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Wakazali Inhaminga (She has married at Inhaminga)

  • Authors: George Zongoloti and small girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsu, Port Herald District f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156027 , vital:39943 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-03
  • Description: Inhaminga is the village in Mozambique beyond the Zambezi river from this district about 100 miles away to the south and about half way to the port of Beira. The drum held horizontally between the knees, membrane facing outwards-mirliton upwards, the player sitting on the ground. By raising and lowering his legs slightly the drummer presses the open end of the drum on and off his chest. The lower notes are produced while the oriffice of the drum is off his chest. The drum which had a 7 inch membrane was 12 inches tall. The water-lizard skin was weighted with paste on the inner surface and was attached with wooden pins. Nthikwi dance with cylindrical, weighted drums and mirliton.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wakhala wekha (When you are alone)

Wakuzi (Who spoiled the relish?)

  • Authors: J. W. Gwengwe and 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, Lilongwe, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153676 , vital:39497 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-15
  • Description: "Who has told you to squeeze the caterpillars? Who has told you to prepare the frog? Who has told you to squeeze the chameleon? Who has told you to squeeze the grasshopper? Who has told you to squeeze the snake? Meaning, you have spoiled the relish provided by caterpillars, etc. by squeezing them out instead of leaving them. Of the ones mentioned, the caterpillars, grasshoppers and snakes, but the chameleon definitely inedible. The song which was originally a Nyau dance song is now used as a drinking song. It appears that the creatures mentioned in the song are best cooked in their natural state without being dressed in any way. Drinking song with clapping and struck iron (a hoe) -12.16-.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wakwatira chchabe (You are cross about nothing)

Wammuna munabwela kale (Husband, you came long ago)

  • Authors: Gezani Mwale , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Bimphi, Dowa, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154028 , vital:39555 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-08
  • Description: "My husband, you came long ago. This year give me a child. Father, I want a child. But a red cloth you give to your mother another to your father. The spotted one you give to me." During the rainy season children are forbidden by their mothers to wear red cloth for fear the lightening might strike them. Red cloth, therefore has a bad connotation, which may be reflrcted in this song. A cloth with patterns, flowers or spots is admired and may therefore be lucky. The preoccupation of African people for offspring is clearly seen in this lyric. Self delectative song with Sansi (Mbira).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wamwira mangarangara (If you drink too quickly you get yourself drunk)

  • Authors: Younf Tonga men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Tonga/Sena
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179094 , vital:39859 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-03
  • Description: The four drums used were 1) Mutumba, an open conical drum 37" tall, 11" membrane; 2) Jenje, an open cylindrical drum 14" tall on three legs with 10" head; 3) Miningo karipi-karipi, another conical open drum 25' tall with 9 and 4 quarter head; and a small closed drum, Usindi, 11" tall with 7 and a half head, on a three legged pedestal. The player of the two drums, Mutumba and Jenje, used his right heel to raise and lower the pitch of the Jenje as it lay on the ground beside the longer Mutumba, playing only with his hands. The other two players used sticks. The reeds were imported from the Salisbury district as no such reed grows in this district, they say, except in the Mazoe river nine miles away which was not so good as these. Four sets of end blown flutes (--11,325--). (1) 3 tied together. Katero, pitch 784, 744 and 680 vs (4 and a half" - 5") (2) 3 tied together. Shauriro, 680, 600, 552 vs (5 and a quarter , 6 and a quarter) (3) 2 tied together. Dendera, 504 and 448 vs (7", 7 and a half") (4) 2 tied together. Madobi, 416, 384 vs. (8 and a half, 8 and 3 quarters). Gororambe dance with end blown pipes, drums and rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wanijalila kuwaya (He has pushed out to a bad place)

  • Authors: D. Phiri , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Henga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Mzimba District f-rh
  • Language: Tumbuka/Henga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156291 , vital:39972 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-10
  • Description: "A bad place, he had trapped me in a bad place. Men have given me disease. Men deceive, they have deceived me with money. They gave me a venereal disease. It has finished the children in my home. I sit down and dream of Miliam." This lament is perhaps a strange basis for a dance except as an extension of the thought in dance drama, the equivalent of religious dancin, the extension of the music into movement. Dance song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wano Gambire nyama we Jarusarima (They fry meat in Jersusalem)

  • Authors: Stephen R. 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/10962/154123 , vital:39611 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR080-02
  • Description: The player has taken a Nyasa instrument instead of the local Njari. He explained he found the smaller instrument easier to play inspite of the fact that it had only half the number of notes. He claimed he had tuned it the same as the Njari but in point of fact his scale was one note short appearing to be hexatonic whereas his tribe is known to be heptatonic. The missing note is clearly situated between 212 and 260 vs and might have been approximately 234 to 238 vibrations per second. Humorous song with Mbira.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Waroya mwana (The bewitched child)

Waselo waselo (Jumping, jumping)

  • Authors: Chewa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156954 , vital:40072 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-16
  • Description: A husband complained that his wife was unfaithful to him and worried about his son by this woman, as she would have to leave him if she did not mend her ways. The translation given for Waselo as 'jumping' may indeed be literally incorrect, but it is intended to convey promiscuity in going about with several men. Dance song for Chintala women dance.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wasukula sakwatidwa (Before she is old enough)

  • Authors: Young girls and four drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157910 , vital:40112 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-02
  • Description: "If a girl is not yet a maiden she cannot marry." As the dance progressed the castor oil paste on the bass drum gradually began to shake off the head with the intense percussive movement." Likhuba dance with eight tuned drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

We! Mpati longesheya

  • Authors: Mfihlelwa Magagula , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Zombode f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152209 , vital:39234 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-05
  • Description: It is a rhyme to accompany children's games. The words in this song refer to "a woman who lives across the river." The words are nonsense words. Children's rhymes.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Weighing babies : All Saints Hospital, 1958

Wemithi Masogo uya wutala lonjani (Wemithi Masogo is going to have a baby)

  • Authors: Group of 9 Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Pigg's Peak f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152584 , vital:39312 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR070-09
  • Description: Song sung when working with picks. "Wemithi Masogo is going to have a baby and we do not know what sort of thing she is going to produce." It would appear that Wemithi Masogo was no better that she ought to be and the parternity of her coming child was in doubt. Work song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wena usekananza (You who are sleeping now here)

Wena wamakhos' ezizwe

  • Authors: Group of 8 young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153037 , vital:39375 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-12
  • Description: The singers, who were sitting on the ground, all bent their heads on their folded arms while singing this song. It is the first opening movement of this dance before actully dancing. The dance itself is a variation of the Ndlamu stamping dance found all through Zululand and as far south as Thabankulu in the Transkei. "Nawe Mawati nyi Nkosi ka Hhohho. Youn men's dance. Ugunkwaya.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wena wamakhosi esizwe (You lord of the people)

Wenda m'manja manja (Go in the hands)

Wezulu walila

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