Anyilongo (A mere quarrel)
- Authors: Chewa girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Vidzumo, Kasungu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153419 , vital:39449 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-12
- Description: "That is a mere quarrel. Let us die now. Those are the troubles of Nyilongo. A Nyilongo, you are angry. What have you to be angry about? I had saved some money. It is in the grain bin." Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Apa mkuti
- Authors: Chewa girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Vidzumo, Kasungu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153428 , vital:39450 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-13
- Description: "When you say it is a dog, it is a dog, Mama. My childis a dog, Mama. Bugs! Bugs! Yaya-hole! They bite my child in the hut, Mama. Dori I am tired." Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ari Nkumbula na Katilungu balishamyondo (Nkumbula and Katilungu sound the calling drum)
- Authors: Group of 11 Aushi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Lake Bangwelu f-za
- Language: Aushi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140141 , vital:37839 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-11
- Description: This song contains an account of the troubles between the Trades Union and the Mine Company. Nkumbula is the leader of the African National Congress, and Katilungu is the leader of the African Trades Union. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Arikorotho (Morning star)
- Authors: Sitori Malindi and Dailimi Likluva , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Lomwe (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mkanda f-mw
- Language: Lomwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160683 , vital:40498 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-14
- Description: "Morning star over there. Twinkle, twinkle." Party song with Thangara bowed lute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Aroyiwa mwana
- Authors: Saini Madera and group , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Songs, Sena , Sena (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Sena , Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195234 , vital:45543 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR212-02
- Description: Songs for "mhondoro" spirits.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
Asazi kambe (We don't know what will happen)
- Authors: Men of Tuku's of Tuku Location , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Xhosa , Circumcision , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135835 , vital:37302 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR026-09
- Description: Circumcision song for boys with stamping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Asimati kotokoto
- Authors: Chewa women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159556 , vital:40311 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-01
- Description: "A Simati stole the money of A Kesi, he stole the money." 'A Kesi' - 'A' is the honorofic prefix, equivalent to the use of 'Mr' in English, when placed before a proper name. This theft occured just one month previously in April 1958 when A Simati is said to have stolen six pounds sent by post from the Mkoma mission to A Kesi, a woman of this village. The case was tried and A Simati was convicted. The woman at once lampooned him in this song for all to hear. Swift community retribution for his crime. Chintali dance with bass drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Asiyoyetha, lengoma yeye Badala (This song is not ours, it is Badala's)
- Authors: Young girls and boys of Durban location , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149208 , vital:38815 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR059-07
- Description: Circumcision song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ata pikure katenge (You will turn the mortar)
- Authors: Chimwala Ganiziechi and Mwamadi Lokote , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people)--Music , Ngonde (African people)--Music , Africa Zimbabwe Kariba f-rh
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151920 , vital:39187 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR066-12
- Description: "I am working here now. When I go home rich, some wizard may envy me (turn the mortar over), for my money." It is said that turning a mortar upside down, is one of the practices which are used in casting a spell. Topical song with Bangwe board zither, with resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Atate wuchona kwa Rhodesia
- Authors: Joviani Nkhoma , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184857 , vital:44279 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-06
- Description: His Bango is unusual in that it has two tin resonators, one at each end. He played the strings with his left hand and beat a simple pulse on one of the resonators with his right hand and miming the action at the word "Ndito", 'truly'. For the second song he turned his Bango round and held it at right angels pointing away from him touching the strings with his left hand and striking them with his right. This is the normal way of holding the instrument. The performer looked like a little old elf. Lament with Bango zither with 7 metal strings
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Atu
- Authors: Andre Boniface Wahamba and group of Chokwe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chokwe , Chokwe (African people) , Luvale (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Angola Villa Luzu f-ao
- Language: Chokwe , Luvale
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183301 , vital:43953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR180-01
