Mancawa we ndumo
- Authors: Gordoni Mwale and Tumbuka and Ngoni men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160916 , vital:40561 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-18
- Description: A song of rejoicing after killing a lion. Note the way in which the pitch of the song continually rises. The solos in the song are normally accompanied by 'Nkugiya' pas seul, after the Zulu fashion. The words of the song appear to have lost their meaning and the singers could not enlighten us. The melody must be an old and authentic one, brought up with the Jiri people from Zululand in the early 1800's. Hunting song (after the hunt).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Ngonile baba (I am mistaken father)
- Authors: Timeyo Muandila and his wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mbelwa f-mw
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160871 , vital:40556 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-13
- Description: This musical bow was in most respects the same as the local hunting bow, the string being made of hide. The Bride's party sings that she is mistaken in leaving her father for her husband. She apologises for leaving her father thus. Wedding song with Gubu braced musical bow.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Oyo oyo wanize
- Authors: The seven wives of the Chief , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160907 , vital:40560 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-17
- Description: The women, the members of the brides party depart and they wish the bride 'goodbye'. The song long associated with the Zulu wedding custom in Natal but separated by over 100 years and a thousand miles, show how persistent and nostalgic old songs can be in a strange land inhabited by African 'colonials'. Wedding song.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Sinibonani mtimba (Good morning bride)
- Authors: The seven wives of the Chief , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160898 , vital:40559 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-16
- Description: The spokesman of the bridegroom presents his man, and the women sing their acceptance of him, sitting on the ground. The song ends with 'Bayete' (hail). The song long associated with the Zulu wedding custom in Natal but separated by over 100 years and a thousand miles, show how persistent and nostalgic old songs can be in a strange land inhabited by African 'colonials'. Wedding song.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Uya muona Mbelwa (You will see my Chief Mbelwa)
- Authors: Timeyo Muandila , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mbelwa f-mw
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160862 , vital:40555 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-12
- Description: This Gubu bow seems to be related to the Zulu 'Ugubu' in name, but Natal would be called Makweyena. The bow was tuned to two fundamental notes 93 and 74 vs. with a stopped note of 98 vs. It was 5 ft. 7 inches long and the stopped note was produced by pressing the knuckle of the second finger of the right hand onto the string. "You have seen a young man waering feathers." Praise song with Gubu stressed musical bow.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Uyalelano (What are you crying for?)
- Authors: Timeyo Muandila and his wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mbelwa f-mw
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160880 , vital:40557 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-14
- Description: This musical bow was in most respects the same as the local hunting bow, the string being made of hide. The bride cries as she leaves her home to go to her husband. Wedding song with Gubu braced musical bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Yo baba ngonile
- Authors: TXkama, the head wife (Inozikasi) and the seven Ngoni wives of the Chief , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mbelwa f-mw
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160889 , vital:40558 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-15
- Description: An old Ngoni wedding song sung by seven old women with a man giving the 'Ndicindici' (praises). The women start by bending down. One singing the words, the others humming and singing together as they stand in line with typical Zulu type actions of body and hands. Wedding song, together with praises.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Amai anda nena mangwila-ngwila (My mother always told me not to touch anything in the house)
- Authors: Josani Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Dowa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160790 , vital:40544 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-04
- Description: On hearing his song played back to him, Josani Phiri held his head in his hands and shook it unbelievingly during the whole playing. Self delectative song with Bongo board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Atshakongwe wamwe muno kuwala kwawo (The women of this country all wear the same kind of dress)
- Authors: Five Nyasa men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Likoma f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160804 , vital:40547 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-06
- Description: The drum was played with a stick in the left hand tapping on the side of the drum alternately with the head. The right hand kept up the rythm in the usual way. During this lively performnace the bottle player shattered his bottle into fragments, continuing to beat the neck of the beat which remained in his hand until that too disintegrated under the blows of the six inch nail. At the end of the first item the player dashed off to a nearby hut and produced the next best substitute, a new hoe blade. This recording was made by Nyasa workers at a Citrus Estate near Nelspruit, Eastern Transvaal. Party dance with double headed drum, concertina and bottle.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Chigwinini chikuko mana nawo (A man with 2 wives has no wife)
- Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140179 , vital:37844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-02
- Description: If a man has 2 wives they are jealous of each other; when he goes to see the one, she says: "Go away to your other wife, he goes to see the one, she says: " I a, not your wife-go and see the other one." So in the end he has no wife and doesn't know where to go. This composition is not unlike a Russian folk song. Humorous song.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Chikulamayembe Gondwe
- Authors: Alick Mpusi Mutali and Tumbuka/Henga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Livingstone f-za
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140247 , vital:37854 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-09
- Description: Chief Chikulamayembe Gondwe is the Paramount Chief of the Henga people in northern Nyasaland- as a great man by men of his tribe. Praise song.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Kanakazi Kayaya mbebeweta pamulomo (The unfaithful wife talks too much)
- Authors: Smart Chigwamba and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140198 , vital:37847 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-04
- Description: The unfaithful wife deliberately annoys her husband by nagging him, until he leaves her. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mbaya mwana wane bamutya cimbwe (Mbaya, my child, is called a hyena)
- Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140216 , vital:37849 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-06
- Description: A man who was working away from home on the Copper Mines, had a girl sent to him to marry from his own village. But when she arrived she was so ugly he said: "Marry you, never! You look like a hyena!" So the girl went back and told her mother who rushed out of the house shouting to her husband in great hanger: "My child Mbaya has been called a hyena!" From what the Welfare officers say, it appears that this situation is a common experience on the Copperbelt where girls are frequently sent by their parents to get themselves married to their absent young men on the mines, with the same painful rebuff if not acceptable. Humorous song.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Munkwele
- Authors: Group of 7 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140287 , vital:37858 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-12
- Description: The drum was tapped on the side as well as being beaten on either side. Malipenga dance song with Nkohombo singing horns (calabashes), 1 brass drum, double, laced with 2 beaters.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Muzungu wanga ndilipile ndizipita (My master, pay me, I want to go home now)
- Authors: Bigton Gombeza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160772 , vital:40536 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-02
- Description: This was recorded at the Wankie Colliery in Southern Rhodesia where the player had gone to work. Self delectative song with Bango seven string board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mwaba woli bani (The decitiful wife)
- Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140227 , vital:37850 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-07
- Description: The story is about a girl who told her brother-in-law she was going to see her husband on the Copperbelt. But she took a bus in the opposite direction and it was clear that not only had her plans changed, but her affections as well. Humorous song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mwayowoya ciyowoyeyowoye mwayo woya (You don't know what your are talking about)
- Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140171 , vital:37843 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-01
- Description: The song is addressed to a "gate crasher" who is trying to force himself into a drinking party. The others say: "Why should you drink our beer, after all we paid for it." "Go away, you don't know what you are talking about." Ten men had pooled their resources to buy the beer and then they found an eleventh among them who had not paid. Humorous song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndevinepo ndamwana mdiki (Let me dance myself the small child)
- Authors: J. M. Chimpondondo , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and Tumbuka/Henga men
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Karonga f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140272 , vital:37857 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-11
- Description: The drum was tapped on the side as well as being beaten on either side. Wulumba dance with clapping and Urumba bass drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndi shuye ndi kalele mwana
- Authors: Bigton Gombeza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160781 , vital:40537 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-03
- Description: This was recorded at the Wankie Colliery in Southern Rhodesia where the player had gone to work. Self delectative song with Bango seven string board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndiza fera chuma (I never have enough money)
- Authors: Sitero Mbewe and Frank Mukweza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160816 , vital:40548 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-07
- Description: "I left my mother in 1950 and came to work. I had no money for I spent it all on women." This song was performed by Chewa men who had come over from Nyasaland to Rhodesia where they were employed upon the constructio of the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi river. Topical song with two guitars.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957