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Chinkanda amayi (The woman's beads)

- Three young Nyanja men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Three young Nyanja men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomole, Ncheu f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155504 , vital:39888 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-05
  • Description: This kind of performance between three friends is the next step from Nthano story telling, towards light opera, but without a solid theme except the all too common subject of borrowed money. "Work Tsotsi, its your habit to work at night and come late for your food, when it is cold. Tsosti boys and girls eat their food cold." "One man had borrowed money from the other. He hedged when asked where it was, saying "It was given to so and so to give back to him." "This woman has a lot of beads. Never mind even if she had beads all the way from her waist to her feet, it would do me no good, because wise men's wives do not have beads around their waists. So better to have my wife without them." Sketch.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Chitako Bitileshi (Beatrice's thighs)

- Joey Ngwira, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Joey Ngwira , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasengu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156876 , vital:40060 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-09
  • Description: The Pango (Bango or Bangwe) is the instrument most commonly found throughout Nyasaland. Here the local dialect changes the more usual Bangwe to Pango and sometimes Pangwe. I was strummed with a swaying of the fingers. "Oh! the thighs of Beatrice. I could not sleep well last night." Self delectative song with board zither (Pango).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Chumba (Barren)

- Denis Yolambo, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Denis Yolambo , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153806 , vital:39524 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-05
  • Description: "You have taken a barren woman and I am very tired of her barren, barren, but today I am tired of her. My friend will have children. Mother, mother, but today mother I want a child but today, I Davis, I am protesting, I came to this land (of his in-laws) with the money of my brother, brother, brother but today! You have just come for trouble, brother, but today I make it clear to you. Topical song with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Cimbwiwe (The Hyena)

- Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

Cinan'gomba (The Eagle)

- Jason Kafunda and Chewa boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Jason Kafunda 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 Mwadzama, Kotakota, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153971 , vital:39549 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-02
  • Description: A child hunting mice dug a hole and found an eagle inside. The bird told him not to tell his mother that he had found him. As the boy was on his way home the bird sang his song. When he met his mother she asked him why the bird was singing. The boy answered "Because I dug it out". The singing chased the bird until it was tired, so she caught it and killed it. S. "Cinang'omba cinang'omba coyaya ine, CH. Siico cinang'omba. S. Mwanawe, usakanene kwa amako kuti yaye Cimbalame ca banga pa msana ye. CH. Siico cinang'omba." "There is the eagle, there is the eagle. You, child, do not tell your mother that you have seen the eagle with spots on his back." Story and song (Nthanu)
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Coka Coka (Go away, go away)

- 9 small girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 9 small girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153491 , vital:39458 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-20
  • Description: The 9 small girls put their 5 mortars in one row and with osne exception two girls pounded in each mortar. "Go away, go away. I don't go! Why shoild I leave this place? An orpahn child is difficult to nurse. Where shall I, an orphan, go? No. no. no, I am sorry for you." The difficulty of bringing up an orphan child is often referred to in African songs. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Coka coka Nate (Go to Nate)

- Four girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Four girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Ncheu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160079 , vital:40381 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-12
  • Description: There was once a certain man who took his wife to his home. Later on he got tired of her and he started to turn her away saying, "Go, go back to your home." "No" she said, "I must have a child before I go home and what is more you have not bought me any clothes to go dancing tsaba-tsaba." Pounding song, pestle and mortar.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Dongo-Dongola (The Clay child)

- Children of Salima Government school, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Children of Salima Government school , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Salima f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160143 , vital:40392 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-19
  • Description: "A woman who had no child went to the 'doctor' who gave her medicine to make a child out of clay. He warned her that the child should never get wet. When it had grown up it was playing outside one day when the rain came. The mother quickly climbed onto an anthill and called the child 'Dongola. Dongola'! (clay). But the child got wet in the rain and when it came to the mother and she tried to pick it up it just melted away." This story which illustrates the intense desire of every African woman to have a child of her own is found in several parts of Africa. I first heard it in Southern Rhodesia among the Karanga of the Bikita district. In other socities the same instinct is frequently sublimated with pets or adoptions. Story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Dzombe Rija (My Grasshopper)

- Muzize Mware, Hugh Tracey

Ede Amalume (Oh, Uncle! Six speeder)

- Small girls under 14 years, Hugh Tracey

Ede! Ede!

