Khanyisa Gura (Mother)
- Robert Golozera and three elderly women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Robert Golozera and three elderly women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomole, Ncheu f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155602 , vital:39898 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-11
- Description: A song sung on engagement, when the woman is first brought to the man's home. Robert Golozera is the uncle of the present chief Njolomole. The man who is supposed to be singing this song, complains that a certain man came 'behind his back' and slept with his wife while he himself was in the village. In some devious way the theme of the song appears to be intended to be taken as a warning to wantons. Marriage song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Robert Golozera and three elderly women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomole, Ncheu f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155602 , vital:39898 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-11
- Description: A song sung on engagement, when the woman is first brought to the man's home. Robert Golozera is the uncle of the present chief Njolomole. The man who is supposed to be singing this song, complains that a certain man came 'behind his back' and slept with his wife while he himself was in the village. In some devious way the theme of the song appears to be intended to be taken as a warning to wantons. Marriage song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Koboyi, koboyi yekoboyi (Peck, peck birds)
- Justine Shabangu, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Justine Shabangu , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Usutu forest, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152230 , vital:39236 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-07
- Description: Traditional Swati lullaby. The baby who was suckling from its mother while she sang, began to cry. Lullaby.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Justine Shabangu , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Usutu forest, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152230 , vital:39236 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-07
- Description: Traditional Swati lullaby. The baby who was suckling from its mother while she sang, began to cry. Lullaby.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Koepe kumowa uwepe (Cassava, sweet cassava)
- R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tumbuka (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chinteche District f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156207 , vital:39961 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-01
- Description: The song reflects a party of boys who are camping out beside the lake, sleeping out in the open air. They sing about their cassava which they are cooking and the lake fish which they have caught and prepared and handing it around, in fact a typical boy's party. Phuinu-uwepe is cassava which has been soaked in water for a long time. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tumbuka (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chinteche District f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156207 , vital:39961 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-01
- Description: The song reflects a party of boys who are camping out beside the lake, sleeping out in the open air. They sing about their cassava which they are cooking and the lake fish which they have caught and prepared and handing it around, in fact a typical boy's party. Phuinu-uwepe is cassava which has been soaked in water for a long time. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kolota ali kudwala (Kolota was sick)
- George Zongoloti and small girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: George Zongoloti and small girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155694 , vital:39906 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-03
- Description: The voice of the singer is strongly affected by the vibrations of the drum and its mirliton. He sings partly in Sena, partly Mang'anja. The singer, George Zongoloti is singing about his troubles. If he wants to go to Southern Rhodesia he has to come Chief Tingami for a pass. If he wants to fish, another pass. Even to make a canoe, he needs a pass. Now he is going back to Portuguese territory over the border because there you can do what you like without a single pass, just what you like! Topical song with Nthikwi drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: George Zongoloti and small girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155694 , vital:39906 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-03
- Description: The voice of the singer is strongly affected by the vibrations of the drum and its mirliton. He sings partly in Sena, partly Mang'anja. The singer, George Zongoloti is singing about his troubles. If he wants to go to Southern Rhodesia he has to come Chief Tingami for a pass. If he wants to fish, another pass. Even to make a canoe, he needs a pass. Now he is going back to Portuguese territory over the border because there you can do what you like without a single pass, just what you like! Topical song with Nthikwi drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kore kore
- Younf Tonga men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Younf Tonga men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179190 , vital:39860 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-04
- Description: The four drums used were 1) Mutumba, an open conical drum 37" tall, 11" membrane; 2) Jenje, an open cylindrical drum 14" tall on three legs with 10" head; 3) Miningo karipi-karipi, another conical open drum 25' tall with 9 and 4 quarter head; and a small closed drum, Usindi, 11" tall with 7 and a half head, on a three legged pedestal. The player of the two drums, Mutumba and Jenje, used his right heel to raise and lower the pitch of the Jenje as it lay on the ground beside the longer Mutumba, playing only with his hands. The other two players used sticks. The reeds were imported from the Salisbury district as no such reed grows in this district, they say, except in the Mazoe river nine miles away which was not so good as these. Four sets of end blown flutes (--11,325--). (1) 3 tied together. Katero, pitch 784, 744 and 680 vs (4 and a half" - 5") (2) 3 tied together. Shauriro, 680, 600, 552 vs (5 and a quarter , 6 and a quarter) (3) 2 tied together. Dendera, 504 and 448 vs (7", 7 and a half") (4) 2 tied together. Madobi, 416, 384 vs. (8 and a half, 8 and 3 quarters). Gororambe dance with end blown pipes, drums and rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Younf Tonga men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179190 , vital:39860 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-04
