Kalulu drum rhythms
- Authors: 3 Nyakyusa drummers with Nyakyusa women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Arts, Malawi , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Ngonde (African people)--music , Drum--Performance , Africa Malawi Tukuyu f-mw
- Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151828 , vital:39177 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-02
- Description: The women's dance was slow and graceful, and consisted of advancing and retiring in pairs, raising and lowering their large horse-tail fly-whisks. "Kabulu" in Nyakyusa is derived, they say, from the word meaning to "ululate". During the dance they call out "we are proud of Tukuyu, we are proud we have come." All the drums were locally made on the mine, from oil drums. They were double-headed and laced. Mampenenga and Kalulu dance with 1 conical drum, laced, 2 cylindrical laced drums with wooden beaters.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Kalolo (Kalolo's hunger)
- Authors: Young girls and 5 drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Fort Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155865 , vital:39925 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-07
- Description: It appears that Kalolo had no food in his house and went hungry. The 1st drummer plays No's. 1 and 2. The 2nd drummer, the Chief drummer plays No's. 2 to 6. The 3rd drummer plays No. 6 and 7. The 4th drummer plays No. 8. The 5th drummer plays No. 9. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Kalilole
- Authors: Linilesi Sadiki with Yao girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Blantyre Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154793 , vital:39776 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-14
- Description: One day little boys went into the forest to play. There they found a big bird which asked them to sing a song the bird wanted to hear, so they went back to the village and consulted their parents about this. After hearing the song from the parents the little boys went back to the forest and sang the song which satisfied the big bird Kalilole. Story song.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kaisara (Kaisara)
- Authors: Nyanja Policemen , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178942 , vital:39885 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-02
- Description: "Kaisare, the King of the Jews, he crucified Jesus, he was not afraid of death, he was only afraid of getting old." The men grunt as in Arab songs and this feature may well be residuum from Arab days when they occupied the country around lake Nyasa and traded in slaves. Who Kaisare may be is not clear. Caiphas the high priest perhaps or 'Kaiser' the King. The singers could not elucidate the point. Wedding song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Ife totumika (We have been invited)
- Authors: Four Tumbuka women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tumbuka (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba, Mzimba District f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156243 , vital:39966 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-05
- Description: "We have been invited by Chief Mabuli." To have been invited to a party by a chief appears to have been honour enough to warrant a song. Pendeka is a smart hat worn on the side of the head, very chic, and no doubt set the tone of the wedding party. Wedding song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Gulugufe (The butterfly)
- Authors: S. R. Chitalo and De Ndirande Pitch Crooners , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Blantyre f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155544 , vital:39892 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-08
- Description: Taken from a well known Kreisler melody."When he dies you should not cry, but just let the tears fall from your eyes." The melody is believed have been copied from Johannesburg recordings. Topical song with guitar.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Gebede-gebede ulendo wasabwera (Pack-pack, to go and not return)
- Authors: Eight elderly women and two drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155784 , vital:39916 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-13
- Description: Gebede, gebede is the sound of putting ones things together and the banging together of boxes preparing for a journey. This said to be the most typical of all the Mang'anja dances. "Pack, pack, to go and not come back is like the journey when you do not say goodbye." Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles, drums and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Famba mpore usadngana mumbuyo (Go over carefully, do not look behind you)
- Authors: Zuake Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Bulolo, Chiromo District f-rh
- Language: Sena , Nyungwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156436 , vital:40001 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-02
- Description: He says the instrument he plays belonged to his father who lived South of the Zambezi near Sena, but who migrated about 150 miles north up the Shire river tributary to the Zambezi into Nyasaland. The old man was so pleased with his performance that when we played back his recording he immediately began to play himself in accompaniment. Self delectative song with Mbira.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Elube (Elube the beautiful girl)
- Authors: S. R. Chitalo and De Ndirande Pitch Crooners , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Blantyre f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155535 , vital:39891 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-07
- Description: "She has beautiful curved legs, she has eyes white as rice, A face shinning like the moon." The melody is believed have been copied from Johannesburg recordings. Topical song with guitar.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Edele Nkosi
- Authors: Robert Golozera and 3 elderly women with the chief , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomoe, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154843 , vital:39785 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-05
- Description: The chief had already overrun so many smaller clans that there were few fields to conquer. "The chief looks for land. The chieftainships are finishing. Look up and down you men so that people will know that you are a man from the village of a famous chief." Two fighting songs.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Ede Amalume (Oh, Uncle! Six speeder)
- Authors: Small girls under 14 years , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156081 , vital:39949 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-09
- Description: "Oh uncle, oh uncle! Six speeds without changing a gear. Oh, uncle. The mechanical marvels revealed by the modern bicycle as seen by the young. Six speeds! What a bike!. Kwana dance.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Doka, wandimara chiperi (They have refused me the beans)
- Authors: Nyungwe men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Tete f-mz
- Language: Sena , Nyungwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156490 , vital:40009 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-08
- Description: The drums were brought in order. The small time keeper first. All were played with sticks except Tewe, the largest. Dai dance with 5 drums.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Chinkanda amayi (The woman's beads)
- Authors: Three young Nyanja men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomole, Ncheu f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155504 , vital:39888 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-05
- Description: This kind of performance between three friends is the next step from Nthano story telling, towards light opera, but without a solid theme except the all too common subject of borrowed money. "Work Tsotsi, its your habit to work at night and come late for your food, when it is cold. Tsosti boys and girls eat their food cold." "One man had borrowed money from the other. He hedged when asked where it was, saying "It was given to so and so to give back to him." "This woman has a lot of beads. Never mind even if she had beads all the way from her waist to her feet, it would do me no good, because wise men's wives do not have beads around their waists. So better to have my wife without them." Sketch.
