Naba baNgoni bagwaza ngomkhonto (The Ngoni fight with spears)
- Authors: Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160835 , vital:40551 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-09
- Description: This item was recorded in the Eastern Transvaal where the performers had come to work on a citrus estate. In spite of over a century of osolation from the main Ngoni peoples, these Ngoni of Nyasaland still retain in their music, dancing and customs, the traits of their distant relatives in the South. Musically it is interesting to note that many Ngoni seem to be able to sing in either the pentatonic modes of the Zulu groups or adopt the heptatonic modes of their mother's people who have married into the Ngoni clans. Ngoma wedding song with stamping and hand clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Nanga nigiye (If I can dance)
- Authors: Timeyo Muandila and his wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mbelwa f-mw
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160853 , vital:40554 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-11
- Description: The Ngoni fighting traditions still linger on in this district although all the organisation has vanished. The Chief is still called 'Inkosi' and they greet hum with 'Bayete'. The Gubu bow in Natal is a large unstressed bow held vertically with the left hand near the lower end and beaten with a light stick. The string is stopped with the backs of the first and second fingers of the left hand. It is still foumd in the Zululand played by elderly people only and undoubtedly came up to Nyasaland with the Ngoni invasion of Jiri and Gomani clans in the early part of the 19th century. The solo dance 'ukugiya' performed by Zulu or Ngoni men in front of the line of dancers, is usually acompanied by the recitation of declamation of the dancers personal praises, on important personal right. Fighting sonf with Gubu musical bow.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Wezulu walila (The Zulu are crying)
- Authors: Gordon Mwale , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160844 , vital:40552 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-10
- Description: A dance often the traditional Ngoni style which is clearly related to similar tunes still performed by the Nguni (Zulu) people of Natal. Ngoma dance song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958