Mtempile
- 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/10962/179114 , vital:39884 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-01
- Description: "The Nyanja, Ngoni, Lomwe, Chewa came and built a temple." It would appear that the singers belong to one of the many separatist African churches. "Mtempile Anyanja, Angoni, Alomwe, Acawa ndza namanga." The four tribes mentioned are all to be found in Nyasaland. African christians are fond of using the word 'temple' in various pronunciations. Wedding song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Mukadzi wanga (My wife)
- Authors: Young girls and 4 drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chipwembwe, Fort Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155820 , vital:39920 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-02
- Description: The drums are carved out of Mutondo wood (one of Sokosa wood) cut locally on the plain. The maker Bauleni made No. 5 as long ago as 1930. The others are more recent. The membranes are of ox hide. The dance is well performed by the young girls who stand in a row or semicircle near the drums and each comes out in turn to do a solo dance, a clever rhythmic routine ending with a sharp pelvic jerk. As one girl finishes another immediately takes her place. The drums are all played with curved wooden beaters except the 2 bass drums numbers 8 and 9 which are played with hands. Some of the girls held clappers and one a tin rattle. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Mulandeza mulanganga (A bag my brother)
- Authors: Six elderly women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155748 , vital:39912 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-09
- Description: This is an old dance, now only performed by the old people. Two of the performers grasped the long gourd rattles with alternate hands while others beat it with the palm of one hand. The gourds have maize seeds inside as the rattling medium. As they wear away they are replaced with new dry seeds. Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Mulongo wangaya (The brother of mine)
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza and several women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Port Herald f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158150 , vital:40155 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-12
- Description: "That brother of mine. I was with him yesterday. Now he has been taken (died). Do not be afraid of the darkness. I have no one to talk to. I am tired and hold my leg." The Chitsukuhumwe rattles are the long gourds with maize seeds inside. Song at feast after burial. With rattles and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Munaona (You will see)
- Authors: Agnes Maknwalo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Malindi, Fort Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155856 , vital:39924 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-06
- Description: Likhuba dance song for young women with 2 tin rattles and clappers.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Mungabvale
- 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/10962/159610 , vital:40317 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-07
- Description: "Even though you put on long trousers, small at the ankles and white, I still would not like you. I prefer a man who wears shorts." Chewa women it seems have a definite taste in the clothes their men would wear. Chintali dance for women with brass drum.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Munthu anamanga nyumba yaikuru (A man built a large house)
- Authors: Flori Kalindang'oma and 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 Kalindang'oma, Dowa, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154075 , vital:39560 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-13
- Description: A man built a big house, cut the necessary grass and poles and left them in the bush. A bird came and sang a song to make the grass grow again anf the trees sprout again. This happened twice. But the third time the man hid nearby, discovered the bird, killed it, took it home and cooked it. The off and when it was cut up in pieces to be eaten. 1. "Who cut the grass here? In rows, in rows. Grow, grass grow! Sprout trees, sprout!" 2. Pluck me carefully" sings the bird. "Lilili, myself the bird. Cut me up carefully" sings the bird. "Lilili, myself the bird." Story song (Nthanu)
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- Date Issued: 1958
Munthu ukakala wekha (If you are alone)
- Authors: Lusiya Nabanda and Chewa women with girls , 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/10962/159619 , vital:40318 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-08
- Description: "When you are alone do not quarrel with anyone. Because these very friends of yours may have something good about them." "They may go and catch a fowl and give it to you." Verse with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
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.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Mwana anzanga (Friends! Have you seen?)
- Authors: Johani Kamzimbi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Pemba f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158963 , vital:40245 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-15
- Description: 'Friends have you seen Bwana. A Ciwere with a fez on, together with messengers?" Self delectative song with board zither.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Mwana wa Namwali (Child of Namwali)
- Authors: Young Men and women , 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/10962/156054 , vital:39946 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-06
- Description: "The child of Namwali will not sleep today. The child of an older woman, will not sleep today. Will not sleep today. I will 'wage war' at the end of the year." The words 'wage war' are a euphemism for the marriage bed. The song is a warning to a girl to 'go straight' and not to cheapen herself with men. The word 'Namwali' usually refers to a virgin. Chiponda dance with clapping and 3 drums.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Mwana wanga (My child)
- Authors: Edess Nyalongwe , 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/10962/159681 , vital:40326 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-14
- Description: There is a Chewa custom that when a girl is old enough she is taught how to become a good wife and mother by a groub of the elder women. Now there was a girl who married but did not have herself properly towards her husband. So he complained to the group of women who took her and taught her again. That was always our custom. This story is in fact, a kind of simple morality story told with the object of impressing upon the youth the necessity of virtue. The singers who wrote out the words of the songs failed to appreciate the sequence of phrases in the verse they sang. Story song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Mwanaya (This child)
- Authors: Chiko Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald District f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156135 , vital:39955 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-14
- Description: "The child cries because it is not mine." The father of this seven months old child took his baby in his arms and sang two lullabies, which he said his wife did not know how to sing. The child was as good as gold during the first, but cried all through the second. In spite of the words of the second song, the child was in fact his own. He called himself "Extra Zambezi" for some private reason. Lullaby.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Mwee amai (Why mother?)
- Authors: Young 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 Pemba f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159033 , vital:40252 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-21
- Description: "Mother, why do you tell me something other than that which was written in the letter?" The letter was written by her brother. Ciwoda dance for women.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Mwezi mtondo (Month after next)
- Authors: Katunga and Mailoso (8 and 6 years old). Son and nephew of the chief , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa District f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156148 , vital:39956 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-15
- Description: Mpheta is said to be a kind of small river or reed bird (unidentified). The tuning of the xylophone is as follows; 832, 624, 576, 480, 424, 384, 312, 288, 240, 212. Tune without lyrics, Magogodo xylophone, lose notes.
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- Date Issued: 1958
NaBanda naPhiri (Banda and Phiri)
- Authors: Young boys and girls , 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/10962/156063 , vital:39947 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-07
- Description: 'Banda and Phiri, I started calling you long ago now you are left behind. A good example of Mang'anja clapping. The language spoken by these Chikunda emigrants into this region from the Zambezi valley near Tete is much mixed up with the local Mang'anja. Njole dance with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Nabo aba Ngoni (Here are the Ngoni)
- Authors: Group of 14 Ngoni men and chorus of women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
- Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137629 , vital:37544 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-14
- Description: This tune is clearly not Ngoni but Nsenga in orign and is sung in the style of their mothers' tribe and not their father's of Ngoni orign (Natal).
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- Date Issued: 1957
Najele (The beads around your neck, Najele)
- Authors: Ezra Chimpanda and 2 Chewa men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza, Kota Kota District, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153569 , vital:39480 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-05
- Description: "The beads around your neck, Najele, I am tired." Najele was the name of his wife. Drinking song/
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- Date Issued: 1958
Namalumbe (Nightjars)
- Authors: Young Men and women , 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/10962/156045 , vital:39945 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-05
- Description: "Nightjars, nightjars, my girl walk nicely. Nightjars, my girl, when it is dark walk nicely. Njiri dance
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- Date Issued: 1958
Namaye Bikitara wakwere bus (We heard the Bikitara has taken a bus)
- Authors: Bikitara Banda and friend , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Pemba f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158990 , vital:40248 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-17
- Description: "We hear that Bikitara has taken a bus and gone home. And if he should die there we would be very sorry." The tuning of the Bangwe was; 488, 456, 416, 380, 324, 304. The top string (above 488) was not in tune. Self delectative song with Bangwe board zither.
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- Date Issued: 1958