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Dzombe Rija (My Grasshopper)

E. Gukuku (Pack up)

  • Authors: M. Runesu Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154179 , vital:39619 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR080-07
  • Description: This singer makes up all his accompaniments for his humorous songs and sketches which are in the true line of rombe minstrel material. This wife had nothing to do, so she packed up her clothes and left. The people there did not like her. (Wife) "Pack up quickly, pack up quick. Is this the reason why you took me from my homw? Why do you give me this sorrow? This tray of my mother's, I will never leave it here. This that I brought with me from my home." (Man) "Take it away! Do you think I cannot get another wife?" (Wife) "Your mother gave you a dog's heart to eat! Your mother! Had I known all this I would never have come." (Mother-in-law) "Leave her, let her go! Do you think all women are as bad as her?" (Man) "You, mother, you gave me bad advice." Humorous song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ede Amalume (Oh, Uncle! Six speeder)

Ede! Ede!

Elo-e mokwata-e (Hullo, marry)

  • Authors: Losani Malewa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Lomwe (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mkanda f-mw
  • Language: Lomwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160670 , vital:40496 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-12
  • Description: "All right! let him go and get himself married, he is far too young but let him try. He will come howling home again." "Hullo, marry! Let him go and marry. And he will come back howling." The Tangara bowed lute had one string. It was tuned by means of a tuning peg and a straining loop of string for more a accurate pitch. From straining string to bridge was 13 inches and the lute itself was two and a half inches overall. The resonating body was five and half inches tall gourd with a hole pierced in one side. Self delectative song with one-stringed stressed lute Thangara.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Elube (Elube the beautiful girl)

Famba mpore usadngana mumbuyo (Go over carefully, do not look behind you)

Fedina (Name of a man)

  • Authors: Jason Kafunda and Chewa boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mwadzama, Kotakota, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153990 , vital:39551 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-04
  • Description: "Fedina and John went to Salisbury. On their way John killed Fedina to get hold of his cloth which was better than his own. From Fedina's blood sprang a bird which sang a song telling of Fedina's death. So John was killed because of what he did, and the bird disappeared into the ground as the blood had done." The bird in circumstances such as this is constantly featured as a form of conscience or sense of guilt which brings the malefactor to justice. The blood of his friend brings the murderer to his end. "Fedina. Fedina is dead. He was dead because of a cloth."
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Fisi ndi nkhwazi (The hyena and the fish eagle)

  • Authors: Mfundo Phiri , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Namira f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157972 , vital:40135 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-06
  • Description: A hyena and a fish eagle promised to have a competition to race to Salisbury. Nkhwazi said, "I will keep on flying all the way", and Afisi said, "I will keep running along the road". Now the hyena died before he reached Salisbury and the fish eagle said, "There you are! you cannot compete with me now you are dead." So at Shangara where hyena died the fish eagle was clearly the winner. So hyena having died the fish eagle decided to go back home and report to his friends. Shangara is a small border post a few miles north of the Zambezi river on the main road from the valley up into Southern Rhodesia. Nthano story with song and Bangwe board zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Gebede-gebede ulendo wasabwera (Pack-pack, to go and not return)

Godo (Bones)

Gulu wangu (My dog)

  • Authors: Chikaku and friend , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota District, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153942 , vital:39539 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-14
  • Description: There was once a man who went hunting and caught a buck. He gave the liver and innards to his mother-in-law to cook. She not only cooked them but ate them all herself and tried to hide the fact from her son-in-law who sang to his dog. "Galu wanga, galu wanga n'kamanga. Wanimana matumbo apatsa mkomweni wa lero kamangeni galu." "My dog, my dog, I am going to tie my dog to a tree so that he never goes again to hunt in the bush." "They have not given me the innards, they have given the meat to another. Son-in-law " Go and tie your dog to a tree." Story and song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Gulugufe (The butterfly)

Gunde (Gunde and the crocodile)

  • Authors: Kezia Chilumpha and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160251 , vital:40426 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-10
  • Description: "Gunde, yes, who is the man brave enough to take the 'wife' of the crocodile. There was once a certain woman who killed her only child and buried her outside the hut. After a while only the skelton remained and the rain fell and washed away the earth, exposing a leg. A crocodile nearby dug up all the bones joined them together and made another child out of them. "Who has done this" the woman cried. Now the child grew up with the crocodile and became a beautiful girl. So the mother sang. "Who is brave enough to take my daughter from the crocodile." No one in the village was brave enough so the crocodile kept his girl from himself. The mother continually came to the lake to sing for her daughter. One day the daughter heard her mother and as the crocodile was away she came out and went with her to the village. But the crocodile came and begged for the girl as he himself had brought her up and given her life. The mother could not refuse him and so the daughter went back to the lake and married the crocodile. Nthano story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Halenu mina haleno (Here I am)

Hama dza warumi (The husband's relatives)

Handina mwana (I have no child)

  • Authors: Pineas Hungwe , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154355 , vital:39651 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-11
  • Description: I have no child. But if you want to see a jackal go along the river bank and you will find a jackal there. Jackal, what killed my child? Jackal, will you be my child? The singer is blind and as with so many blind musicians he lets his fancy roam into poetry. Who and what the jackal might represent can only be conjecture. The lack of a child is a continual source of lamentation among many Africans. Lament with Chizambi musical bow.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Huwa lero (Huwa-today)

  • Authors: 7 small boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kachere, Dedza, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153551 , vital:39477 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-03
  • Description: Herd boys are one of Africa's sources of original songs. The life of thee youngsters is full of the intimate knowledge of creatures and their ways. The discomforts of nature and the constant search for food or sweet things. A herd boy's education is second to none at that tender age and the pleasures are never forgotten. They use a well known proverb concerning their food, referring to their work for other people's cattle. "The one who cooks does not eat the food." "Huwa, somebody's child is your child, so do not be jealous of him." Herd boy song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

I have done a film in the moon

  • Authors: Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, English , Folk music , Africa South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Northern Transvaal f-sa
  • Language: English
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153259 , vital:39425 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-11
  • Description: The English in which this song is couched is soemwhat original and unorthodox and so is the nostalgic and ambitious sentiment expressed with its reference to the make-believe world of the cinema-the most important single art from influence in the young lives of the performers. The citrus estate for whom they work and where they were born and brought up provides regular free cinema shows for their emplyoees. Party song with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ichinenjane lapa mkomponi (How do you get on in the compound)

  • Authors: Elias Silaule and group of 7 Shangaan men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Tsonga , Ronga language , Tsonga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Manica f-mz
  • Language: Ronga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153091 , vital:39392 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR074-03
  • Description: The song is about working on the mine. A certain man with a bald head figures largely and one of the episodes in the song is about how the singers saw this bald head shinning like glass. So one of them hit it to seeif it would break, but it bled instead. This skilled form of unison singing must demand considerable rehearsal to get it perfect. It is usually gay, rhythmic and cleverly syncopated eben breaking into speech for dramatic effect as in this example. Kwaya topical song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958
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