- Description: The four drums used were 1) Mutumba, an open conical drum 37" tall, 11" membrane; 2) Jenje, an open cylindrical drum 14" tall on three legs with 10" head; 3) Miningo karipi-karipi, another conical open drum 25' tall with 9 and 4 quarter head; and a small closed drum, Usindi, 11" tall with 7 and a half head, on a three legged pedestal. The player of the two drums, Mutumba and Jenje, used his right heel to raise and lower the pitch of the Jenje as it lay on the ground beside the longer Mutumba, playing only with his hands. The other two players used sticks. The reeds were imported from the Salisbury district as no such reed grows in this district, they say, except in the Mazoe river nine miles away which was not so good as these. Four sets of end blown flutes (--11,325--). (1) 3 tied together. Katero, pitch 784, 744 and 680 vs (4 and a half" - 5") (2) 3 tied together. Shauriro, 680, 600, 552 vs (5 and a quarter , 6 and a quarter) (3) 2 tied together. Dendera, 504 and 448 vs (7", 7 and a half") (4) 2 tied together. Madobi, 416, 384 vs. (8 and a half, 8 and 3 quarters). Gororambe dance with end blown pipes, drums and rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ku Mchisi kuli mtengo (At Mchisi there is a tree)
- Visanza girl's school choir, Hugh Tracey
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kucalangibone Eswatini (This is the first time I have seen Swaziland and beautiful things)
- Five young women and group of men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Five young women and group of men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153001 , vital:39371 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-08
- Description: Among the 'beautiful things', beautiful girls may also be included. Women's dance. Ukutsamba, with clapping and ankle rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Five young women and group of men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153001 , vital:39371 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-08
- Description: Among the 'beautiful things', beautiful girls may also be included. Women's dance. Ukutsamba, with clapping and ankle rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kudandaule (Don't worry)
- Mujodi Havuliwa, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mujodi Havuliwa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Lomwe (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mkanda f-mw
- Language: Lomwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160701 , vital:40502 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-16
- Description: The player is a well-known local entertainer. His Chakwana flute has two finger holes, closed at both ends and is side blown. "Do not worry. Ho-you have cried! Ho-Mother." Party song with Chakwana flute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Mujodi Havuliwa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Lomwe (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mkanda f-mw
- Language: Lomwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160701 , vital:40502 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-16
- Description: The player is a well-known local entertainer. His Chakwana flute has two finger holes, closed at both ends and is side blown. "Do not worry. Ho-you have cried! Ho-Mother." Party song with Chakwana flute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kuklala pafupi (If it was near)
- Nazaro Ngoma and Chewa men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nazaro Ngoma and Chewa men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Pemba, Salima, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153615 , vital:39487 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-10
- Description: "Let me drink and go, father, and make me a witness myself." The cheerful confusion of this drinking song is typical of the country, and the meaning of the words is obsecure. It is suggested that it refers to death and the fact that did they but know what happened after death they would accompany the dead. "If it was only close by where my father went I would go with him, indeed, I would go with him.". Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Nazaro Ngoma and Chewa men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Pemba, Salima, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153615 , vital:39487 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-10
- Description: "Let me drink and go, father, and make me a witness myself." The cheerful confusion of this drinking song is typical of the country, and the meaning of the words is obsecure. It is suggested that it refers to death and the fact that did they but know what happened after death they would accompany the dead. "If it was only close by where my father went I would go with him, indeed, I would go with him.". Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kuku lu-lu-ku (The crowing of the cock)
- Authors: Kachama , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155956 , vital:39935 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-16
- Description: "The crowing of the cock, father, the cock crow. The people here, father, the cock crow. They like to deceive, father, to affect something tomorrow. At someone's village, father. Walking is like dancing, the cock crow." No doubt to the singers of this drinking song, walking home would indeed be similar to dancing after an all night party which only broke up at cock crow. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Kachama , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155956 , vital:39935 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-16
- Description: "The crowing of the cock, father, the cock crow. The people here, father, the cock crow. They like to deceive, father, to affect something tomorrow. At someone's village, father. Walking is like dancing, the cock crow." No doubt to the singers of this drinking song, walking home would indeed be similar to dancing after an all night party which only broke up at cock crow. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kulera mwana (Looking after the baby)
