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Munthy wakakora njoka

- Alfulidi Nyoni, Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Alfulidi Nyoni , Tumbuka men , 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 Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186253 , vital:44478 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-05
  • Description: A certain man picked up a snake and took it home. He did it under a basket but his child lifted up the basket while he was away and let the snake out. The man was very angry and told the child to go and bring it back. The snake escaped into the water and the child brought back several other things but not the snake. Eventually he found the snake and brought it back. Later he went into the bush and founf a grasshopper. This he brought back and this time the father let it go. So the child told the father he should fetch his grasshopper back. The father agreed but while looking for the grasshopper he was caught and eaten by a lion. Story song
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Amacila kuwowa

- Banda, Rabsoni, Chewa men, Tracey, Hugh

Tilira ife (We cry for those who left Gwero)

- Boys of Chief Mwasi's village, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Boys of Chief Mwasi's village , 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/10962/159574 , vital:40313 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-03
  • Description: "We cry for the boys who have left Gwero (the boma of Kasungu). Such as Kaziyambe Zimba, Mbelere Phiri who went to Lusaka. Stars shone on them, teaching them cleanliness. They are pround in Cape Town." The Muganda dance with Malipenga horns is usually performed in three parts, the first and third parts being with horns and the second, of which this is an example, without horns. Muganda dance (part 2) with brass drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

M' Sodomo (Sodom was burnt)

- Boys of Chief Mwasi's village, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Boys of Chief Mwasi's village , 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/10962/159565 , vital:40312 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-02
  • Description: "The headquaters of our dance team are here at Gwero and we are going to sing the song Sodom", was the introduction by the young leader. "There was a fire in Sodom." This has been a popular dance since 1927 or thereabouts. The dancers alternately sing openly and sing through their Lipenga horns. How the subject of Sodom and its destruction came to be chosen as a dance motif is a mystery. Maganda dance (Part 1) with 12 Malipenga singing horns.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Tamanga simbi

- Boys of Chief Mwasi's village, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Boys of Chief Mwasi's village , 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/10962/159585 , vital:40314 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-04
  • Description: "We have handcuffed them, we of Linga Boma. Although you are proud today, you will see!" The dancers go in groupd called Boma and challenge each other in the dance and in singing with with the Malipenga horns and boast about their performances. The Malipenga were all made out of gourds with mirlton membranes over the small end. The sound quality of the bass singers was good owing to their use of the gourds of adequate size and shape. Their song is a familiar type of boasting to be found among dance teams in most parts of Africa familiar to us. Muganda dance (part 3) with tweleve Malipenga singing horns and drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Amati akatambe tilawe

- Chewa girls, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Chewa girls , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187335 , vital:44610 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR192-13
  • Description: "She wanted to go dancing, but she got into trouble and could not go." The girls stand in a circle and come out in pairs prancing a few steps in the centre of the circle. They retire and the next two come out until the whole circle has been completed. It was done very gracefully. Mcoma dance song for women and girls, with 2 golblet drums, one weighted and whistles (-11.515-)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

A Kawoko ndi ndhondo

- Chewa girls, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Chewa girls , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187344 , vital:44613 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR192-14
  • Description: This dance song reflects a local tragedy. There was a certain white man, popularly called 'Kawoko', a game warden in this district, they say, who had only one hand. There had been a recent campaign to shoot baboons (in 1949) which were destroying the fields. During the shooting, they allege, he missed the baboons but shot some of the men who were driving the baboons out of the bush. The African beaters also had guns and were shooting and some say it was their eratic shooting which caused the casualities. Three men died that day and Kawoko was blamed as he was in charge of the group. He left the district shortly afterwards. Mcoma dance song for women and girls, with 2 golblet drums, one weighted and whistles (-11.515-)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

A Mwase ndibwerekani mthenga wanu

- Chewa girls, Tracey, Hugh

Maundi

- Chewa girls at Mwase, Hugh Tracey

Tisankhe lero = Choose now

- Chewa girls at Mwase, Tracey, Hugh

Sanje

- Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Asimati kotokoto

- Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

  • 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.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mungabvale

- Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Mwana wanga (My child)

- Edess Nyalongwe, Hugh Tracey

  • 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

Nyandalalani (The disobedient girl)

- Edess Nyalongwe and Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Songa mbiriwiri (Cover yourself)

- Elizabeth Banda and Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Ndingindi (The well dressed man)

- Elizabeth Banda and Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Okoma sakwatana

- Ganizani Nyirenda, Hugh Tracey

Paja mundikonda mundilembele kalata

- Ganizani Nyirenda, Hugh Tracey

A Yotamu amati andimange

- Ganizani Nyirenda, Hugh Tracey

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