- Description: "So many people have been born, so many people have died. Now all my folk are finished. So who will keep me company when I die?" This song with its antiphonal call and answer is typical of the style of the majority of folk songs of the Chokwe heard on the mines. This kind of performance is most difficult to record effectively for several reasons. Chianda dance song woth Sangu rattles, leg rattles held in the hand and gourds on sticks
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Atufundi uyanganje (Go straight off and keep together - do not linger
- Authors: Large group of Lunda women and Kalemba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kasai f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139436 , vital:37738 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR048-05
- Description: This is sung by people who suffer from eye diseases, when they consult a diviner or herbalist. Diviner's song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Atuwendi kumanzi ntwende kumulonga tukateke menda (Go to the river, go to draw water.Let us get water)
- Authors: Timoti Sadimbi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138117 , vital:37595 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-16
- Description: Timoti wet the flute with water first before playing. These flutes, they say, are played in January and February, and finished in March, during the time when they start to eat the new season's summer crop of mealies. They are played in the field. The flute is played with the fingers of the right hand palm turned inwards and is held in thus hand only. Flute tune for harvest with Mutetule usibgwa transverse reed flute x 3, open at far end.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Awe Filipi malala mwana angu
- Authors: Mafolda Chipeca , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193160 , vital:45304 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-02
- Description: "You Filipe do not say anything. I, your mother, will tell you what to do." Songs such as this are ccomposed and sung exclusively by the women of the village. Drinking song with hand clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Awe simene
- Authors: Robert Golozera and 3 elderly women with the chief , Tracey, Hugh
- 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/10962/154838 , vital:39784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-04
- Description: Sung in the old Ngoni style. The Chief calls one out towards the end of the song that his people are the ones who came from the Swati, down South (with the Gomani section of the Ngoni). This section migrated from Natal either just before or during the Shaka wars. "Some had brought fighting men to terrify me, but could do nothing. But here we still live and you could do nothing to us." Two fighting songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Awe wedikoyoyo (No meaning)
- Authors: Pearson Kapeni , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153788 , vital:39522 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-03
- Description: "The women of Dowa desire very much to drink beer. Their work indeed is to drink beer. The women of Dowa, their work is to sell flour and flat cakes. And when they get home their marriage is broken. The women of Msoci, their work is to love the market place. And they was on Saturday only." I, Pearson Kapeni have troubles in the country of Dowa. This country hates me, why does it hate me? The reference to washing on Saturday is appreciated when one remembers that Saturday is market day in Dowa when the women put on their best clothes. The song struck home as it was true. Topical song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Awe, iee, sankha wekha (Choose, yourself)
- Authors: Petros Samalaboma , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mzuzu, Northern Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154009 , vital:39553 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-06
- Description: The meaning of the song is not clear. The Kubu bow is a simple tall bow (56 inches) held vertically and strained near the lower end, the main segment of the string being 40 inches long. It has a gourd resonator. The player struck the long segment only, stopping it with the point of his first finger and with his thumb. Self delectative song with musical bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Awelemuwo ee dandaula (Awelemuwo worries to much)
- Authors: Young Chewa boys (Under 20 years) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156914 , vital:40066 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-12
- Description: The Ilala dance started, they say in 1957 in the Fort Johnstone district. It is performed by youth standing in rows or circles and shaking their shoulders forwards and backwards and thrusting out their chins in time with syncopation of the Mudewa drums. This action requires great suppleness of the neck and upper spine to perform effectively. The movement is distinctive to Ilala and is neither like the rippling of the Xhosa or the shaking of the Chopi dancers. Ilala dance with two drums (Mudewa and Kachisi).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Awoli a legimenti
- Authors: Tumbuka women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185141 , vital:44332 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-11
- Description: "Soilders wives, take care of your clothes, you may have to dispose of some of them to buy yourselves food." A poignant little song which reflects the experience of war wives (1939-45). It has an attractive melody in the chorus. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Awu ngali wanchumo
- Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano, Gomez , Gomez, F , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132105 , vital:36800 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR004-02 , Field card no. H1P-6
- Description: "I am getting old and the young girls are no longer interested in me. I now compete with the older men and my old friends like me best. My wife gets no child, why? Cant the doctor help you get a child? My second wife has a child, so why not you, my first wife?" Lament with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955