Ku Mchisi kuli mtengo (At Mchisi there is a tree)
- Authors: Visanza girl's school choir , 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/10962/160007 , vital:40367 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-04
- Description: The Nkaodi tree is used as a love charm, the roots being taken soaked in water and drunk, mostly by women in the hope that their husbands will love them more. It would appear that this tune, used as a dance theme in the 1930's reflected the European influence of the period, with the stress incorrectly applied to the ultimate syllables. "At Mchisi there is a tree as a medicine. It is Nkaodi. Two Nsita dance songs for women with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Ana amuna (Young men ought to put on grey trousers)
- Authors: Three young girls of Masula , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158508 , vital:40199 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-05
- Description: Song sung in the late evening after supper just before they go to sleep are a feature of the musical life of the Chewa it would appear. Young women are becoming more dress conscious and demand that their young men dress better. Evening song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Lembani kalata kwa Masula (Write to Masula)
- Authors: Three young girls of Masula , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158517 , vital:40201 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-06
- Description: A song sung as if far away from home. It was first sung at Citukula's district, about 3 miles away they say."Write a letter to Masula saying it is very far. No, I do not want to put money in the bus (pay for the bus fare)." Evening song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Kupita Onaphili (Onaphili has died)
- Authors: Thawani 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 Mubvi, Salima District f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156780 , vital:40049 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-04
- Description: A child sings about the death of the mother Onaphila and also laments the death of other membersof her family. Lament with Bangwe board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Patse mtondo wanga (Give me my mortar)
- Authors: Thawani 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 Mubvi, Salima District f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156810 , vital:40052 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-06
- Description: A woman who has no child of her own complains to her friend who has a child. "Give me my mortar. I also need flour." But she has no child to help her. Sung with considerable feeling for the situation in which the woman finds herself. Lament (also used as a drinking song) with Bangwe board zither.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Omuna wanga (Oh! my husband)
- Authors: Thawani 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 Mubvi, Salima District f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156788 , vital:40050 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-05
- Description: A woman complaining to her brother that he has married her off to a bad husband who beats her. She asks to go to Karonga (the chief) to be divorced. Her husband has no money to buy her beer but he buys it for a stranger. Lament with Bangwe board zither.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Angozo
- Authors: Small 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 Ncheu f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160124 , vital:40388 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-17
- Description: Who Angoso might have been and what he had done could not be explained, but the song was no doubt founded on fact, and the singing of this song would ensure publicity. "Amgozo (man's name) you are indiscreet. You have not kept out affair private.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Amuna ali kwanga (The husband I have)
- Authors: Small 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 Ncheu f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160066 , vital:40378 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-11
- Description: African men are still reluctant to share in the agricultural work of the village. "The husband I have is good at eating, but when I ask him to work in the garden he is always sick." Girls song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
A m'bwalo (Unmarried boys)
- Authors: Small 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 Ncheu f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160061 , vital:40377 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-10
- Description: The boys go around at night in a group to tease the girls by standing outside their huts, pulling out their sleeping mats and generally making nuisances of themselves, so it was explained. "Unmarried boys "teka-teka" they break the mats. They mock and they do not get fat. Shaking the mats. We will report them to the elders, for breaking our mats." Girls song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Owaha o Lomwe (When you come from Lomwe)
- Authors: Sitoni Maulidi and Dailoni Likluva , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160652 , vital:40489 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-10
- Description: This strange song is sung about three months after the burial, they say. "You befoul yourself. When you came from Lomwe, you had no plate. You met me, your friend, but have turned against me." Obseques after death, with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Chifundo chamanga (I long for my mother)
- Authors: Samson Zimba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasengu f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156845 , vital:40056 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-07
- Description: Sung by a lad of about 12 years old who sang this song in a quiet voice and was much applauded by everyone, whether for the singing or the sentiment, was not clear. Self delectative song with board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kaphika (Kaphika left his mother crying)
- Authors: Samson Zimba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasengu f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156856 , vital:40058 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-08
- Description: What Kaphika the child of Masiye had done to make his mother cry is not certain. Some said he had gone away from home for a long time. "Kaphika the child of Masiye has left his mother crying." The tuning of his Zither was:- 432, 408, 368, 340, 308, 276, 244. The intervals used by stopping alternate strings would be 278, 315, 306, 360, 403 cents. Self delectative song with board zither.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Ozani muone kuwala (Come and see the glory)
- Authors: Samkani Mponela , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159051 , vital:40254 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-23
- Description: This style of dancing is most popular in the Dowa district, where most large villages, they say, have their own groups of enthusiasts. "Come and see the glory of these boys". Not the European accent on the ultimate syllable. "muone kuwala", instead of the normal "mu'one kuw'ala". This may well spring from the fact that the Malipenga dance and its dance songs originated with military drilling as performed by the Kings African Rifles and the Nyasaland police. Mujanda dance with Malipenga singing horns.
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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
Kantengo (The tree)
- Authors: Muzize Mwane , 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/10962/160025 , vital:40371 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-06
- Description: "The tree that is in my father's garden has spoiled my dance. My friends, I worry too much about this tree spoiling my dance. Father, you have spoiled my dance with the tree you cut down in your garden." The Gule dance, they say, is done with masks. Dance song for Gule dance (Zinyau mask dance) with Karigo one stringed bowed lute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ine ndaleka sanje (I have left my jealousy)
- Authors: Mugizi Mware , 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/10962/159997 , vital:40365 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-03
- Description: The first wife of a certain man was jealous of the younger wife. The husband was arguing with her but she replied that she had indeed put jealousy behind her in the hut of her children. Her children were in fact her consolation. "I left my jealousy in the house of my son. Come and kneel, I have left my jealousy. Lament with Karigo one string bowed lute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Nkhanu (The crab)
- Authors: Miriam Nyalongwe 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/10962/159667 , vital:40325 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-13
- Description: There was once a crab which was trying to eat the husks of millet and the owner drove it away. When it went back into the water it told its mother that people were driving it away. The mother said "Leave them, they will come to draw water and we will see them." But when they came to draw water they found the crab telling its mother and they were afraid and ran back to the village to tell the boys who came with their bows and arrows to kill the crab, as they were afraid the crab might in some way take its revenge for being denied food. Story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Nkhanu (The crab)
- Authors: Miriam Nyalongwe 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/10962/159676 , vital:40324 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-13
- Description: There was once a crab which was trying to eat the husks of millet and the owner drove it away. When it went back into the water it told its mother that people were driving it away. The mother said "Leave them, they will come to draw water and we will see them." But when they came to draw water they found the crab telling its mother and they were afraid and ran back to the village to tell the boys who came with their bows and arrows to kill the crab, as they were afraid the crab might in some way take its revenge for being denied food. Story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Nimati ndikaone acete (I wanted to go and see Cete)
- Authors: Mavuto Mlanzi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158499 , vital:40198 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-04
- Description: During this song the singer interjected in Chewa, "I cannot sing properly as my voice is not nice." He uses the honorific 'A' before the name Chete. A Chete the equivalent of 'Mr. Chete' in English. Self delectative song with Kalimba.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Anali kudambo Chingodola (Chingodola went to draw water at the marsh)
- Authors: Mavuto Mlanzi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158490 , vital:40197 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-03
- Description: Chingodola went to the marsh to fetch water, then to fetch firewood and after that to look for relish. Her husband was annoyed that she did not come back sooner and began to swear at her and said "Dammit, you are like a 'galo', a dog. Self delectative song with Kalimba.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958