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Mwanaya (This child)

- Chiko Phiri, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chiko Phiri , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald District f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156135 , vital:39955 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-14
  • Description: "The child cries because it is not mine." The father of this seven months old child took his baby in his arms and sang two lullabies, which he said his wife did not know how to sing. The child was as good as gold during the first, but cried all through the second. In spite of the words of the second song, the child was in fact his own. He called himself "Extra Zambezi" for some private reason. Lullaby.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mwee amai (Why mother?)

- Young Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Mwezi mtondo (Month after next)

- Katunga and Mailoso (8 and 6 years old). Son and nephew of the chief, Hugh Tracey

NaBanda naPhiri (Banda and Phiri)

- Young boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156063 , vital:39947 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-07
  • Description: 'Banda and Phiri, I started calling you long ago now you are left behind. A good example of Mang'anja clapping. The language spoken by these Chikunda emigrants into this region from the Zambezi valley near Tete is much mixed up with the local Mang'anja. Njole dance with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Najele (The beads around your neck, Najele)

- Ezra Chimpanda and 2 Chewa men, Hugh Tracey

Namalumbe (Nightjars)

- Young Men and women, Hugh Tracey

Namaye Bikitara wakwere bus (We heard the Bikitara has taken a bus)

- Bikitara Banda and friend, Hugh Tracey

Namwali (The girl)

- Joachim Mwale, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Joachim Mwale , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Pemba f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159001 , vital:40249 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-18
  • Description: It is a commonly held belief that salt tasted or used by women while they cohabit with their husbands has the effect of bringing on conception. A woman having an illicit love affair therefore tries to avoid salt. "The girl who illicitly cohabts with her lover does not touch salt. The tuning of the Bangwe was; 488, 456, 416, 380, 324, 304. The top string (above 488) was not in tune. Self delectative song with Bangwe board zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nana, ndili kupita (Sister, I am going)

- George Zongoloti, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: George Zongoloti , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155703 , vital:39907 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-04
  • Description: "Sister, I am going, keeping crocodiles, fish and everything there as you do! Do not play with young boys or girls. The small boy will kill you and might keep those things I told you about, rice, maize and flour which belong to you. So mind you do not play with them!" The singer keeps some magical objects such as crocodiles and fish with which to make her own magic. The singer warns his sister not to show the children her magical objects or she will be punished for it. Topicla song with Nthikwi drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nanchengwe (The Hamerkop (a bird))

- Small girls under 14 years, Hugh Tracey

Nangule pepe (I am sorry 'Nangule'! (a kind of bird)

- Duncan Nkhalamba and Chewa boys, Hugh Tracey

Nangwe

- Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

Nchuwa (The four row game)

- Donald Mpunda Banda and two Chewa men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Donald Mpunda Banda and two Chewa men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159980 , vital:40363 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-01
  • Description: "Even although you have given me Cinthele cloth, I will still run away to Baloni." Nchuwa is the game with four rows of holes or cups in the ground played with seeds or pebbles, and the sketch is meant to represent an exciting game between friends. It is a game of very ancient orign and is found widely throughout Eastern Africa under a number of different names and rules. It is said to have been imported into Africa by Arabs or people further East as long ago as the 10th century. Sketch-impromptu.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ndachinyuka, Pitoria (I will say no more, Pitoria)

- George Zongoloti and chorus of small girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: George Zongoloti and chorus of small girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155721 , vital:39909 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-06
  • Description: The two people mentioned in the song are imaginary and not actual people. "I will not say any more, Pitoria (sometimes pronounced Vitoria by the singers). For you have no teeth left. "Yes" she said, "but you Bitoni, when you come near you sound like Thomas, you make a noise like a motor car engine. When you laugh you make a noise like a maize mill." Pitoria was an old woman who was married to Bitoni. He told her she was now to old. Topical song with Nthikuri barrel drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ndachiona kale (I saw it long ago)

- Simenti Phiri, Hugh Tracey

Ndaji! Jize! (Ready! Right!)

- Mulanzi and Malunja, Hugh Tracey

Ndayamba dale (I start, darling)

- Young girls and 5 drummers, Hugh Tracey

Ndaza apa ndaima (I am here waiting)

- Bifi Phiri and friend, Hugh Tracey

Ndikati ubwera ulendo waimba wisulo kunjila

- Tweleve elderly women and two drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tweleve elderly women and two drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155766 , vital:39914 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-11
  • Description: "I supposed you would come back from your journey singing as you came along the path. But you have gone for good." A woman is being justifyably caustic about her husband who is going away on a journey presumably leaving her to do all the work. Pairs of singers sing alternately, the second pair repeating what the first initiated. Chitsukulumwe dance with rattles and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ndimgayo Timba (The bird Timba)

- Agnes Maknwalo, Hugh Tracey

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