Amalume kuwayawa
- Authors: Group of Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184418 , vital:44220 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-03
- Description: "Boys marry young girls, who is Lami going to marry? You will never have any food. You are going to eat your mother. My uncle is not settled, for he thinks I am his wife." One woman claps gently in the background
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Nimwe kuya kusilya mukaniuzile amboni
- Authors: Group of Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184399 , vital:44218 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-01
- Description: The singers sang with a completely composed and sedate manner, and listened to the playback without a smile, but applauded themselves enthusiastically at the end as did the crowd who shouted "Very good." "You people of the watch tower, when you go across the river (Zambesi) go and ask them where my brother sleeps. The people of Satani have lied that people who died go to heaven (and do not stay here in the country of Petauke)." The idea that the souls of the dead leave the familiar earth and go to a far place 'heaven' is repugnant to some African people even though they may be Christian in name. They prefer the more homely resting place of the home country and its well known features. Lament
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Chawayawaya chipuwa
- Authors: Group of Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184409 , vital:44219 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-02
- Description: "I have married an old man who yawns when he wakes up in the morning. I will die here and die again at home, on account of the magic. Only a fool has no blanket." Topical song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mbiya ambwiya wo tiende (Grandmother, let us go)
- Authors: Jesi Tembo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179081 , vital:39872 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-14
- Description: A hyena's grandmother died and so he went off to suckle from a woman in order to show people that he was in reality the son of the woman. The meaning of this story is not clear, though it is among the many African stories in which people turn themselves or are turned into animals to stress a moral point. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Nensonde nyama nyawonga
- Authors: Jespar Lungu and is wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184446 , vital:44223 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-06
- Description: The man is singing, partly in Falsetto, a duet with his wife. Self delectative song with Kalimba, eleven notes, fan and external resonator
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Chipungu
- Authors: Jespar Lungu and is wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184437 , vital:44222 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-05
- Description: The man is singing, partly in Falsetto, a duet with his wife. "Chipungu, Chipungu, show me where the meat is." The Chipungu is the Bateleur eagle which features in many songs in this part of Africa. It is sometimes said to be a sign of good luck, and, sometimes, if flies across your path at the beginning of a journey that you should turn back and start again tomorrow. Self delectative song with Kalimba, eleven notes, fan and external resonator
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Chiterere chanakazi
- Authors: Jespar Lungu and is wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184427 , vital:44221 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-04
- Description: The man is singing, partly in Falsetto, a duet with his wife. Self delectative song with Kalimba, eleven notes, fan and external resonator
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kakili kanowana
- Authors: Jimu Zulu , Ledsoni Mwali , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184455 , vital:44224 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-07
- Description: It was explained that this song is sung "When we go out hunting for five days." In Northern Rhodesia especially, axe blades are often used as an accompaniment to song. This single blade is not however a good example. Men will knock the triangular blades out of their handles and tap them rhythmically. This particularly effective when a number of blades are used each producing its distinctive oitch of note which serves to accentuate the pattern of the crossed rhythm which are tapped out. The choice of harmonic intervals in this song is interesting. Hunting song, with two pieces of metal (1 axe blade)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Uyezwa ngendumo macaba ngendumo
- Authors: Joel M , Ngoni men , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184482 , vital:44227 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-10
- Description: This somg is taken from an old Ngoni regimental song which would, in the old days, have been used only as a song after hunting. This style of singing is indigenous to Zululand rather than Nyasaland and was brought up north in the early nineteenth century migration of the two distinct groups, the Jiri and the Gomani. The Jiri came up through the highlands of what is now Southern Rhodesia and sacked the settlement at Zimbabwe on their way. In one or two words the change over from the Zulu "L" to the Nyasa "R" can be discerned. After hunting and killing a lion the party will dance the Mgubo before the chief and earn an ox in reward. Mgubo dance song, after hunting leopard or lion
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Silandele Unjenje oyana