- Authors: Chiko Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald District f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156130 , vital:39953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-13
- Description: "To look after the child while the mother goes to the river to fetch water." The father of this seven months old child took his baby in his arms and sang two lullabies, which he said his wife did not know how to sing. The child was as good as gold during the first, but cried all through the second. In spite of the words of the second song, the child was in fact his own. He called himself "Extra Zambezi" for some private reason. Lullaby.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Chiko Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald District f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156130 , vital:39953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-13
- Description: "To look after the child while the mother goes to the river to fetch water." The father of this seven months old child took his baby in his arms and sang two lullabies, which he said his wife did not know how to sing. The child was as good as gold during the first, but cried all through the second. In spite of the words of the second song, the child was in fact his own. He called himself "Extra Zambezi" for some private reason. Lullaby.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kulira kwa ng'omba (The song of the Ground Hornbill)
- Lonesi Chewame and Toni Hetara, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Lonesi Chewame and Toni Hetara , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Katinga f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158081 , vital:40146 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-08
- Description: This instrument had ten notes set on two banana stalks with sticks pierced into the stalks to divide the notes. The deep trumpeting of the ground hornbills in the early morning and evening is a well known feature of the low lying regions of the country. The reiterated low note represents the hornbill's call, "Ri-riti, ri-riti." Tune without words. Loose note xylophone.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Lonesi Chewame and Toni Hetara , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Katinga f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158081 , vital:40146 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-08
- Description: This instrument had ten notes set on two banana stalks with sticks pierced into the stalks to divide the notes. The deep trumpeting of the ground hornbills in the early morning and evening is a well known feature of the low lying regions of the country. The reiterated low note represents the hornbill's call, "Ri-riti, ri-riti." Tune without words. Loose note xylophone.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kumaji kumailo-mailo
- Boys at Dedza Secondary School, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Boys at Dedza Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- 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 Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184875 , vital:44281 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-08
- Description: There was a man who had a wife and he killed a certain woman who had a child and so his wife adopted the baby. It was the child who is supposed to be singing this song. The child was trying to remember her mother and was thinking how she could have been brought up by her own mother. The mother was killed because of a dispute over an old cow. She was carelessly looked by her stepmother. Ntano story song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Boys at Dedza Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- 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 Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184875 , vital:44281 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-08
- Description: There was a man who had a wife and he killed a certain woman who had a child and so his wife adopted the baby. It was the child who is supposed to be singing this song. The child was trying to remember her mother and was thinking how she could have been brought up by her own mother. The mother was killed because of a dispute over an old cow. She was carelessly looked by her stepmother. Ntano story song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kumenda Sanabwere (He has not come to the garden)
- Eight elderly women and two drummers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Eight elderly women and two drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155793 , vital:39917 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-14
- Description: Kwakwala stayed out in his garded an did not come back into the village as they went off to see what he was doing. He was dressed only in leaves and even ate leaves. When they got to his garden he was not there but at a place where an elephant had died and he was eating it. "He has not come to the garden, I thought I might go and see. He has not come. The elephant died at Magala, I wanted to see it, Kwakwala." The gourd rattles themselves give their name Chitsukulumwe to the dance which they accompany. Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles, drums and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Eight elderly women and two drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155793 , vital:39917 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-14
- Description: Kwakwala stayed out in his garded an did not come back into the village as they went off to see what he was doing. He was dressed only in leaves and even ate leaves. When they got to his garden he was not there but at a place where an elephant had died and he was eating it. "He has not come to the garden, I thought I might go and see. He has not come. The elephant died at Magala, I wanted to see it, Kwakwala." The gourd rattles themselves give their name Chitsukulumwe to the dance which they accompany. Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles, drums and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kumnapa
- Authors: Chief Pemba , 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's village, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153624 , vital:39488 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-11
