Abale ndutani (Brother, what shall I do with my life. Can I cut it?)
- 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/10962/155739 , vital:39911 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-08
- 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
- 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/10962/155739 , vital:39911 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-08
- 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
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.
- Full Text: false
- 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
Unali mpepara kale wadodoma ndi mfuti
- 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/10962/155775 , vital:39915 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-11
- Description: "A long time ago there was a man with a gunwho could not shoot and always missed." The failure of this hunter to bring home the meat by continually missing his quarry has been perpetuated in this song although the name of the hunter concerned has long since been forgotten. The two drums were barrel shaped, weighted, and with mirlitons (locallly called Mvema). Chitsukulumwe dance with 2 horizontal double ended barrel drums, rattles and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- 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/10962/155775 , vital:39915 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-11
- Description: "A long time ago there was a man with a gunwho could not shoot and always missed." The failure of this hunter to bring home the meat by continually missing his quarry has been perpetuated in this song although the name of the hunter concerned has long since been forgotten. The two drums were barrel shaped, weighted, and with mirlitons (locallly called Mvema). Chitsukulumwe dance with 2 horizontal double ended barrel drums, rattles and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Melo (Name of a man)
- Young girls and 4 drummers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Young girls and 4 drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chipwembwe, Fort Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155811 , vital:39919 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-01
- Description: The drums are carved out of Mutondo wood (one of Sokosa wood) cut locally on the plain. The maker Bauleni made No. 5 as long ago as 1930. The others are more recent. The membranes are of ox hide. The dance is well performed by the young girls who stand in a row or semicircle near the drums and each comes out in turn to do a solo dance, a clever rhythmic routine ending with a sharp pelvic jerk. As one girl finishes another immediately takes her place. The drums are all played with curved wooden beaters except the 2 bass drums numbers 8 and 9 which are played with hands. Some of the girls held clappers and one a tin rattle. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Young girls and 4 drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chipwembwe, Fort Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155811 , vital:39919 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-01
- Description: The drums are carved out of Mutondo wood (one of Sokosa wood) cut locally on the plain. The maker Bauleni made No. 5 as long ago as 1930. The others are more recent. The membranes are of ox hide. The dance is well performed by the young girls who stand in a row or semicircle near the drums and each comes out in turn to do a solo dance, a clever rhythmic routine ending with a sharp pelvic jerk. As one girl finishes another immediately takes her place. The drums are all played with curved wooden beaters except the 2 bass drums numbers 8 and 9 which are played with hands. Some of the girls held clappers and one a tin rattle. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Mukadzi wanga (My wife)
- Young girls and 4 drummers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Young girls and 4 drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chipwembwe, Fort Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155820 , vital:39920 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-02
- Description: The drums are carved out of Mutondo wood (one of Sokosa wood) cut locally on the plain. The maker Bauleni made No. 5 as long ago as 1930. The others are more recent. The membranes are of ox hide. The dance is well performed by the young girls who stand in a row or semicircle near the drums and each comes out in turn to do a solo dance, a clever rhythmic routine ending with a sharp pelvic jerk. As one girl finishes another immediately takes her place. The drums are all played with curved wooden beaters except the 2 bass drums numbers 8 and 9 which are played with hands. Some of the girls held clappers and one a tin rattle. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Young girls and 4 drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chipwembwe, Fort Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155820 , vital:39920 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-02
- Description: The drums are carved out of Mutondo wood (one of Sokosa wood) cut locally on the plain. The maker Bauleni made No. 5 as long ago as 1930. The others are more recent. The membranes are of ox hide. The dance is well performed by the young girls who stand in a row or semicircle near the drums and each comes out in turn to do a solo dance, a clever rhythmic routine ending with a sharp pelvic jerk. As one girl finishes another immediately takes her place. The drums are all played with curved wooden beaters except the 2 bass drums numbers 8 and 9 which are played with hands. Some of the girls held clappers and one a tin rattle. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kalolo (Kalolo's hunger)
- Young girls and 5 drummers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Young girls and 5 drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Fort Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155865 , vital:39925 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-07
- Description: It appears that Kalolo had no food in his house and went hungry. The 1st drummer plays No's. 1 and 2. The 2nd drummer, the Chief drummer plays No's. 2 to 6. The 3rd drummer plays No. 6 and 7. The 4th drummer plays No. 8. The 5th drummer plays No. 9. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Young girls and 5 drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Fort Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155865 , vital:39925 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-07
- Description: It appears that Kalolo had no food in his house and went hungry. The 1st drummer plays No's. 1 and 2. The 2nd drummer, the Chief drummer plays No's. 2 to 6. The 3rd drummer plays No. 6 and 7. The 4th drummer plays No. 8. The 5th drummer plays No. 9. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ndayamba dale (I start, darling)
- Young girls and 5 drummers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Young girls and 5 drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Fort Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155874 , vital:39926 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-08
- Description: A certain girl was complaining about not having her own house, so her young man then promised to start building it so that they could get married. The immense percussive sound of the nine drums completely drowns the voices of the girls only a few yards away. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Young girls and 5 drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Fort Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155874 , vital:39926 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-08
- Description: A certain girl was complaining about not having her own house, so her young man then promised to start building it so that they could get married. The immense percussive sound of the nine drums completely drowns the voices of the girls only a few yards away. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Mwana wa Namwali (Child of Namwali)
- Young Men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Young Men and women , 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/10962/156054 , vital:39946 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-06
- Description: "The child of Namwali will not sleep today. The child of an older woman, will not sleep today. Will not sleep today. I will 'wage war' at the end of the year." The words 'wage war' are a euphemism for the marriage bed. The song is a warning to a girl to 'go straight' and not to cheapen herself with men. The word 'Namwali' usually refers to a virgin. Chiponda dance with clapping and 3 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Young Men and women , 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/10962/156054 , vital:39946 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-06
- Description: "The child of Namwali will not sleep today. The child of an older woman, will not sleep today. Will not sleep today. I will 'wage war' at the end of the year." The words 'wage war' are a euphemism for the marriage bed. The song is a warning to a girl to 'go straight' and not to cheapen herself with men. The word 'Namwali' usually refers to a virgin. Chiponda dance with clapping and 3 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Namalumbe (Nightjars)
- Young Men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Young Men and women , 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/10962/156045 , vital:39945 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-05
- Description: "Nightjars, nightjars, my girl walk nicely. Nightjars, my girl, when it is dark walk nicely. Njiri dance
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Young Men and women , 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/10962/156045 , vital:39945 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-05
- Description: "Nightjars, nightjars, my girl walk nicely. Nightjars, my girl, when it is dark walk nicely. Njiri dance
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958