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Mpaka (The Cat)

- Eddington Kwanjana and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Eddington Kwanjana and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mzengera, Lilongwe, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153962 , vital:39548 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-01
  • Description: The response after each phrase of the story is "Tirirose". S. "Mai tsegulire, mai tsegulire, CH. Kayendayenda eyaye kayenda. S. Ndatsala ndeka, ndiribe mai, CH Kayendayenda eyaye kayenda." A cat whose mother was named Damati lived in a forest where there were hyenas who wanted to eat the cats, and the cats did their best to protect themselves. The hyena (fai) started a dance and planned to eat whoever came to see ot. The cat had rattles on his legs and his mother taught him a song to sing whenever he got into trouble. The cat went to the hyena's dance and escaped into the mortar when the hyena wanted to eat him. Cat got at hyena's eyes, scratched them out and escaped. Story and song (Nthanu).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mwana wanga (My child)

- Edess Nyalongwe, Hugh Tracey

  • 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

Nyandalalani (The disobedient girl)

- Edess Nyalongwe and Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Thano ya Timba (The story of Timba 'small bird')

- Edwin Tengani, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Edwin Tengani , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157939 , vital:40131 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-05
  • Description: "Once there was a small bird called Timba. Timba made his living on a certain tree called Nkankande. He put a notice on the tree because he knew that the tree was beside the main path which all the animals took to drink water at the river. The notice said "Everyone who passes must look out because mu hut is here, anyone who does not heed my notice will die." After a while the elephants passed by and knocked down Timba's nest because the Nkankande tree is the natural food of elephants. At the time Timba was away looking after his cotton field. When he got back his house had gone. From the foot prints all around he knew it was the elephants and he said "I will see them on their way back". When the elephants came along Timba said, "which of you broke down my house?" "He had better confess at once or one of you will die, I am sure." Before the elephants arrived home one of them was already unhappy and his friend asked him what was the matter. "I am unhappy about what Timba said to us." He replied, "well if you are the one who spoiled Timba's nest we had better go back and tell him." But he refused and later that day he lay down and died. Messages were sent far and wide that an elephant had died and all the animals came to attend his funeral. Timba knew that the elephant had died on account of his notice, so when he came to the funeral Timba said, "I warned you about my tree, so let this be a warning to everyone that it is better to obey than to disobey because in this way a young man can make bad things right again." Story.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ufuno musebeti (He wants work)

- Efraim Hlope and three friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Efraim Hlope and three friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock Mine f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152992 , vital:39370 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-07
  • Description: This is a humorous sketch of a boy whi is looking for work, how he is bullied into indiscretions by his friends and how he gets out of his dilemma. Excellently performed by amateur actors who know how to use their voices to good effect. Sketch.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Umkulumo yase kaya (Home talk)

- Efraim Hlope and three friends, Hugh Tracey

Kumtandizi (Mtandizi is not sorry)

- Eight Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Kumenda Sanabwere (He has not come to the garden)

- Eight elderly women and two drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Eight 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/10962/155793 , vital:39917 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-14
  • Description: Kwakwala stayed out in his garded an did not come back into the village as they went off to see what he was doing. He was dressed only in leaves and even ate leaves. When they got to his garden he was not there but at a place where an elephant had died and he was eating it. "He has not come to the garden, I thought I might go and see. He has not come. The elephant died at Magala, I wanted to see it, Kwakwala." The gourd rattles themselves give their name Chitsukulumwe to the dance which they accompany. Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles, drums and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Gebede-gebede ulendo wasabwera (Pack-pack, to go and not return)

- Eight elderly women and two drummers, Hugh Tracey

Wenda m'manja manja (Go in the hands)

- Elefala Jeremiah Mbewe, Hugh Tracey

Lote-lote (Lote)

- Elefala Jeremiah Mbewe, Hugh Tracey

Ngoza (The disobedient girl)

- Elias Mengezi and Chewa boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Elias Mengezi and Chewa boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kongwa, Dowa, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153980 , vital:39550 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-03
  • Description: A man had a disobedient child named Ngonza, who would not do the work her father or mother gave her to do. The mother put her into a mortar and pounded her into powder and then threw her away. She was carried away to the lake by the rain. Ngoza's younger sister went to the lake side together with other children. All the others picked up their pots but Ngoza's sister could not and sang her song, crying for Ngoza to come and help her. Ngoza, having been made whole again by a crocodile to be his wife, came out of the water to help her sister. The village people then came to catch Ngoza and took her home, but the crocodile dug a hole from the water underground all the way to the village and took Ngoza back again. Story song (Nthanu).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Sikati wena ilya bamba lo fourpiece shiya lo two piece la lo ma piccanie (When you eat take four pieces, but leave two for the children)

- Elias Silaule and Edward Mawelele, Hugh Tracey

Ichinenjane lapa mkomponi (How do you get on in the compound)

- Elias Silaule and group of 7 Shangaan men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Elias Silaule and group of 7 Shangaan men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Tsonga , Ronga language , Tsonga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Manica f-mz
  • Language: Ronga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153091 , vital:39392 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR074-03
  • Description: The song is about working on the mine. A certain man with a bald head figures largely and one of the episodes in the song is about how the singers saw this bald head shinning like glass. So one of them hit it to seeif it would break, but it bled instead. This skilled form of unison singing must demand considerable rehearsal to get it perfect. It is usually gay, rhythmic and cleverly syncopated eben breaking into speech for dramatic effect as in this example. Kwaya topical song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Jile ngoma (This is the song)

- Elias Silaule and group of 7 Shangaan men, Hugh Tracey

Ilele dona rabavu

- Elias Silaule and group of 7 Shangaan men, Hugh Tracey

Songa mbiriwiri (Cover yourself)

- Elizabeth Banda and Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Ndingindi (The well dressed man)

- Elizabeth Banda and Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Godo (Bones)

- Esteri Shumba and 4 Karanga women, Hugh Tracey

Hama dza warumi (The husband's relatives)

- Esteri Shumba and a group of Karanga men and women, Hugh Tracey

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