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Amandi phikila kholowa (He cooked me sweet potatoe leaves)

- Young boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young boys 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 Ncheu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160098 , vital:40383 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-14
  • Description: Sweet potatoe leaves are frequently used with monkey nuts as a dish in this region, it is said. There was once a man who went to visit a friend who had many fowls. Now expecting that his friend would kill a fowl and cook it for him, he was very disappointed as his friend only cooked sweet potatoe leaves. When he went back home he began to complain saying he would never forget the meanness of his friend in refusing him a fowl. Nthano story for clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Keke, keke garuyo 1 (Yap, yap, the dog barks)

- Four elderly Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Four elderly 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 Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160576 , vital:40478 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-04
  • Description: The Konsolo dance is said to have been performed in the 1930's. Two wives in next door huts call to each other. The one hears the dog bark and calls out the other, "why is the dog barking?" thinking her husband is with her. But the other replies: "No! he is not with me. He is out with that young beauty". (Ndege-aeroplane). A young good looking girl is called 'Ndege' (aeroplane) in the local slang. "Yap, yau, yap, why is the dog barking? Don't you hate beating me because you think our husband is in my house. He is not here because there is Ndege elsewhere." Konsolo women's dance with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ogandaba Nyasisha (He will burn the whole country)

- Group of unmarried Swazi girls, Hugh Tracey

Tototo ine chambila (No, no, not for me)

- Women, Hugh Tracey

Deborah mntaka mama ngendi tshata nawe (Deborah, my dear, I would marry you had I the cattle)

- Young girls and boys of Durban location, Hugh Tracey

Ndaka nyanya kushata mai-weu!

- Majoweni Andireya, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Majoweni Andireya , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Chipungahera f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181738 , vital:43763 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-06
  • Description: The player was about 300 miles from his home district working on the construction of the Kariba dam on the Zambezi river. "I am so very ugly that no one will marry my daughter." As in other communities it is important to launch your daughter as soon as possible. The Ndau Mbira has three manuals but this example has only two, tuned from right to left in descending order. Self delectative song with Mbira dza WaNdau, tin resonator and 26 notes.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mwa mwena dehe-ye-yele

- Gibson Zenzi with Luunda men, Hugh Tracey

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