Sengeledo (Name of a man)
- Dzowa and 3 young Mang'anja boys, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Dzowa and 3 young Mang'anja boys , 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/10962/156018 , vital:39942 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-02
- Description: The instruments were made in 1955. The main xylophone was played by an older boy (about seventeen years). They are very simple, frame xylophones, crudely made. The leader is called Nyanga and the other players are Anamovi. The instrument is three legged. The resonating gourds are fastened alternately up and down as they are too large to place side by side. Two legs are fixed at the bass end and one at the trebler, the structure being so constructed as to lean the instrument over towards the player. The performers were three young boys between the ages of seven and tweleve years. The dance which accompanied this music is a simple ring dance with little action beyond a shuffle. Ulimba dance for young boys and girls with 2 xylophones.
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Dzowa and 3 young Mang'anja boys , 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/10962/156018 , vital:39942 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-02
- Description: The instruments were made in 1955. The main xylophone was played by an older boy (about seventeen years). They are very simple, frame xylophones, crudely made. The leader is called Nyanga and the other players are Anamovi. The instrument is three legged. The resonating gourds are fastened alternately up and down as they are too large to place side by side. Two legs are fixed at the bass end and one at the trebler, the structure being so constructed as to lean the instrument over towards the player. The performers were three young boys between the ages of seven and tweleve years. The dance which accompanied this music is a simple ring dance with little action beyond a shuffle. Ulimba dance for young boys and girls with 2 xylophones.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Be Cheketa (Cut my breast)
- Madura Rabecu and G. Coffee, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Madura Rabecu and G. Coffee , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota District, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153873 , vital:39533 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-10
- Description: There was a man who had no children who frequently went on a journey and when he came back home he used to beat his wife every time with a stick until she sang this song when he stopped beating her, as she was so sincere and honest with him as it was not her fault that she had no child. (Story song)
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Madura Rabecu and G. Coffee , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota District, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153873 , vital:39533 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-10
- Description: There was a man who had no children who frequently went on a journey and when he came back home he used to beat his wife every time with a stick until she sang this song when he stopped beating her, as she was so sincere and honest with him as it was not her fault that she had no child. (Story song)
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- Date Issued: 1958
Kwende kwende ku mpilipili (Go, go to Mpilipili)
- Young Chewa boys (Under 20 years), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Young Chewa boys (Under 20 years) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156894 , vital:40063 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-11
- Description: A strange dance in which the dancers move their necks forward and backward like a chicken walking. The sung music is not easily followed at first until the drums between them simplify the ensemble with their clear crossed rhythms, the one (Kachisi) maintaining the ground rhythm. "Go, go to Mpili where there is an affair starting up between Duri and Diki." Ilala dance with two drums (Mudewa and Kachisi).
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Young Chewa boys (Under 20 years) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156894 , vital:40063 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-11
- Description: A strange dance in which the dancers move their necks forward and backward like a chicken walking. The sung music is not easily followed at first until the drums between them simplify the ensemble with their clear crossed rhythms, the one (Kachisi) maintaining the ground rhythm. "Go, go to Mpili where there is an affair starting up between Duri and Diki." Ilala dance with two drums (Mudewa and Kachisi).
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- Date Issued: 1958
Abuye Zandiombale (Uncle, come and help me to pay credit)
- Tweleve elderly women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Tweleve elderly women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155730 , vital:39910 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-07
- Description: The women make clever use of their gourds, some smacking them and the others grasping them with alternate hands. The gourds with their use of clapping together make facinating rhythmic patterns. Chitsukulumwe dances with gourd rattles and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Tweleve elderly women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155730 , vital:39910 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-07
- Description: The women make clever use of their gourds, some smacking them and the others grasping them with alternate hands. The gourds with their use of clapping together make facinating rhythmic patterns. Chitsukulumwe dances with gourd rattles and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958