- Title
- Inu A Nambewe, inu A Phiri (You Nambewa, you Phiri)
- Creator
- Five elderly Chewa men
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk music--Africa
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Songs, Chewa
- Subject
- Songs, Nyanja
- Subject
- Nyanja (African people)
- Subject
- Chewa (African people)
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
- Date Issued
- 1958
- Date
- 1958
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160242
- Identifier
- vital:40425
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR097-09
- Description
- After singing their song they tap their bamboo friction sticks and laugh and blow into the ends of the bamboos. A widow has to put string into her hair for two years after the husband dies, to mourn for him. The wicked old man is egging on the widow to be merry again. When this recording was played to some villagers in a nearby district, the Chief Njolomole was specially delighted to hear the blowing down the bamboo tubes at the end of the performance, an old drinking party custom, it appeared. "You Nambewa, you Phiri (two widows). Have you already taken off your mourning strings before you have finished mourning for your husband. You A Nabetha, and you A Naketha?" Drinking party dance song. Umkwenda with friction sticks.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:03:50
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Nyanja/Chewa
- 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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