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Tumbuka (African people)

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Hanzi bomu bomu. Kulowa, 1st movement

- Young Chewa men, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Young Chewa men , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187281 , vital:44595 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR192-07
Description: The singers explained "The 'Hanzi bomu bomu' song is our latest composition which is being sung all over the country. Please make sure you learn how to sing it." "Hanzi bomu bomu" means 'Hand bombs' or 'hand grenades.' This refers to the 1939-45 war. Many of the singers were in the K. A. R. (Kings African Rifles) but they had only a distant and hazy idea of the effect of explosives. Muganda dance with Malipenga singing horns (-11.13-) and 2 bass drums
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Date Issued: 1950

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Hinya nade

- Gindiloni Ngoma, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Gindiloni Ngoma , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
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/10962/185240 , vital:44356 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-02
Description: The Ugubu was a popular instrument with the Zulu of Natal several generations ago but few are now left in Natal. With the exception of one or two minor details this instrument is in the same as that of the Zulu. The chief modification is the use of a straining bridge to increase the tension of the bark string. This bow was made of a lenght of Tete reed 5 ft. 2 1/4 inches long and about 1 1/4 ins. diameter, and had an unusual method of straining the single string. There was a small bridge inserted between the reed and the string near the lower end and the resonating gourd was attached by means of a wore which also acted as a moveable tuning device dividing the string into two segements. The top segement was 3 ft. 10 ins. long and emitted a note of 71 vs. (81 vs. when stopped by clasping between the finger and thumb). The lower segment was not used. The interval between the two notes used is 220 cents. Self delectative song with Ugubu, musical bow, stressed and resonated
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Ife totumika (We have been invited)

- Four Tumbuka women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Four Tumbuka women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tumbuka (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba, Mzimba District f-rh
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156243 , vital:39966 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-05
Description: "We have been invited by Chief Mabuli." To have been invited to a party by a chief appears to have been honour enough to warrant a song. Pendeka is a smart hat worn on the side of the head, very chic, and no doubt set the tone of the wedding party. Wedding song.
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Date Issued: 1958

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Ine ndidanduala

- Mami Nakwenda, Belifa Nyabanda, Two Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Mami Nakwenda , Belifa Nyabanda , Two Chewa girls , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186440 , vital:44499 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-04
Description: "My man paid only 10 pence to marry me." Simple pounding ounding song which help to lighten the day's hard work. The mortar was loaded with maize and a little water and as the pounding proceeded the sharp sound of the full grain becomes duller as the corn is broken into small pieces and eventually into meal. Pounding song, with mortar and two pestles
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Date Issued: 1950

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Je-je-je nyoli yangu

- Filimon Phiri, Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Filimon Phiri , Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184902 , vital:44285 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-11
Description: The story is about a violent person who used to go about stealing chickens. He would claim that all the chicken in the village were his. It is not usual for the teller of the story to talk over the singing as is done in this case. Story song
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Date Issued: 1950

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Kaliya-liya, ndinde kaliya

- Hannington Ngoma, Henga boys and girls, Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Hannington Ngoma , Henga boys and girls , Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185813 , vital:44433 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-03
Description: There was once a man who used to work very hard from sunrise till sunset out in his fields. His wife used to cook many different kinds of food and as soon as it was ready she would send her young son to go out to the fields to call his father. This he did by singing him a song each time, when the father would stop working and come home. Story with song
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Kalulu wakawa na nyina wakhe

- Widisoni Mazuku, Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Widisoni Mazuku , Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186273 , vital:44480 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-06
Description: There was once a rabbit who liked dancing but used to come home late at night. His mother taught him a special song to sing so that she would know who it was and let him in. A hyena heard the rabbit singing his song and made a plan to eat up his mother. First he was unsuccessful, but later on he succeeded. The mother opened the door and he ate her up. When the rabbit came home he could hear it was not his mother who replied and he killed the hyena with his axe. Story song
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Date Issued: 1950

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Kamsingi kaya

- Joel Jere, Ngoni men, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Joel Jere , Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Nkata Bay f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185059 , vital:44322 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-02
Description: This game is played with the logs in the same postion but a dancer stands over the centre log and dances, alternate feet banging the centre log down while the others hold it up at either end. This kind of singing game, they say has been done for twenty years or more. Singing game for children, with sticks beaten on the ground
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Kamukando (The small spear)

