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Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140179 , vital:37844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-02
Description: If a man has 2 wives they are jealous of each other; when he goes to see the one, she says: "Go away to your other wife, he goes to see the one, she says: " I a, not your wife-go and see the other one." So in the end he has no wife and doesn't know where to go. This composition is not unlike a Russian folk song. Humorous song.
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140216 , vital:37849 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , 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.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140227 , vital:37850 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-07
Description: The story is about a girl who told her brother-in-law she was going to see her husband on the Copperbelt. But she took a bus in the opposite direction and it was clear that not only had her plans changed, but her affections as well. Humorous song.
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140171 , vital:37843 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-01
Description: The song is addressed to a "gate crasher" who is trying to force himself into a drinking party. The others say: "Why should you drink our beer, after all we paid for it." "Go away, you don't know what you are talking about." Ten men had pooled their resources to buy the beer and then they found an eleventh among them who had not paid. Humorous song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140207 , vital:37848 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-05
Description: There was a man who was walking through the bush when there came a great wind. He thought it was a lion coming and was very frightened. But it was the grass and trees rustling in the wind.
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Date Issued: 1957

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