A Baiwelu (The story of the foolish young man 'Baiwelu')
- Authors: Four Chewa lads , 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, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153864 , vital:39531 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-09
- Description: There was once a man who wanted to get married and he found two sisters. He asked the elder on to marry him and she agreed. But when he came back the next day the elder sister was not at home and he asked the younger sister to marry him instead. She said, "What about my elder sister, and what would we do with her?" The elder sister heard about the proposal to the younger sister, she cooked food, put poison in it and gave it to the young man so he died. When they were taking his body to the grave they sang this song: "Baiwelu, you were killed by Berita (the name of the elder sister). But when they sang this song the dead Bauwelu heard it and became alive again." Story with song "Ntano" with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Kurarwe (The railway)
- Authors: Stephen Runeso Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154283 , vital:39643 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-04
- Description: The performer calls out to the people who are supposed to be travelling on the various 'specials' either trains or buses announcing the different stations and destinations. Fort Victoria to Salisbury, Fort Victoria to Johannesburg or Bulawayo to Salisbury and so on. Stephen Gumbo himself works on the Southern Rhodesian railways. Humorous song with Kalimba (mbira).
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- Date Issued: 1958
Nasi indoda ingishaya (My husband beats me)
- Authors: Five young women and group of men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153010 , vital:39372 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-09
- Description: The women perform this dance after work or after bringing back the reeds to repair the village palings. These palings are well made with four horizontal strips tied with a woven grass cord (Lutinzi). Ukutsamba, with clapping and ankle rattles.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Tikaone mwana (Let us see the child)
- Authors: Young Chewa 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/10962/160547 , vital:40473 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-02
- Description: This dance is usually accompanied by drums and is done at parties, weddings and other happy occasions. The drums were not available at the time of recording. "Let us go and see a child at Kachere. The child who likes to move about. You young maid, go to sleep nicely, if you don't I will beat you. White people are clever because they have made aeroplanes." Kasodo girls dance, with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958