- Authors: Joel M , Ngoni men , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:44228 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-11
- Description: Unjenje was the head of another band of the Ngoni over in Northern Rhodesia near Fort Jameson. Mgubo dance song, after hunting leopard or lion
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Zamapembe sesiyandinda
- Authors: Kiti Shunga , Ngoni men and women , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184522 , vital:44231 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-14
- Description: "We have brought your wife. You must love her and treat her well." It is clear to Zulu speaking people from the pronunciation that these songs are sung by people of mixed origin. The wedding songs of the Nguni appear to have been influenced by their mothers 'side of the family-the Tumbuka and Chewa speaking tribes. Wedding song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Iyelele
- Authors: Kiti Shunga , Ngoni men and women , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184508 , vital:44230 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-13
- Description: Sung when the bride's party arrive at the husband's village. Wedding song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Anthu acilendo
- Authors: Lucy Nyamangwe , Tonga girls , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184540 , vital:44233 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-16
- Description: "Men who travel away from home make their women think about them with longing as they sleep in their 'pyjamas' alone." The word 'pyjama' has been adopted locally as 'Majamara'. In point of fact the women do not sleep in pyjamas at all they say, and it is used as a figure of speech. Chioda dance song for young women with drum rhythm beaten on a box
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ici ncumba
- Authors: Lucy Nyamangwe , Tonga girls , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184531 , vital:44232 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-15
- Description: "Maria gave birth to her child on the lake steamer. Her midwives were sailors." This incident seems to have given rise to local hilarity. Chioda dance song for young women with drum rhythm beaten on a box
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ada a Banda
- Authors: Lucy Nyamangwe , Tonga girls , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184549 , vital:44234 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-17
- Description: "My father, Banda, has gone off to work in the towns, for a long long time, to buy himself clothes." How true a reflection this is upon thousands of Tonga men in this district who go off to mines and towns for their own reasons leaving the women and children to fend for themselves at home. Many send back money, but as many others find local foreign girls and forget their home and children. Chioda dance song for young women with drum rhythm beaten on a box
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Njenjenje
- Authors: Madzimbone and younf Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179199 , vital:39870 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-12
- Description: The leader was an old woman and the chorus a number of young married women. Party song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Waramba ukuma (He refused the relationship)
- Authors: Murira, Madzikuminga, Muzengedza and Madera , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179072 , vital:39867 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-09
- Description: "You refused friendship, Machinda. You refused friendship, it is worn out." Machinda was the title given to the sons of the Monomotapa and may well have come down from those days in the sixteenth century when the Monomotapa held sway over this part of what is now Southern Rhodesia. Party song with three Matebe dza Mondoro (Mbira and Murumbi drum).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Kari muchipfuwa kanaziwa ne mwene wako (What is in your heart only yourself can tell)
- Authors: Murira, Madzikuminga, Muzengedza and Madera , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179105 , vital:39866 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-08
- Description: The great volume of sound mabe by the Matebe inside their resonators of large gourds gives a grand impression of what it is like to play in a band of this nature. Party song with three Matebe dza Mondoro (Mbira and Murumbi drum).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Musengu
- Authors: Murira, Madzikununga, Muzengedza and Madero , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155127 , vital:39857 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-01
- Description: The leader starts the tune the second part coming in at 15 seconds, and the third at 27 seconds. Yodelling of this nature is typical of many South Rhodesian folk tunes. The drum comes in at 1m. 27s. and the drummer hits the body of the drum as well as the membrane. Mondoro song for ancestral rites with 3 Matebe dza Mondoro (Mbira) and a drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Nyamulosa chimbo cha Gotosa (The song Gotosa, the Mondoro)
- Authors: Murira, Madzikununga, Muzengedza and Madero , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155136 , vital:39858 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-02
- Description: Gotosa is said to be the Mondoro spirit of Mkota. Watengera Shawa of Chief Mtize's village is the maker of the instruments. Mondoro song for ancestral rites with 3 Matebe dza Mondoro (Mbira) and a drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958