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Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134064 , vital:37067 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-06
Description: "When you drink beer, it sparkles and tingles against your tonsils! When the beer is ready you must send a boy round to tell your friends."
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134028 , vital:37061 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-02
Description: The song is about a man who brought his drum to a party. Unfortunately someone put his foot through it, and thereafter it produced some very strange noises which the leader imitates in the course of the song
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134037 , vital:37063 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-03
Description: A man asked his wife for some monkey nuts and she refused to give them to him. One day he hid himself and found the pot where she kept them and ate them all. Whe she discovered this, she reproached him and said: "Why didn't you ask me, I would have given them to you." "Ah, said the man, but when I asked you the first time you refused."
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134019 , vital:37060 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-01
Description: The song is about the long-tailed widow-bird who found it impossible to manage his long tail when he tried to settle on a perch. The leader makes a series of strange sounds representing the great difficulty the small bird is having in trying to balance itself. The bird in question is the long-tailed paradise bird
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134046 , vital:37064 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-04
Description: The song is supposed to be sung by the fore-fathers of the tribe, who say: "We still know how to drink!" In the song, the leader was Smart Chigwamba.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134051 , vital:37065 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-05
Description: The song is about a woman who has gone to market and left her child shut up in the house, and the noise it makes.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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