Bemu iuvoni memba
- Authors: Mbuluwundi, Ruben Tankadi , Group of 5 Tumbuka men , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-07
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/238064 , vital:50582 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT474-L95 , Research no. L2N9
- Description: Unaccompanied humorous song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-07
Kayuni
- Authors: Mbuluwundi, Ruben Tankadi , Group of 5 Tumbuka men , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-07
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/237993 , vital:50575 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT474-L95 , Research no. L2N8
- Description: Unaccompanied humorous song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-07
Anyanori, anyanori paramwa pasa tiki
- Authors: Nachilwa, Elmas , Group of Tumbuka women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-06
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mulfulira f-za
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/237567 , vital:50529 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT470-L91 , Research no. L2M4
- Description: A threshing song about the gift of a small coin accompanied by raft rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-06
Chitima wajumbo
- Authors: Nachilwa, Elmas , Group of Tumbuka women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-06
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mulfulira f-za
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/237562 , vital:50528 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT469-L90 , Research no. L2M3
- Description: A threshing song about the chief taking a train accompanied by raft rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-06
Palileni wanjiwa
- Authors: Chilwa, Pikifoti , Group of Tonga men , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-06
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mulfulira f-za
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/237589 , vital:50531 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT470-L91 , Research no. L2M6
- Description: A topical song about telling the people.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-06
Pikifoti Chilwa
- Authors: Chilwa, Pikifoti , Group of Tonga men , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-06
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mulfulira f-za
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/237584 , vital:50530 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT470-L91 , Research no. L2M5
- Description: A topical song about himself .
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-06
Mwariwa toca ku Henga
- Authors: Nachilwa, Elmas , Group of Tumbuka/Henga women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-05
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mulfulira f-za
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/236881 , vital:50459 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT469-L90 , Research no. L2M1
- Description: A pounding song accompanied by raft rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-05
Anyanori, anyanori paramwa pasa tiki
- Authors: Composer not specified , Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka/Henga women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134100 , vital:37072 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-10
- Description: The gift of a small coin such as a threepenny bit indicates, they expalined, an affection for the young man asking for it from the girl.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Bemu tuvoni memba
- Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134064 , vital:37067 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-06
- Description: "When you drink beer, it sparkles and tingles against your tonsils! When the beer is ready you must send a boy round to tell your friends."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Cheyu chamunganda
- Authors: Composer not specified , Group of Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Wedding music , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134109 , vital:37073 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-11
- Description: The song is used as a walking song, when on the way to some festivity like a wedding, as well as a hunting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Chigwinini chikuko mana nawo (A man with 2 wives has no wife)
- Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140179 , vital:37844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-02
- Description: If a man has 2 wives they are jealous of each other; when he goes to see the one, she says: "Go away to your other wife, he goes to see the one, she says: " I a, not your wife-go and see the other one." So in the end he has no wife and doesn't know where to go. This composition is not unlike a Russian folk song. Humorous song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Chikulamayembe Gondwe
- Authors: Alick Mpusi Mutali and Tumbuka/Henga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Livingstone f-za
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140247 , vital:37854 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-09
- Description: Chief Chikulamayembe Gondwe is the Paramount Chief of the Henga people in northern Nyasaland- as a great man by men of his tribe. Praise song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Chitima wajumbo
- Authors: Composer not specified , Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134090 , vital:37071 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-09
- Description: It appears from what the singers explained, that this Chief Jumbo took the train one day in Nyasaland and the occasion being so unusal for the Chief in whose district no railway lines exist, that it merited a song in his honour.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Cin'goma ca kubaruka
- Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134028 , vital:37061 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-02
- Description: The song is about a man who brought his drum to a party. Unfortunately someone put his foot through it, and thereafter it produced some very strange noises which the leader imitates in the course of the song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kamudyanga
- Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134037 , vital:37063 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-03
- Description: A man asked his wife for some monkey nuts and she refused to give them to him. One day he hid himself and found the pot where she kept them and ate them all. Whe she discovered this, she reproached him and said: "Why didn't you ask me, I would have given them to you." "Ah, said the man, but when I asked you the first time you refused."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kanakazi Kayaya mbebeweta pamulomo (The unfaithful wife talks too much)
- Authors: Smart Chigwamba and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140198 , vital:37847 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-04
- Description: The unfaithful wife deliberately annoys her husband by nagging him, until he leaves her. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kayuni
- Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134019 , vital:37060 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-01
- Description: The song is about the long-tailed widow-bird who found it impossible to manage his long tail when he tried to settle on a perch. The leader makes a series of strange sounds representing the great difficulty the small bird is having in trying to balance itself. The bird in question is the long-tailed paradise bird
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kupura kupika na kuldya nakundewa
- Authors: Composer not specified , Elmas Nachilwa and group of Tumbuka/Henga women (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Livingstonia f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134082 , vital:37070 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-08
- Description: This is one of the songs sung when a girl is being instructed in her domestic and wifely duties by one of the elder women of the village.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mbaya mwana wane bamutya cimbwe (Mbaya, my child, is called a hyena)
- Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140216 , vital:37849 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-06
- Description: A man who was working away from home on the Copper Mines, had a girl sent to him to marry from his own village. But when she arrived she was so ugly he said: "Marry you, never! You look like a hyena!" So the girl went back and told her mother who rushed out of the house shouting to her husband in great hanger: "My child Mbaya has been called a hyena!" From what the Welfare officers say, it appears that this situation is a common experience on the Copperbelt where girls are frequently sent by their parents to get themselves married to their absent young men on the mines, with the same painful rebuff if not acceptable. Humorous song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mungate tamara
- Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134046 , vital:37064 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-04
- Description: The song is supposed to be sung by the fore-fathers of the tribe, who say: "We still know how to drink!" In the song, the leader was Smart Chigwamba.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957