Namwali (The girl)
- Authors: Joachim Mwale , 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/10962/159001 , vital:40249 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-18
- Description: It is a commonly held belief that salt tasted or used by women while they cohabit with their husbands has the effect of bringing on conception. A woman having an illicit love affair therefore tries to avoid salt. "The girl who illicitly cohabts with her lover does not touch salt. 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
Nana, ndili kupita (Sister, I am going)
- Authors: George Zongoloti , 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/10962/155703 , vital:39907 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-04
- Description: "Sister, I am going, keeping crocodiles, fish and everything there as you do! Do not play with young boys or girls. The small boy will kill you and might keep those things I told you about, rice, maize and flour which belong to you. So mind you do not play with them!" The singer keeps some magical objects such as crocodiles and fish with which to make her own magic. The singer warns his sister not to show the children her magical objects or she will be punished for it. Topicla song with Nthikwi drum.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Nanchengwe (The Hamerkop (a bird))
- 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/10962/156072 , vital:39948 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-08
- Description: "Hamerkop, who told you to put on a black coat? Do not say that women are flowers (play things)." The Hamerkop is a brown water bird, peculiar to Africa, which is classified somewhere between the Herons and the Storks, yet belonging to neither. Kwana dance.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Nangule pepe (I am sorry 'Nangule'! (a kind of bird)
- Authors: Duncan Nkhalamba and Chewa boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Karonga, Salima, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154066 , vital:39559 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-12
- Description: " Sorry, Nangule, sorry Nangule, your eggs are being taken." A hyena came and stole some of the eggs so the other bird called Nangule who killed the hyena and threw him into a ditch. An elephant also stole some eggs and did in the same way. All the eggs were finished, but Nangule paid the other bird its wages in spite of the loss of all its eggs. Nangule (the bird) hired another to take care of its eggs. Story song (Nthanu).
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- Date Issued: 1958
Nangwe
- 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/10962/153435 , vital:39451 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-14
- Description: "If I have a child, what will I carry it with, on my back? Here is one who loves relish. Angeya - eyaye- iwe-ee! Those who have food are without trouble." Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Nchuwa (The four row game)
- Authors: Donald Mpunda Banda and two Chewa men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159980 , vital:40363 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-01
- Description: "Even although you have given me Cinthele cloth, I will still run away to Baloni." Nchuwa is the game with four rows of holes or cups in the ground played with seeds or pebbles, and the sketch is meant to represent an exciting game between friends. It is a game of very ancient orign and is found widely throughout Eastern Africa under a number of different names and rules. It is said to have been imported into Africa by Arabs or people further East as long ago as the 10th century. Sketch-impromptu.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Ndachinyuka, Pitoria (I will say no more, Pitoria)
- Authors: George Zongoloti and chorus of small girls , 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/10962/155721 , vital:39909 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-06
- Description: The two people mentioned in the song are imaginary and not actual people. "I will not say any more, Pitoria (sometimes pronounced Vitoria by the singers). For you have no teeth left. "Yes" she said, "but you Bitoni, when you come near you sound like Thomas, you make a noise like a motor car engine. When you laugh you make a noise like a maize mill." Pitoria was an old woman who was married to Bitoni. He told her she was now to old. Topical song with Nthikuri barrel drum.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Ndachiona kale (I saw it long ago)
- 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/10962/155921 , vital:39931 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-12
- Description: The singer makes only the simplest remarks in his lyric, such as "Go to Jubeki" (Johannesburg). Self delectative song with board zither.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Ndaji! Jize! (Ready! Right!)
