Kayuni ngwata
- 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
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Daula mabanja nangu Mpezeni
- Authors: Blaisoni Jere , 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/10962/185507 , vital:44392 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-14
- Description: Mpezeni was a famous chief of the Ngoni in the Fort Jameson district of Northern Rhodesia about 200 miles south of this village. He was defeated by the British. "The conqueror of all the chiefs is Mpezeni. My child Dangala, let us go." The tuning:- 280, 260, 232, 176, 156, 140 vs. The tuning of this Bango is of doubtful accuracy. Self delecatative song with Bango board zither, (7 notes)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Namfikilankhu
- Authors: Taines Chirwa , Nancy Luhana , Tumbuka girls , 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/10962/185186 , vital:44337 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-16
- Description: "When I get there who will look after me, as they do not know me there." The girls were clearly out of breath with the effort of both pounding and singing. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Eneku awato
- Authors: Alfred Nyirenda , Tonga young boys , 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/10962/184893 , vital:44283 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-10
- Description: "You, the owner of the canoe, do not be mean with the fish you bring home. Share them with everyone of the crew." Although this work song may be genuinely used by fishermen on the lake, this rendering of it is clearly far from being associated with the actual paddling. Paddling canoe song with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Paja mundikonda mundilembele kalata
- Authors: Ganizani Nyirenda , 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/10962/186594 , vital:44515 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-17
- Description: This song has heavy mirliton buzzing, but the fourth is clearer as he tightened up the membrane of the mirliton to make it less pronounced. Self delectative song with 10 note Kalimba (Mbira)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950