Mbaya mwana wane bamutya cimbwe (Mbaya, my child, is called a hyena)

Title: Mbaya mwana wane bamutya cimbwe (Mbaya, my child, is called a hyena)
Creator: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Malawi
Subject: Tumbuka (African people)--Music
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Date Issued: 1957
Date: 1957
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140216
Identifier: vital:37849
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR054-06
Description: A man who was working away from home on the Copper Mines, had a girl sent to him to marry from his own village. But when she arrived she was so ugly he said: "Marry you, never! You look like a hyena!" So the girl went back and told her mother who rushed out of the house shouting to her husband in great hanger: "My child Mbaya has been called a hyena!" From what the Welfare officers say, it appears that this situation is a common experience on the Copperbelt where girls are frequently sent by their parents to get themselves married to their absent young men on the mines, with the same painful rebuff if not acceptable. Humorous song.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:40
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Tumbuka
Rights: International Library of African Music
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

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