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Maiyo Ngondo

- Joviani Nkhoma, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Joviani Nkhoma , 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/10962/184862 , vital:44280 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-07
  • Description: His Bango is unusual in that it has two tin resonators, one at each end. He played the strings with his left hand and beat a simple pulse on one of the resonators with his right hand and miming the action at the word "Ndito", 'truly'. For the second song he turned his Bango round and held it at right angels pointing away from him touching the strings with his left hand and striking them with his right. This is the normal way of holding the instrument. The performer looked like a little old elf. Lament with Bango zither with 7 metal strings
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mailole

- Young Chewa women, Tracey, Hugh

Mai fulendi kemu

- 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/10962/184570 , vital:44236 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-01
  • Description: This singer is blind and is well known for his songs all over the district. In spite of his blindness he makes his own Bangwe zither himself. He was born in 1902 and after the age of 5 was blind. He is now 48 years old (1950). The words and the title of this song are intended to be in English but are hardly recognisable as such. His zither was made of 8 papyrus stalks firmly tied together in a raft, with a gourd resonator into which the far end of the zither is placed. Topical song with Bangwe raft zither, 7 strings
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Leka nzunule

- Andurosi Banda, Tumbuka boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Andurosi Banda , Tumbuka boys 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/10962/185086 , vital:44326 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-05
  • Description: A new young people's dance. The boys dance in a group and the girls in another within the circle, the two drummers standing on one side. It consists of a number of simple rhythmic steps. The sound of the drums and whistle overshadows the voices in the recording, which in fact is the impression gained by spectators outside the circle of dancers. Saca dance song for boys and girls with two Maanje goblet drums, clapping (-12.03-) and whistles (-11.515-)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kwimba Kalimba (To play the Kalimba)

- E. A. Nkuzana, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: E. A. Nkuzana , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tumbuka (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Mzimba District f-rh
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156273 , vital:39970 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-08
  • Description: "To play the 'Kalimba' is to be happy. I remember long ago when I was a small child when I thought a breast was made of bone. But my mother told me that the breast was not bone, but flesh only. I was fooled long ago, I thought the breast was bone but it is flesh only. Listen my friends, the breast is flesh only." It seems that the obvious meaning of the words is intended to serve a secondary one. Perhaps the revelation of the begining of his natural sex life. Self delectative song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kwenda munthowa nkluweme

- Patiriki Mphaka, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Patiriki Mphaka , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185249 , vital:44357 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-03
  • Description: This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. "It is good to walk along the path because then it is I meet my love." This simple song is typical of those of the older generation of musicians. The tuning of the Bango was:- 256, 236, 216, 198, 178, 156, 140 vs. Self delectative song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kusambare (I have no relatives)

- Zuake Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

Kumaji kumailo-mailo

- Boys at Dedza Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Ku canya kwe manyanda

- Beti Kamanga, Hugh Tracey

Koloni wanguya ku Masoku

- Maluba Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Koko

- Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Koepe kumowa uwepe (Cassava, sweet cassava)

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

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

Kawoza ndirinde

- Filimon Phiri, Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

Kasise (Hair)

- Grace Musisia and Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

Kanthu pa Ingalandi

- Beti Kamanga, Hugh Tracey

Kanamanye

- Tumbuka women and girls, Hugh Tracey

Kamukando (The small spear)

- 8 Tumbuka boys, Hugh Tracey

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
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  • Date Issued: 1950

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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