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Asimati kotokoto

  • 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 Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159556 , vital:40311 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-01
  • Description: "A Simati stole the money of A Kesi, he stole the money." 'A Kesi' - 'A' is the honorofic prefix, equivalent to the use of 'Mr' in English, when placed before a proper name. This theft occured just one month previously in April 1958 when A Simati is said to have stolen six pounds sent by post from the Mkoma mission to A Kesi, a woman of this village. The case was tried and A Simati was convicted. The woman at once lampooned him in this song for all to hear. Swift community retribution for his crime. Chintali dance with bass drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kundandali ndanda (The hunter)

  • Authors: Justina Banda , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159658 , vital:40322 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-12
  • Description: There was once a man, a hunter called Kundandali who had a wife who tried to stop him leaving the house, saying, "Do not go, you have gunpowder and your gun on your shoulder." But the man was always going away and she always tried to stop him by begging him to put down his gun and his gunpowder and stay at home. The transcription of the vernacular words as written by the singers in both cases is rather uncertain and open to correction. Story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kwa-kwa-kwa umaye (It is dry)

  • Authors: Young men and women of Mwasi's village , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159594 , vital:40315 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-05
  • Description: The Nyau dance, they say is performed in the dry season. The dancers put on rags and cover their faces and heads with feathers or grass masks so that they cannot be recognised. In some cases disobedient girls can be caught and beaten. It is an initiation dance for boys but the women instructors can use them for this purpose. It always appears to be girls who need instruction and never the boys who merely go through their initiation ceremonies. Nyau dance (mask dance) with two drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

M' Sodomo (Sodom was burnt)

  • Authors: Boys of Chief Mwasi's village , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159565 , vital:40312 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-02
  • Description: "The headquaters of our dance team are here at Gwero and we are going to sing the song Sodom", was the introduction by the young leader. "There was a fire in Sodom." This has been a popular dance since 1927 or thereabouts. The dancers alternately sing openly and sing through their Lipenga horns. How the subject of Sodom and its destruction came to be chosen as a dance motif is a mystery. Maganda dance (Part 1) with 12 Malipenga singing horns.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mungabvale

Munthu ukakala wekha (If you are alone)

Mwana wanga (My child)

  • Authors: Edess Nyalongwe , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159681 , vital:40326 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-14
  • Description: There is a Chewa custom that when a girl is old enough she is taught how to become a good wife and mother by a groub of the elder women. Now there was a girl who married but did not have herself properly towards her husband. So he complained to the group of women who took her and taught her again. That was always our custom. This story is in fact, a kind of simple morality story told with the object of impressing upon the youth the necessity of virtue. The singers who wrote out the words of the songs failed to appreciate the sequence of phrases in the verse they sang. Story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ndingindi (The well dressed man)

Nkhanu (The crab)

  • Authors: Miriam Nyalongwe and 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 Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159667 , vital:40325 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-13
  • Description: There was once a crab which was trying to eat the husks of millet and the owner drove it away. When it went back into the water it told its mother that people were driving it away. The mother said "Leave them, they will come to draw water and we will see them." But when they came to draw water they found the crab telling its mother and they were afraid and ran back to the village to tell the boys who came with their bows and arrows to kill the crab, as they were afraid the crab might in some way take its revenge for being denied food. Story.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nkhanu (The crab)

  • Authors: Miriam Nyalongwe and 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 Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159676 , vital:40324 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-13
  • Description: There was once a crab which was trying to eat the husks of millet and the owner drove it away. When it went back into the water it told its mother that people were driving it away. The mother said "Leave them, they will come to draw water and we will see them." But when they came to draw water they found the crab telling its mother and they were afraid and ran back to the village to tell the boys who came with their bows and arrows to kill the crab, as they were afraid the crab might in some way take its revenge for being denied food. Story.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nyandalalani (The disobedient girl)

Sanje

Songa mbiriwiri (Cover yourself)

Tamanga simbi

  • Authors: Boys of Chief Mwasi's village , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159585 , vital:40314 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-04
  • Description: "We have handcuffed them, we of Linga Boma. Although you are proud today, you will see!" The dancers go in groupd called Boma and challenge each other in the dance and in singing with with the Malipenga horns and boast about their performances. The Malipenga were all made out of gourds with mirlton membranes over the small end. The sound quality of the bass singers was good owing to their use of the gourds of adequate size and shape. Their song is a familiar type of boasting to be found among dance teams in most parts of Africa familiar to us. Muganda dance (part 3) with tweleve Malipenga singing horns and drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Tilira ife (We cry for those who left Gwero)

  • Authors: Boys of Chief Mwasi's village , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159574 , vital:40313 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-03
  • Description: "We cry for the boys who have left Gwero (the boma of Kasungu). Such as Kaziyambe Zimba, Mbelere Phiri who went to Lusaka. Stars shone on them, teaching them cleanliness. They are pround in Cape Town." The Muganda dance with Malipenga horns is usually performed in three parts, the first and third parts being with horns and the second, of which this is an example, without horns. Muganda dance (part 2) with brass drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Timange mphwanga pano (Let us settle here properly)

Wezulu walila (The Zulu are crying)

zapoke muchere uno

  • Authors: Foch Manda , Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185534 , vital:44395 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-17
  • Description: A typical song from the Lundazi District which makes use of the local variety of yodeling and chorus. The recording was made in a hall which gives a false acoustic to the song which as a folk song should be heard in the open air. Chiparaparu dance song
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Kubulu wakawa na nyina wakhe

Mancwawa we ndumo

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