- 8 Tumbuka boys, Hugh Tracey

Authors: 8 Tumbuka boys , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Henga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza, Mzimba District f-rh
Language: Tumbuka/Henga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156318 , vital:39976 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-13
Description: "The small spear de-de (is broken). The small spear 'Mazira'. Mother is calling de-de, the smal spear Mazira." There would appear to be a double meaning behind the simple songs of which, no doubt, the young singers were innocent. Drinking son with clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Kanamanye

- Tumbuka women and girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Tumbuka women and girls , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
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/10962/185077 , vital:44325 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-04
Description: The initiation dance appears to be the more enjoyable event and not all a solemn occassion. Girls initiation song (uzamba dance) with 2 Mpanje goblet drums and clapping (-12.03-)
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Date Issued: 1950

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Kanthu pa Ingalandi

- Beti Kamanga, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Beti Kamanga , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184588 , vital:44238 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-03
Description: He recalls the 1939-45 war when many thousands of Italian prisoners of war were taken. Topical song with Bangwe raft zither, 7 strings
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Kasise (Hair)

- Grace Musisia and Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Grace Musisia and Chewa girls , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Henga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Mzimba District f-rh
Language: Tumbuka/Henga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156300 , vital:39973 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-11
Description: "Hair, thanks, I will not do it because you do not shave the 'beard' (pubic hair) of your friends' wife." The meaning is obscure. It is a Tumbuka custom to shave the pubic hairs of women. Dance song.
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Date Issued: 1958

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Kawoza ndirinde

- Filimon Phiri, Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Filimon Phiri , Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184911 , vital:44286 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-12
Description: The story is about a chief who died and left a window. People used to come and visit her every evening. She would play them a magical drum both to entertain her visitors and also to remind her of her husband. The drum would play rhythms by itself being touched. Story song
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Date Issued: 1950

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Kayuni ngwata

- Widisoni Mazuku, Tumbuka men and women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Widisoni Mazuku , Tumbuka men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
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/10962/185548 , vital:44398 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-19
Description: This is an exhibition dance done by one or more dancers for the entertainment of the crowd. The drummers are men, friends of the solo dancer and the women of the village sing his dance song for him. His dance consists of a series of rhythmic shakes particularly from his waist down. He wears African made iron bells below the knee and above the ankle. Vimbuza dance song with 2 Goblet Mpanje drums and Mangwanda bells
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Date Issued: 1950

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Koepe kumowa uwepe (Cassava, sweet cassava)

- R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads, Hugh Tracey

Authors: R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tumbuka (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chinteche District f-rh
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156207 , vital:39961 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-01
Description: The song reflects a party of boys who are camping out beside the lake, sleeping out in the open air. They sing about their cassava which they are cooking and the lake fish which they have caught and prepared and handing it around, in fact a typical boy's party. Phuinu-uwepe is cassava which has been soaked in water for a long time. Topical song.
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Date Issued: 1958

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Koko

- Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Chewa women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186398 , vital:44494 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-14
Description: These Mfunde songs with their closely echoed phrases follow a well understood pattern with two women leading and the others singing after them. They are sung for rain when the dry season is nearly over
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Koloni wanguya ku Masoku

- Maluba Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Maluba Mwale , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chiundasi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184848 , vital:44278 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-05
Description: "There were two young men Koloni and Sandifolo who went to look for work." This player uses a short length or silver of bamboo as a bow, which was so efficient that he needed only to wet it with spittle once during the playing. The name Sandifolo would appear to be a local corruption of the English name Stanford or something similar. Beni dance song for men and women with Karigo one stringed bowed lute
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Ku canya kwe manyanda

- Beti Kamanga, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Beti Kamanga , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184606 , vital:44240 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-05
Description: "Typewriters which look like water; Angels wearing different clothes. And all the young men practising magic." Religious song (23.24) with Bangwe Raft Zither, 7 strings
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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Kumaji kumailo-mailo

- Boys at Dedza Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Boys at Dedza Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184875 , vital:44281 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-08
Description: There was a man who had a wife and he killed a certain woman who had a child and so his wife adopted the baby. It was the child who is supposed to be singing this song. The child was trying to remember her mother and was thinking how she could have been brought up by her own mother. The mother was killed because of a dispute over an old cow. She was carelessly looked by her stepmother. Ntano story song
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Kusambare (I have no relatives)

- Zuake Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Zuake Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Bulolo, Chiromo District f-rh
Language: Sena , Nyungwe
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156427 , vital:40000 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-01
Description: He says the instrument he plays belonged to his father who lived South of the Zambezi near Sena, but who migrated about 150 miles north up the Shire river tributary to the Zambezi into Nyasaland. The old man was so pleased with his performance that when we played back his recording he immediately began to play himself in accompaniment. Self delectative song with Mbira.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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