A-a-ye nanga omwale (Aaye! what about Omwale)
- Women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158936 , vital:40242 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-12
- Description: Dance tunes with the minimum of melodic inspiration to evoke the dance. The bass drum was beaten by two women, one on each side of the drum opposite each other. The song consists mostly of references to the names of local persons. Such as OMwale, Ojere, OPhiri etc., each with the tonorific prefix 'O'. The equivalent of the English "Mister". Dance tune with bass drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158936 , vital:40242 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-12
- Description: Dance tunes with the minimum of melodic inspiration to evoke the dance. The bass drum was beaten by two women, one on each side of the drum opposite each other. The song consists mostly of references to the names of local persons. Such as OMwale, Ojere, OPhiri etc., each with the tonorific prefix 'O'. The equivalent of the English "Mister". Dance tune with bass drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Angozo
- Authors: Small 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/10962/160124 , vital:40388 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-17
- Description: Who Angoso might have been and what he had done could not be explained, but the song was no doubt founded on fact, and the singing of this song would ensure publicity. "Amgozo (man's name) you are indiscreet. You have not kept out affair private.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Small 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/10962/160124 , vital:40388 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-17
- Description: Who Angoso might have been and what he had done could not be explained, but the song was no doubt founded on fact, and the singing of this song would ensure publicity. "Amgozo (man's name) you are indiscreet. You have not kept out affair private.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Keke, keke garuyo 2 (Yap, yap, the dogs barks)
- Four elderly Chewa women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Four elderly 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 Dedza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160596 , vital:40479 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-05
- Description: The Konsolo dance is said to have been performed in the 1930's. An adaptation of the previous item accompanied by a guitar. Konsolo women's dance with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Four elderly 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 Dedza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160596 , vital:40479 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-05
- Description: The Konsolo dance is said to have been performed in the 1930's. An adaptation of the previous item accompanied by a guitar. Konsolo women's dance with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
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