- Young Chewa boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Elube (Elube the beautiful girl)

- S. R. Chitalo and De Ndirande Pitch Crooners, Hugh Tracey

Fedina (Name of a man)

- Jason Kafunda and Chewa boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Jason Kafunda 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 Mwadzama, Kotakota, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153990 , vital:39551 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-04
  • Description: "Fedina and John went to Salisbury. On their way John killed Fedina to get hold of his cloth which was better than his own. From Fedina's blood sprang a bird which sang a song telling of Fedina's death. So John was killed because of what he did, and the bird disappeared into the ground as the blood had done." The bird in circumstances such as this is constantly featured as a form of conscience or sense of guilt which brings the malefactor to justice. The blood of his friend brings the murderer to his end. "Fedina. Fedina is dead. He was dead because of a cloth."
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Fisi ndi nkhwazi (The hyena and the fish eagle)

- Mfundo Phiri, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mfundo Phiri , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Namira f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157972 , vital:40135 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-06
  • Description: A hyena and a fish eagle promised to have a competition to race to Salisbury. Nkhwazi said, "I will keep on flying all the way", and Afisi said, "I will keep running along the road". Now the hyena died before he reached Salisbury and the fish eagle said, "There you are! you cannot compete with me now you are dead." So at Shangara where hyena died the fish eagle was clearly the winner. So hyena having died the fish eagle decided to go back home and report to his friends. Shangara is a small border post a few miles north of the Zambezi river on the main road from the valley up into Southern Rhodesia. Nthano story with song and Bangwe board zither.
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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

Gulu wangu (My dog)

- Chikaku and friend, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chikaku and friend , 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, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153942 , vital:39539 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-14
  • Description: There was once a man who went hunting and caught a buck. He gave the liver and innards to his mother-in-law to cook. She not only cooked them but ate them all herself and tried to hide the fact from her son-in-law who sang to his dog. "Galu wanga, galu wanga n'kamanga. Wanimana matumbo apatsa mkomweni wa lero kamangeni galu." "My dog, my dog, I am going to tie my dog to a tree so that he never goes again to hunt in the bush." "They have not given me the innards, they have given the meat to another. Son-in-law " Go and tie your dog to a tree." Story and song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Gulugufe (The butterfly)

- S. R. Chitalo and De Ndirande Pitch Crooners, Hugh Tracey

Gunde (Gunde and the crocodile)

- Kezia Chilumpha and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kezia Chilumpha and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160251 , vital:40426 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-10
  • Description: "Gunde, yes, who is the man brave enough to take the 'wife' of the crocodile. There was once a certain woman who killed her only child and buried her outside the hut. After a while only the skelton remained and the rain fell and washed away the earth, exposing a leg. A crocodile nearby dug up all the bones joined them together and made another child out of them. "Who has done this" the woman cried. Now the child grew up with the crocodile and became a beautiful girl. So the mother sang. "Who is brave enough to take my daughter from the crocodile." No one in the village was brave enough so the crocodile kept his girl from himself. The mother continually came to the lake to sing for her daughter. One day the daughter heard her mother and as the crocodile was away she came out and went with her to the village. But the crocodile came and begged for the girl as he himself had brought her up and given her life. The mother could not refuse him and so the daughter went back to the lake and married the crocodile. Nthano story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Huwa lero (Huwa-today)

- 7 small boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 7 small 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 Kachere, Dedza, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153551 , vital:39477 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-03
  • Description: Herd boys are one of Africa's sources of original songs. The life of thee youngsters is full of the intimate knowledge of creatures and their ways. The discomforts of nature and the constant search for food or sweet things. A herd boy's education is second to none at that tender age and the pleasures are never forgotten. They use a well known proverb concerning their food, referring to their work for other people's cattle. "The one who cooks does not eat the food." "Huwa, somebody's child is your child, so do not be jealous of him." Herd boy song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ine ndaleka sanje (I have left my jealousy)

- Mugizi Mware, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mugizi Mware , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159997 , vital:40365 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-03
  • Description: The first wife of a certain man was jealous of the younger wife. The husband was arguing with her but she replied that she had indeed put jealousy behind her in the hut of her children. Her children were in fact her consolation. "I left my jealousy in the house of my son. Come and kneel, I have left my jealousy. Lament with Karigo one string bowed lute.
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  • Date Issued: 1958
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