- Authors: Mulanzi and Malunja , 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/10962/155644 , vital:39903 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-14
- Description: Riddles are an ever popular pastime among many tribes. In the distance can be heard young boys, playing a drum over on the other side of the village. The call "Ndaji" is sometimes "Ndagi'. Riddles.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Ndayamba dale (I start, darling)
- 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/10962/155874 , vital:39926 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-08
- Description: A certain girl was complaining about not having her own house, so her young man then promised to start building it so that they could get married. The immense percussive sound of the nine drums completely drowns the voices of the girls only a few yards away. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Ndaza apa ndaima (I am here waiting)
- Authors: Bifi Phiri 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/10962/158945 , vital:40243 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-13
- Description: "I am here, waiting. Whose child is this that maltreats an oprhan. I am very tired of the Johannesburg road. Because I am left on my own. Kacule, Kacule, save me!" Self delectative song with board zither.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Ndi shuye ndi kalele mwana
- 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/10962/160781 , vital:40537 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-03
- 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
Ndikati ubwera ulendo waimba wisulo kunjila
- Authors: Tweleve 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/10962/155766 , vital:39914 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-11
- Description: "I supposed you would come back from your journey singing as you came along the path. But you have gone for good." A woman is being justifyably caustic about her husband who is going away on a journey presumably leaving her to do all the work. Pairs of singers sing alternately, the second pair repeating what the first initiated. Chitsukulumwe dance with rattles and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Ndimgayo Timba (The bird Timba)
- 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/10962/155847 , vital:39923 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-05
- Description: Timba is supposed to be either a small Tit or a Wren. The song, they say is from the Sena further down the Shire river near its confluence with the Zambezi. Likhuba dance song for young women with 2 tin rattles and clappers.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Ndinali naye m'ngono wanga (I had a young brother)
- Authors: Robson Cibwe and Chewa boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158472 , vital:40194 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-01
- Description: "I had a young brother, though now I will walk alone. I had an elder brother, though now I walk alone. It is because I have no money or I would buy eternal life. When I run to the bush, there are snakes. When I run away to the village, there is magic." A song of a man lamenting the death of his younger brother by the Angoni. Lament with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Ndingindi (The well dressed man)
- Authors: Elizabeth Banda and 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/10962/159649 , vital:40321 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-11
- Description: There was once a young woman who asked her brother Kamchada whether he would allow her to go and see a young man who put on shoes, hat and trousers. She was very surprised to see a man so dressed as she had never seen such clothes before. She was so delighted she wanted to marry him. It seems to be a simple case falling in love with the uniform. Story song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Ndiza fera chuma (I never have enough money)
- Authors: Sitero Mbewe and Frank Mukweza , 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 Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160816 , vital:40548 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-07
- Description: "I left my mother in 1950 and came to work. I had no money for I spent it all on women." This song was performed by Chewa men who had come over from Nyasaland to Rhodesia where they were employed upon the constructio of the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi river. Topical song with two guitars.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ng'ombe zaya (His cattle)
- Authors: Kampala Mware and Chewa boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159989 , vital:40364 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-02
- Description: The listeners answer 'Tilitonsi' "We are together". There was once a man who had some cows and he went to herd them out in the bush. When he felt hungry he went to a certain tree to cook a few grains of maize to eat. When he had eaten all he had cooked, he looked up and found his cows had disappeared. He called his son and told him the cattle had gone. "Bring me an arrow" he said, and then he sang this magic song "Ng'ombe dzaya" so they were able to find the animals again and took them back to the village. Nthano story song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Nga, nga, nga, nda reka (Lift and drop)
- Authors: Bauleni Zhuau , 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/10962/155829 , vital:39921 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-03
- Description: The drum leader was not satisfied with the pitch of the drums and stopped playing to adjust the amount of wax on two of the drums and then started again while the girls continued to sing. The wax is made of caster oil beans pounded up, it sticks onto the drum heads in spite of the continual beating of sticks and hands. The addition of wax or paste lowers the note of the drum and the removal of quite a small amount of wax raises the note. Thus the drums can be tunned with reasonable accuracy. The players brought more paste on the drum heads than they needed, no doubt because a certain amount is lost in playing and then tuned by removing a certain amount on each head with a curved piece of tin shaped like a spoon. Note the stress upon the final syllable of Reka NdaReka. Likhuba dance with 9 tuned drums.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Ngagashupeke ngi mabunu (We are being trouble by Boers)
- 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/10962/137611 , vital:37542 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-12
- Description: This was probably composed long ago when the people of Mzilikazi were being driven out of the Transvaal by the Boers in the middle of the nineteenth century. The singers agreed that this was a Ndebele song not of the Ngoni songs - but they said their languages were so similar that they had adopted it. Ngoma dance song with stamping and 1 pair of leg rattles.
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- Date Issued: 1957