A buthu wa cimbira
- Authors: Nancy Luhoma , Mwenela Kaunda , 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/10962/185204 , vital:44339 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-18
- Description: "The girls have run away." Buthu refers to girls living at a boarding school. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
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- Date Issued: 1950
A Kawoko ndi ndhondo
- 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 Luwe
- 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
A Mwase ndibwerekani mthenga wanu
- 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/10962/187353 , vital:44614 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR192-15
- Description: "Mwase give me permission to send your messenger to call my dear love, I am tired of waiting." A graceful circle dance performed by young girls, pairs of dancers coming out into the circle at a time. 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 pongozi mbanonoko
- Authors: Nancy Luhoma , Mwenela Kaunda , 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/10962/185190 , vital:44338 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-17
- Description: In the this song one of the girls pounding became quite breathless with the effort and she could hardly sing the response. "My husband's people are difficult." Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
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- Date Issued: 1950
A Tembo
- 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/10962/185177 , vital:44336 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-15
- Description: The grain for the midday meal at this mission is ground by machine, but for the evening meal it is still done by the girls in a mortar. They say the mortar meal is more tasty. "The old woman runs down the hill to help pound." Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
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- Date Issued: 1950
A Yotamu amati andimange
- Authors: Ganizani Nyirenda , 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/10962/186585 , vital:44514 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-14
- Description: "Yotamu wanted the the chief to imprison me." The plaer sings, not in unison with his instrument, but in paraell with it. Tuning:- 792, 720, 592, 536, 476, 456, 396, 360, 296, 228. The player learnt his playing from a Nshenga at Fort Jameson called Jeremia Phiri in 1931. Self delectative song with 10 note Kalimba (Mbira)
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- Date Issued: 1950
Ada a Banda
- Authors: Lucy Nyamangwe , Tonga girls , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184549 , vital:44234 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-17
- Description: "My father, Banda, has gone off to work in the towns, for a long long time, to buy himself clothes." How true a reflection this is upon thousands of Tonga men in this district who go off to mines and towns for their own reasons leaving the women and children to fend for themselves at home. Many send back money, but as many others find local foreign girls and forget their home and children. Chioda dance song for young women with drum rhythm beaten on a box
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- Date Issued: 1950
Alhamdulilla
- Authors: Salim Zeydan with Arab men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Kenya , Songs, Swahili--Kenya , Songs, Swahili--Tanzania , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malindi f-ke
- Language: Arabic
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180012 , vital:43292 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-14
- Description: A song which is sung when the bridegroom is having his head and beard shaved. "We have shaved him by force. Let us rejoice together." Wedding song, with 1 Hayir bass drum, 1 Maras bass drum, played with hands, 2 Tasa bowl drums, laced, played with sticks and clapping (-12.02-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Allah, Allah
- Authors: Sheik Mohammed Bin Isa with Arab/Swahili boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Kenya , Songs, Swahili--Kenya , Songs, Swahili--Tanzania , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Zanzibar f-tz
- Language: Arabic
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179984 , vital:43289 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-12
- Description: Chant in praise of Allah. It is commonly believed by Mohammedans that by constantly repeating the name of the a dead Sheik you could see him in a vision. The capacity for "seeing" eidetic images is found all over the world. This kind of 'grunting' is found in many African tribes who have experienced the influence of Mohammedanism. It is also used among the Xhosa of the transkei although they are said to have left East Africa about 400 years ago and have no trace of that religion today. Praise of Allah.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Amama nkhawawone
- Authors: Eliya Chaya , 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/10962/185263 , vital:44359 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-05
- Description: This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. Simple song in typical vein by a village singer. 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
Amati akatambe tilawe
- 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
Ametela metela
- Authors: Kaphatikila Kanyingi , 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 Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186630 , vital:44519 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-19
- Description: The one stringed lute has a wooden bowl for a resonator with a sound hole on its side. The string is strained with a peg but final tuning is achieved by means of a straining string. It is bowed by a reed or bamboo bow with spittle and the fingering is achieved by gripping the string with the inside of the second segment of the second and fouth fingers. Self delecatative song with Karigo one stringed bowed Lute
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- Date Issued: 1950
Angoni sonu
- Authors: Maluba Mwale , Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chiundasi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184662 , vital:44246 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-11
- Description: The singer humorously demonstrates how the Ngoni distort his Tonga words with their foreugn dialect. A most interesting and humorous song with real observation of another dialect. African peasnts are frequently amused by dialect other than their own. Humorous song with Karigo one stringed lute
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- Date Issued: 1950
Anthu acilendo
- Authors: Lucy Nyamangwe , Tonga girls , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184540 , vital:44233 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-16
- Description: "Men who travel away from home make their women think about them with longing as they sleep in their 'pyjamas' alone." The word 'pyjama' has been adopted locally as 'Majamara'. In point of fact the women do not sleep in pyjamas at all they say, and it is used as a figure of speech. Chioda dance song for young women with drum rhythm beaten on a box
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- Date Issued: 1950
Atate wuchona kwa Rhodesia
- Authors: Joviani Nkhoma , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184857 , vital:44279 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-06
- Description: His Bango is unusual in that it has two tin resonators, one at each end. He played the strings with his left hand and beat a simple pulse on one of the resonators with his right hand and miming the action at the word "Ndito", 'truly'. For the second song he turned his Bango round and held it at right angels pointing away from him touching the strings with his left hand and striking them with his right. This is the normal way of holding the instrument. The performer looked like a little old elf. Lament with Bango zither with 7 metal strings
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- Date Issued: 1950
Awoli a legimenti
- Authors: Tumbuka women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185141 , vital:44332 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-11
- Description: "Soilders wives, take care of your clothes, you may have to dispose of some of them to buy yourselves food." A poignant little song which reflects the experience of war wives (1939-45). It has an attractive melody in the chorus. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
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- Date Issued: 1950
Azungu musinjilo
- Authors: Eliya Chaya , 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/10962/185276 , vital:44360 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-06
- Description: This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. Simple song in typical vein by a village singer. 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
Benu
- Authors: Maluba Mwale , Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chiundasi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184689 , vital:44249 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-13
- Description: "What am I going to tell them? Where am I going to complain? I am singing like a church organ." Benu is the name of a jumping action in the dance. This instrument was particulary well played and well made of its kind. The one stringed lute appears to come from the upper Nile and has not been found south of Nyasaland and the Zambesi valley. Chioda dance song for young women with Karigo one stringed lute
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- Date Issued: 1950
Bolo neno kari koongo
- Authors: Abisolom Abunda and Luo men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Kenya , Luo (Kenya and Tanzanian people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya South Nyanza Province f-ke
- Language: Luo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178819 , vital:42989 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR168-09
- Description: Bolo achieved an unenviable reputation for having neither shield nor ostrich feathers, and for being an univited guest at drinking parties. The playing drums by these Nilotic people is usually far simpler in rhythm than that of the Bantu. It appears to be essential in Luo society near Kisii to have your shield and your ostrich feathers with you when you attend a funeral. Bul dance song for men with Bunde 5 bass drums, laced and Gara leg bells (-12.55-).
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- Date Issued: 1950