Ode tate, kuseli kwaphili kuli njati (There is a buffalo)
- C. Banda and G. Phiri, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: C. Banda and G. Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chadza village, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153665 , vital:39495 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-14
- Description: "There is a buffalo behind the hill, Ngala, let us go and shoot it." " No, no, my bow is broken!" The hill Ngala is a big, solid granite boss about 30 and 40 ft. high, about a mile fro, the village. "A woman is just naturally immoral. She has tattoo marks inside her thighs. She will sell her body for any small thing such as pennies, to find sugar cane for herself." Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: C. Banda and G. Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chadza village, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153665 , vital:39495 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-14
- Description: "There is a buffalo behind the hill, Ngala, let us go and shoot it." " No, no, my bow is broken!" The hill Ngala is a big, solid granite boss about 30 and 40 ft. high, about a mile fro, the village. "A woman is just naturally immoral. She has tattoo marks inside her thighs. She will sell her body for any small thing such as pennies, to find sugar cane for herself." Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Panari mtsikana wina (The girl and the beads)
- Boys of Masula village, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Boys of Masula 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158544 , vital:40205 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-09
- Description: An equivalent story to one in Southern Rhodesia. There were three girls who went to the river to get water. They had big strings of beads but one forgot her beads down by the river and when she got home she told her brothers and asked them to take her back to the river to look for them. They refused, so she went alone. She found a hyena who had taken her beads and put them inside a drum and then when she arrived he caught her and put her inside the drum also. He then went to the village to play the drum. The people of the village heard her singing inside the drum. They cooked food and gave it to the hyena who, as soon as he had eaten the food began to play the drum. He went to another village and did the same. The girl inside the drum got very hot but eventually her brothers saved her by cutting open the drum and the hyena diasppeared. A were-wolf story. Nthano story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Boys of Masula 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158544 , vital:40205 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-09
- Description: An equivalent story to one in Southern Rhodesia. There were three girls who went to the river to get water. They had big strings of beads but one forgot her beads down by the river and when she got home she told her brothers and asked them to take her back to the river to look for them. They refused, so she went alone. She found a hyena who had taken her beads and put them inside a drum and then when she arrived he caught her and put her inside the drum also. He then went to the village to play the drum. The people of the village heard her singing inside the drum. They cooked food and gave it to the hyena who, as soon as he had eaten the food began to play the drum. He went to another village and did the same. The girl inside the drum got very hot but eventually her brothers saved her by cutting open the drum and the hyena diasppeared. A were-wolf story. Nthano story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Dongo-Dongola (The Clay child)
- Children of Salima Government school, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Children of Salima Government school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Salima f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160143 , vital:40392 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-19
- Description: "A woman who had no child went to the 'doctor' who gave her medicine to make a child out of clay. He warned her that the child should never get wet. When it had grown up it was playing outside one day when the rain came. The mother quickly climbed onto an anthill and called the child 'Dongola. Dongola'! (clay). But the child got wet in the rain and when it came to the mother and she tried to pick it up it just melted away." This story which illustrates the intense desire of every African woman to have a child of her own is found in several parts of Africa. I first heard it in Southern Rhodesia among the Karanga of the Bikita district. In other socities the same instinct is frequently sublimated with pets or adoptions. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Children of Salima Government school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Salima f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160143 , vital:40392 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-19
- Description: "A woman who had no child went to the 'doctor' who gave her medicine to make a child out of clay. He warned her that the child should never get wet. When it had grown up it was playing outside one day when the rain came. The mother quickly climbed onto an anthill and called the child 'Dongola. Dongola'! (clay). But the child got wet in the rain and when it came to the mother and she tried to pick it up it just melted away." This story which illustrates the intense desire of every African woman to have a child of her own is found in several parts of Africa. I first heard it in Southern Rhodesia among the Karanga of the Bikita district. In other socities the same instinct is frequently sublimated with pets or adoptions. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Inu A'Kachere (You Kachere)
- By elderly men at Kachere's village, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: By elderly men at Kachere's village , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153392 , vital:39447 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-10
- Description: One of the songs said to have been sung after a tribal raid - a morality song after victory, so that the people will continue to be strong and not be thrown out of their country. It was sung when Europeans first entered the country about the end of the last century when Sir Harry Johnstone first ruled the country. "You! It is A Kachere who has increased the population of this country. There should not be prostitutes, it is forbidden or you will be thrown out by the white men." The Kachere mentioned in the song was the father of the present Chief who is about 70 years old. The song is no doubt derived from the old Nguni custom of purification after fighting. A fighting song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: By elderly men at Kachere's village , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153392 , vital:39447 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-10
