwa Masula

- Falesi Phiri, Chewa women and girls, Tracey, Hugh

Ndipeko kayuni karimbula

- Shonga, Nezala, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Shonga, Nezala , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi city not specified f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/308044 , vital:58872 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP2433-XYZ5951
  • Description: Indigenous music
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ndipeko kayuni karimbula

- Nezala Shonga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nezala Shonga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mukotsama f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185326 , vital:44365 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-09
  • Description: The singer remarks upon the cleverness of the whitemen in fighting with planes and guns. "Zekaria my friend, they even fly by night." At the end of the song he calls out "I have played very well! It is finished." Humorous aong with Bango board zither
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ngopakamisela amehlo ami

- Dickson Tembo and Ngoni men and women, performer not specified, Mawelera Tembo, Tracey, Hugh

Nidapalamula I

- Mami Nakwenda, Belifa Nyabanda, Two Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

Nidapalamula II

- Mami Nakwenda, Belifa Nyabanda, Two Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

Nkahwa na dada

- Ngoni men, performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Nkhawa na dada

- Jere, Joel, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Jere, Joel , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi city not specified f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/301213 , vital:58022 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP2217-XYZ5647a
  • Description: Indigenous music
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Nkhawa na dada

- Joel Jere, Ngoni men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Joel Jere , Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Nkata Bay f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185047 , vital:44321 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-01
  • Description: The game sung here by men is usually played by children with two logs on the ground about 3 feet apart with another log between them like the letter H. The child lies along this third log and is bumped by the the others onto the first two at head and foot. This kind of singing game, they say has been done for twenty years or more. Singing game for children, with sticks beaten on the ground
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nkhopa lero

- Widisoni Mazuku, Tumbuka men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Widisoni Mazuku , Tumbuka men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185543 , vital:44396 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-18
  • Description: This is an exhibition dance done by one or more dancers for the entertainment of the crowd. The drummers are men, friends of the solo dancer and the women of the village sing his dance song for him. His dance consists of a series of rhythmic shakes particularly from his waist down. He wears African made iron bells below the knee and above the ankle. Vimbuza dance song with 2 Goblet Mpanje drums and Mangwanda bells
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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