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.
- Full Text: false
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- 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.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Bayilami selimavukuvuku (I have wrapped you up in my blanket so often that it is now worn out)
- Authors: Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Northern Transvaal f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153241 , vital:39423 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-09
- Description: Party song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Dudu sithando senfabulo (My happy, lovely girl)
- Authors: Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Northern Transvaal f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153232 , vital:39422 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-08
- Description: Party song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Izono em hlabeni (Our sins will be ended when we leave earth)
- Authors: Joke Dlamini and the Homeless 'B' , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock Mine f-sq
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153268 , vital:39426 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-12
- Description: This item was probably copied from an unidentified record. This style of singing has become popular among many groups of men of Nguni origin. It allows them to shoot as loudly as they can and sing second parts mostly in organum. Two topical songs (Mbude style)
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- Date Issued: 1958
Lizwe linomoya thatha ibhatshi lakho (It is windy and the boys and girls must take their coats)
- Authors: Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Northern Transvaal f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153223 , vital:39421 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-07
- Description: Party song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Naba baNgoni bagwaza ngomkhonto (The Ngoni fight with spears)
- Authors: Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160835 , vital:40551 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-09
- Description: This item was recorded in the Eastern Transvaal where the performers had come to work on a citrus estate. In spite of over a century of osolation from the main Ngoni peoples, these Ngoni of Nyasaland still retain in their music, dancing and customs, the traits of their distant relatives in the South. Musically it is interesting to note that many Ngoni seem to be able to sing in either the pentatonic modes of the Zulu groups or adopt the heptatonic modes of their mother's people who have married into the Ngoni clans. Ngoma wedding song with stamping and hand clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Nanga nigiye (If I can dance)
- Authors: Timeyo Muandila and his wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- 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/10962/160853 , vital:40554 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-11
- Description: The Ngoni fighting traditions still linger on in this district although all the organisation has vanished. The Chief is still called 'Inkosi' and they greet hum with 'Bayete'. The Gubu bow in Natal is a large unstressed bow held vertically with the left hand near the lower end and beaten with a light stick. The string is stopped with the backs of the first and second fingers of the left hand. It is still foumd in the Zululand played by elderly people only and undoubtedly came up to Nyasaland with the Ngoni invasion of Jiri and Gomani clans in the early part of the 19th century. The solo dance 'ukugiya' performed by Zulu or Ngoni men in front of the line of dancers, is usually acompanied by the recitation of declamation of the dancers personal praises, on important personal right. Fighting sonf with Gubu musical bow.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Wezulu walila (The Zulu are crying)
- Authors: Gordon Mwale , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- 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/10962/160844 , vital:40552 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-10
- Description: A dance often the traditional Ngoni style which is clearly related to similar tunes still performed by the Nguni (Zulu) people of Natal. Ngoma dance song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Wonke umhlaba nyazmmazama (The whole world is moving)
- Authors: Joke Dlamini and the Homeless 'B' , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock Mine f-sq
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153277 , vital:39427 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-13
- Description: This item was probably copied from an unidentified record. The name of this choir was 'the homeless'. But as there was an original team this one decided to call themselves 'B' to distinguish their group from the Homeless 'A'. Topical song (Mbude style)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958