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Yo baba ngonile

- Xkama, the head wife and the seven Ngoni wives of the Chief, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Wasepuka na mbuzi

- Wareni Mkwandawiri, Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Munthu na chinkwanya

- Verrah Chirwa, Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Oyo oyo wanize

- The seven wives of the Chief, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: The seven wives of the Chief , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Zulu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160907 , vital:40560 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-17
  • Description: The women, the members of the brides party depart and they wish the bride 'goodbye'. The song long associated with the Zulu wedding custom in Natal but separated by over 100 years and a thousand miles, show how persistent and nostalgic old songs can be in a strange land inhabited by African 'colonials'. Wedding song.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Sinibonani mtimba (Good morning bride)

- The seven wives of the Chief, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: The seven wives of the Chief , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Zulu , Zulu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Zulu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160898 , vital:40559 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-16
  • Description: The spokesman of the bridegroom presents his man, and the women sing their acceptance of him, sitting on the ground. The song ends with 'Bayete' (hail). The song long associated with the Zulu wedding custom in Natal but separated by over 100 years and a thousand miles, show how persistent and nostalgic old songs can be in a strange land inhabited by African 'colonials'. Wedding song.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

A Luwe

- Taines Chirwa, Nancy Luhana, Tumbuka girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Taines Chirwa , Nancy Luhana , Tumbuka girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185168 , vital:44335 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-14
  • Description: Luwe was the name of a certain man who had no children. He had married a woman who bore him no babes. The pre-occupation in the African mind with the question of offspring is frequently the subject of songs. The 'A' before the proper name is the equivalent of the English 'Mr.' (Mister). Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Namfikilankhu

- Taines Chirwa, Nancy Luhana, Tumbuka girls, Hugh Tracey

A Tembo

- Taines Chirwa, Nancy Luhana, Tumbuka girls, Hugh Tracey

Wadikulu wajikoma

- Shonga, Nezala, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Shonga, Nezala , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950-05-26
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/211384 , vital:47609 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT175-D34 , Research no. D2A10
  • Description: Humorous song with Bango Board Zither accompaniment.
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  • Date Issued: 1950-05-26

Woca mwana

- Shonga, Nezala, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Shonga, Nezala , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950-05-26
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/211406 , vital:47611 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT175-D34 , Research no. D2A9
  • Description: Humorous song with Bango Board Zither accompaniment.
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  • Date Issued: 1950-05-26

Chakunaka

- Paulosi Jere, Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Paulosi Jere , Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185795 , vital:44430 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-01
  • Description: This story, told by an old woman, of the handsome young man and his jealous mother is almost identical with a similar story I found amongst the Karanga of Southern Rhodesia in 1932. The story concerns a handsome young man who wanted to get married but his jealous mother made him promise that he would not marry any girl who ate food cooked by her. Girl after girl was turned away until one discovered the secret pact, refused the mother's food and married the handsome son. The Ngoni of the Jiri clan came up through the southern regions of what became Southern Rhodesia sacking the settlement at Zimbabwe on their way. It is clear that they must have captured a girl from that region who bore her master children to whom she taught her own home stories in Karanga and they in turn handed them on to the next generation. In Bikita district Southern Rhodesia, the chorus sings:- "Tiende gore tiende gore" instead of the Ngoni in this version. "Ce ce gore, ce ce gore." Story with song
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Majoni

- Patiriki Mphaka, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Patiriki Mphaka , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185258 , vital:44358 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-04
  • Description: This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. "All my people are sead, I alone remain." This simple song is typical of those of the older generation of musicians. The tuning of the Bango was:- 256, 236, 216, 198, 178, 156, 140 vs. Self delectative song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kwenda munthowa nkluweme

- Patiriki Mphaka, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Patiriki Mphaka , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185249 , vital:44357 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-03
  • Description: This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. "It is good to walk along the path because then it is I meet my love." This simple song is typical of those of the older generation of musicians. The tuning of the Bango was:- 256, 236, 216, 198, 178, 156, 140 vs. Self delectative song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ngubani o'sibizela elamgeni

- Ngoni men, Ngoni women, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

Roda ndirinde

- Nezala Shongs, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nezala Shongs , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185095 , vital:44327 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-06
  • Description: "Roda wait for me, I have been following you a long way. Please wait, I want to talk yo you." The singer is Ngoni buy belongs to one of the small Ngoni groups now living amongst the Tumbuka. Love song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Zelina

- Nezala Shongs, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nezala Shongs , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185104 , vital:44328 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-07
  • Description: "Zelina I have touched your girdle of beads." This singer is a Ngoni singing in Tumbuka, the language of the people amongst whom he lives. To touch the bead girdle is an indication of success in love.Love song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

A buthu wa cimbira

- Nancy Luhoma, Mwenela Kaunda, Hugh Tracey

A pongozi mbanonoko

- Nancy Luhoma, Mwenela Kaunda, Hugh Tracey

Eda iwe, zomela

- Mwenela Kaunda, Tumbuka girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mwenela Kaunda , Tumbuka girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185159 , vital:44334 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-13
  • Description: Pounding with three pestles to one mortar. Six or seven girls stand around the mortar and take turns tp pound. One girl on each repeat of the tune, throws her pestle up into the air to the next on her left, this girl catches it in mid air and first pounds lightly on the edge of the mortar (the sound of which can be clearly heard) and then in the mortar until it is her turn to throw it on to her neighbor who repeats the process. Since the pestles weigh about 20 lbs. each, this game at the mortar takes considerable skill and strength. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Zamapembe sesiyandinda

- Kiti Shunga, Ngoni men and women, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey

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