- Description: "There are some people who boast that they are as important as the chief himself." This song is sung at Chindimba dance or beer party. Drinking song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Chief Pemba , 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's village, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153624 , vital:39488 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-11
- Description: "There are some people who boast that they are as important as the chief himself." This song is sung at Chindimba dance or beer party. Drinking song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kumtandizi (Mtandizi is not sorry)
- Eight Chewa women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Eight 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 Kotakota f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160048 , vital:40376 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-09
- Description: Mtandizi is one of the local labour recuriting organizations. "Mtandizi is not sorry for taking my husband away from work." Chintala dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Eight 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 Kotakota f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160048 , vital:40376 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-09
- Description: Mtandizi is one of the local labour recuriting organizations. "Mtandizi is not sorry for taking my husband away from work." Chintala dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kumtondo mwana amalira (At the pounding place the child was crying)
- P. G. Kalumbamoyo and 2 Chewa women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: P. G. Kalumbamoyo 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 Kota Kota, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153712 , vital:39502 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-19
- Description: This is really a woman's song but here sung by 3 men and is said to be typical of Chewa songs of this nature. "At the pounding place the child was crying. What is it crying for? What is the reason for my child to be beaten? What is it crying for? Let's go, let's go quickly to Jesus, go quickly. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: P. G. Kalumbamoyo 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 Kota Kota, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153712 , vital:39502 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-19
- Description: This is really a woman's song but here sung by 3 men and is said to be typical of Chewa songs of this nature. "At the pounding place the child was crying. What is it crying for? What is the reason for my child to be beaten? What is it crying for? Let's go, let's go quickly to Jesus, go quickly. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kuna mai wangu (Ay my mother's place)
- Shengwe Mashowa, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Shengwe Mashowa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Kariba, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154337 , vital:39649 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-09
- Description: Note the interesting change of the rhythm and the reversion to the original one used at the beginning of the song. This Ndau instrument has only two manuals, though most Mbira of this kind have three. Self delectative song with Mbira dza waNdau.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Shengwe Mashowa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Kariba, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154337 , vital:39649 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-09
- Description: Note the interesting change of the rhythm and the reversion to the original one used at the beginning of the song. This Ndau instrument has only two manuals, though most Mbira of this kind have three. Self delectative song with Mbira dza waNdau.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kundandali ndanda (The hunter)
- Authors: Justina Banda , 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/10962/159658 , vital:40322 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-12
- Description: There was once a man, a hunter called Kundandali who had a wife who tried to stop him leaving the house, saying, "Do not go, you have gunpowder and your gun on your shoulder." But the man was always going away and she always tried to stop him by begging him to put down his gun and his gunpowder and stay at home. The transcription of the vernacular words as written by the singers in both cases is rather uncertain and open to correction. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Justina Banda , 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/10962/159658 , vital:40322 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-12
- Description: There was once a man, a hunter called Kundandali who had a wife who tried to stop him leaving the house, saying, "Do not go, you have gunpowder and your gun on your shoulder." But the man was always going away and she always tried to stop him by begging him to put down his gun and his gunpowder and stay at home. The transcription of the vernacular words as written by the singers in both cases is rather uncertain and open to correction. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kupanda mlongo nkusauka (To be without a sister is to be without a home)
- Authors: Thawani Mwale , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mulvi, Salima District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153374 , vital:39443 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-08
- Description: In a matrilocal society a man without sisters would have no home belonging to his own family after his parents died. "To be without a sister is to have trouble. People who have sisters mock you." Initiation song with Bangwe board.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Thawani Mwale , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mulvi, Salima District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153374 , vital:39443 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-08
- Description: In a matrilocal society a man without sisters would have no home belonging to his own family after his parents died. "To be without a sister is to have trouble. People who have sisters mock you." Initiation song with Bangwe board.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958