- Description: One of the songs said to have been sung after a tribal raid - a morality song after victory, so that the people will continue to be strong and not be thrown out of their country. It was sung when Europeans first entered the country about the end of the last century when Sir Harry Johnstone first ruled the country. "You! It is A Kachere who has increased the population of this country. There should not be prostitutes, it is forbidden or you will be thrown out by the white men." The Kachere mentioned in the song was the father of the present Chief who is about 70 years old. The song is no doubt derived from the old Nguni custom of purification after fighting. A fighting song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Chikangaude (The spider)
- Daliya Kafaniza, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158003 , vital:40138 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-07
- Description: A long time ago I went to the garden and there came a certain spider which turned into a man who told my children to give him some clothes to wear. The man told the children he had been sent by their mother. So he took the clothes and disappeared. "Children are children, they take their clothes from their clothes bag and give they away to anyone." Story song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158003 , vital:40138 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-07
- Description: A long time ago I went to the garden and there came a certain spider which turned into a man who told my children to give him some clothes to wear. The man told the children he had been sent by their mother. So he took the clothes and disappeared. "Children are children, they take their clothes from their clothes bag and give they away to anyone." Story song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Mangondo azipita (Mangondo must go)
- Livinia Jere and 2 Chewa women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Livinia Jere and 2 Chewa women , 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, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153383 , vital:39445 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-09
- Description: Sung very quietly. "The girl Mangondo must not miss the last of the wedding ceremonies. "Mangondo must go to the last wedding ceremony, Ha-iya-ho, dance father." Weddiing song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Livinia Jere and 2 Chewa women , 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, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153383 , vital:39445 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-09
- Description: Sung very quietly. "The girl Mangondo must not miss the last of the wedding ceremonies. "Mangondo must go to the last wedding ceremony, Ha-iya-ho, dance father." Weddiing song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Charo Charo (The country, country)
- Adija Nyamkhomo and Chewa women and children, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Adija Nyamkhomo and Chewa women and children , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kota Kota, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153694 , vital:39500 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-17
- Description: "Come and see how Mr. Gower is mending the roads in the country." Mr. Gower is a member of the Agricultural Department and has been responsible for making in the Kota Kota district near the lake. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Adija Nyamkhomo and Chewa women and children , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kota Kota, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153694 , vital:39500 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-17
- Description: "Come and see how Mr. Gower is mending the roads in the country." Mr. Gower is a member of the Agricultural Department and has been responsible for making in the Kota Kota district near the lake. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Melo (Name of a man)
- Young girls and 4 drummers, Hugh Tracey
- 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/10962/155811 , vital:39919 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-01
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- 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/10962/155811 , vital:39919 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-01
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Inu A Nambewe, inu A Phiri (You Nambewa, you Phiri)
- Five elderly Chewa men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Five elderly 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 Dedza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160242 , vital:40425 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-09
- Description: After singing their song they tap their bamboo friction sticks and laugh and blow into the ends of the bamboos. A widow has to put string into her hair for two years after the husband dies, to mourn for him. The wicked old man is egging on the widow to be merry again. When this recording was played to some villagers in a nearby district, the Chief Njolomole was specially delighted to hear the blowing down the bamboo tubes at the end of the performance, an old drinking party custom, it appeared. "You Nambewa, you Phiri (two widows). Have you already taken off your mourning strings before you have finished mourning for your husband. You A Nabetha, and you A Naketha?" Drinking party dance song. Umkwenda with friction sticks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Five elderly 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 Dedza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160242 , vital:40425 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-09
- Description: After singing their song they tap their bamboo friction sticks and laugh and blow into the ends of the bamboos. A widow has to put string into her hair for two years after the husband dies, to mourn for him. The wicked old man is egging on the widow to be merry again. When this recording was played to some villagers in a nearby district, the Chief Njolomole was specially delighted to hear the blowing down the bamboo tubes at the end of the performance, an old drinking party custom, it appeared. "You Nambewa, you Phiri (two widows). Have you already taken off your mourning strings before you have finished mourning for your husband. You A Nabetha, and you A Naketha?" Drinking party dance song. Umkwenda with friction sticks.