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- Date Issued: 1958
China mureya
- Authors: Zemaria Leon Marunga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Tumbuka (African people) , Sena (African people) , Nyungwe (African people) , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Pondola, Furancengo f-mz
- Language: Sena , Nyungwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156445 , vital:40002 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-03
- Description: The tune is said to be connected with a song about a person who did not like giving food away to anyone else. Self delectative song with Mbira.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Chilungulungu madje (The water snake)
- Authors: Chintuta Banda and group of Ngoni men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Zambia Bancroft Mine, Norther Rhodesia f-za
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154900 , vital:39791 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-11
- Description: Drinking song with clapping
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- Date Issued: 1959
Chikangaide (The bird)
- Authors: Young police , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Poilce Headquaters, Zomba, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154956 , vital:39797 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-17
- Description: Once there were some children who took their mother's clothes and gave them to a bird, and the bird started singing and said, "The children were playing and took their mother's clothes and gave them to me knowing nothing because I am only a bird from the bush." The father came and waited for the bird to kill it, but hearing the bird singing so prettily he forgot his anger and in fact went anf gave the bird still more clothes. This is a variation of the old theme of the enchantment of music. It perhaps does not indicate an aeshetic pleasure in the natural song of the blind but rather in the words of the song which it is supposed to have sung. Nthano story song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Chigona mbara (The drunkard)
- Authors: Simenti Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Malindi, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155906 , vital:39930 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-11
- Description: As he sang the audience were all making the sound of drinking. The tune, he says, was taken from a certain entertainer in Salisbury who called himself Chigona Mbara. The 'Drunkard'. Self delectative song with board zither.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Che Mwangulube (Mwangulube stole some meat)
- Authors: Simakwenda , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Arts, Malawi , Field recordings , Nyakyusa (African people)--Music , Safwa (African people)--Music , Africa Malawi Mbeya f-mw
- Language: Nyakyusa-Ngonde , Safwa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151839 , vital:39178 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-03
- Description: The singer's upper front teeth were filed. Towards the end of the first item, one string went out of tune, as the small wooden bridge, with which each string is tuned separately, slipped inwards. The Safwa tribe live immediately to the north of the Nyakyusa (Nkonde) near Mbeya. The player took his instrument away before it could be measured. Self-delectative song with Pango board zither.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Chawaiye-chawaiye (Married-married)
- Authors: Three elderly women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomole, Ncheu f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155584 , vital:39896 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-10
- Description: A man sings happily that the libolo of cattle is now in his hands, the bride price paid over to him for his daughter Lili by his new son-in-law. "My cattle, I am now lucky, I have now got the cattle with their heads facing towards my place. Oyayo !" Wedding song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Buyani Sangweni (Come to the gate)
- Authors: Elderly men of Chief Njolomole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza and Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154865 , vital:39787 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-07
- Description: The old Nguni fighting song calls out the men of the village to come and fight, having had the good wishes and blessing of the Isangoma, the woman diviner, assuring them of victory like the prophets of Baal in the Bible story "Go up and prosper." "Ayaye Eye! Come to the gate. There goes the diviner. Yes we hear! What kind of a thing is this and how have you heard it from the wife of a man. It is right, it is right, we agree. Regimental song.
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- Date Issued: 1959