Ametela metela
- Authors: Kaphatikila Kanyingi , 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 Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186630 , vital:44519 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-19
- Description: The one stringed lute has a wooden bowl for a resonator with a sound hole on its side. The string is strained with a peg but final tuning is achieved by means of a straining string. It is bowed by a reed or bamboo bow with spittle and the fingering is achieved by gripping the string with the inside of the second segment of the second and fouth fingers. Self delecatative song with Karigo one stringed bowed Lute
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Lembani kalata kwa Masula (Write to Masula)
- Authors: Three young girls of Masula , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158517 , vital:40201 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-06
- Description: A song sung as if far away from home. It was first sung at Citukula's district, about 3 miles away they say."Write a letter to Masula saying it is very far. No, I do not want to put money in the bus (pay for the bus fare)." Evening song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Najele (The beads around your neck, Najele)
- Authors: Ezra Chimpanda and 2 Chewa men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza, Kota Kota District, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153569 , vital:39480 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-05
- Description: "The beads around your neck, Najele, I am tired." Najele was the name of his wife. Drinking song/
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958