- Full Text: false
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kalolo (Kalolo's hunger)
- Young girls and 5 drummers, Hugh Tracey
- 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/10962/155865 , vital:39925 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-07
- Description: It appears that Kalolo had no food in his house and went hungry. The 1st drummer plays No's. 1 and 2. The 2nd drummer, the Chief drummer plays No's. 2 to 6. The 3rd drummer plays No. 6 and 7. The 4th drummer plays No. 8. The 5th drummer plays No. 9. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- 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/10962/155865 , vital:39925 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-07
- Description: It appears that Kalolo had no food in his house and went hungry. The 1st drummer plays No's. 1 and 2. The 2nd drummer, the Chief drummer plays No's. 2 to 6. The 3rd drummer plays No. 6 and 7. The 4th drummer plays No. 8. The 5th drummer plays No. 9. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Sikusinja
- J. W. Gwengwe and Chewa boys, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: J. W. Gwengwe 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 Dedza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160197 , vital:40418 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-04
- Description: Sikusinja was a rich man who was killed by his brother Gwenembe. A bird saw him do it and flew to the village to tell everyone what had happened. Through his singing the people understood what had happened. Gwenembe was a poor man who coveted his brothers belongings, and that is why he killed him. The bird when singing said, "Don't wonder, I saw Gwenembe killing Sikusinja and all the things he took." Eventually Gwenembe was taken to Kachere for Judgment and he was put to death. It is a story with a moral. 'Be sure your sins will find you out!' The bird witness is a constant African Image. "Sikusinja was a rich man. He was killed by his brother Gwenembe. The bird saw himdo it." The accompaniment of a guitar in this kind od story is unsual and a recent innovation only. Nthano story with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: J. W. Gwengwe 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 Dedza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160197 , vital:40418 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-04
- Description: Sikusinja was a rich man who was killed by his brother Gwenembe. A bird saw him do it and flew to the village to tell everyone what had happened. Through his singing the people understood what had happened. Gwenembe was a poor man who coveted his brothers belongings, and that is why he killed him. The bird when singing said, "Don't wonder, I saw Gwenembe killing Sikusinja and all the things he took." Eventually Gwenembe was taken to Kachere for Judgment and he was put to death. It is a story with a moral. 'Be sure your sins will find you out!' The bird witness is a constant African Image. "Sikusinja was a rich man. He was killed by his brother Gwenembe. The bird saw himdo it." The accompaniment of a guitar in this kind od story is unsual and a recent innovation only. Nthano story with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Cimbwiwe (The Hyena)
- 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/10962/153455 , vital:39454 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-16
- Description: "The Hyena cried all night long. 'Mu-u-u it cried. The husband (with many wives) has failed us today Nyilonga is sick today (so he says) 'Mu-u-u' it cried. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- 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/10962/153455 , vital:39454 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-16
- Description: "The Hyena cried all night long. 'Mu-u-u it cried. The husband (with many wives) has failed us today Nyilonga is sick today (so he says) 'Mu-u-u' it cried. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Nkhanu (The crab)
- Miriam Nyalongwe and Chewa women, Hugh Tracey
- 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
- 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
Amai, Amai, ndikunene eleli (Mother, mother, I will say much to you)
- Daliya Kafaniza and Manganja women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza and Manganja 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/10962/155802 , vital:39918 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-15
- Description: "My mother, mother, I will say much to you. You have taken my child. I myself am only small. You have taken my child. No, you have taken my child, as I say." Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza and Manganja 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/10962/155802 , vital:39918 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-15
- Description: "My mother, mother, I will say much to you. You have taken my child. I myself am only small. You have taken my child. No, you have taken my child, as I say." Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Tikangomva (Yellow cloth)
- Faresi Gama and Najuzi Phiri (woman), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Faresi Gama and Najuzi Phiri (woman) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Masula, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153815 , vital:39525 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-06
- Description: "We heard that you bought a yellow cloth and we know at once you were going to be very proud of it. This usually happens at Masula." Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Faresi Gama and Najuzi Phiri (woman) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Masula, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153815 , vital:39525 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-06
- Description: "We heard that you bought a yellow cloth and we know at once you were going to be very proud of it. This usually happens at Masula." Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
A Namageli
- Faresi Gama and Nadiesi Namulinde, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Faresi Gama and Nadiesi Namulinde , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Masula, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153482 , vital:39457 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-19
- Description: A Namageli, the woman, waas called to Chief Masura's court and while in the court she gave to her child. She had been asked to expalin how she had obtained her child in the absence of her husband in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. The dramatic appearance of the child at the moment of investigations was a cause of merriment to all concerned. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Faresi Gama and Nadiesi Namulinde , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Masula, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153482 , vital:39457 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-19
- Description: A Namageli, the woman, waas called to Chief Masura's court and while in the court she gave to her child. She had been asked to expalin how she had obtained her child in the absence of her husband in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. The dramatic appearance of the child at the moment of investigations was a cause of merriment to all concerned. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Amandi phikila kholowa (He cooked me sweet potatoe leaves)
- Young boys and girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Young boys and 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/10962/160098 , vital:40383 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-14
- Description: Sweet potatoe leaves are frequently used with monkey nuts as a dish in this region, it is said. There was once a man who went to visit a friend who had many fowls. Now expecting that his friend would kill a fowl and cook it for him, he was very disappointed as his friend only cooked sweet potatoe leaves. When he went back home he began to complain saying he would never forget the meanness of his friend in refusing him a fowl. Nthano story for clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Young boys and 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/10962/160098 , vital:40383 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-14
- Description: Sweet potatoe leaves are frequently used with monkey nuts as a dish in this region, it is said. There was once a man who went to visit a friend who had many fowls. Now expecting that his friend would kill a fowl and cook it for him, he was very disappointed as his friend only cooked sweet potatoe leaves. When he went back home he began to complain saying he would never forget the meanness of his friend in refusing him a fowl. Nthano story for clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Lembani kalata kwa Masula (Write to Masula)
- Three young girls of Masula, Hugh Tracey
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958