Mwana winu wancenekela
- Authors: Japhet Zimba , 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/10962/185360 , vital:44369 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-13
- Description: "Your child has stolen my sixpence for paying my tax." This district contains people of mixed blood, Ngoni and Tumbuka. They call themselves Ngoni but speak Tumbuka. Self delectative song with Kalimba (9 notes)
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Japhet Zimba , 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/10962/185360 , vital:44369 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-13
- Description: "Your child has stolen my sixpence for paying my tax." This district contains people of mixed blood, Ngoni and Tumbuka. They call themselves Ngoni but speak Tumbuka. Self delectative song with Kalimba (9 notes)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Mwele mwele
- Tumbuka women and girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Tumbuka women and girls , 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/10962/185064 , vital:44323 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-03
- Description: The initiation dance appears to be the more enjoyable event and not all a solemn occassion. Girls initiation song (uzamba dance) with 2 Mpanje goblet drums and clapping (-12.03-)
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Tumbuka women and girls , 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/10962/185064 , vital:44323 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-03
- Description: The initiation dance appears to be the more enjoyable event and not all a solemn occassion. Girls initiation song (uzamba dance) with 2 Mpanje goblet drums and clapping (-12.03-)
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- Date Issued: 1950
Naftali Ouko
- Authors: Daudi Otuoma , 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/10962/178810 , vital:42988 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR168-08
- Description: Naftali Ouko is a postive wizard at mending bicycles. Everyone goes to him for repairs. Even the chief himself and the clerk send their bicycles to Naftali. Praise song (for a bicycle mender) with Thum 8 string lyre and Gara leg bells (-10.55-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Daudi Otuoma , 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/10962/178810 , vital:42988 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR168-08
- Description: Naftali Ouko is a postive wizard at mending bicycles. Everyone goes to him for repairs. Even the chief himself and the clerk send their bicycles to Naftali. Praise song (for a bicycle mender) with Thum 8 string lyre and Gara leg bells (-10.55-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nagunda waka ine
- Tumbuka women and men in background, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Tumbuka women and men in background , 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/10962/185132 , vital:44331 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-10
- Description: The Tumbuka songs sung by these people of mixed Ngoni and descent are quite distinctive and unlike the usual Ngoni songs. Each one is sung in a separate and clearly defined mode. "All this pounding for nothing! What else can I do to please my man?" Note the constant rise in pitch with each verse, apparently caused by the sharpening of the last note in each stanza in keeping with the mode. Pounding song with mortar and 2 pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Tumbuka women and men in background , 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/10962/185132 , vital:44331 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-10
- Description: The Tumbuka songs sung by these people of mixed Ngoni and descent are quite distinctive and unlike the usual Ngoni songs. Each one is sung in a separate and clearly defined mode. "All this pounding for nothing! What else can I do to please my man?" Note the constant rise in pitch with each verse, apparently caused by the sharpening of the last note in each stanza in keeping with the mode. Pounding song with mortar and 2 pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nakidema changu kake juma
- Simai Bini Ali with Swahili men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Simai Bini Ali with Swahili men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Zanzibar f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179902 , vital:43247 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-03
- Description: This short song is used for waking up the people for their last meal-the second of the night during the fast of Ramadhan. The singers go around singing and playing the drum at about 1-2 a.m. It is a picturesque Swahili/Mohammedan custom. The to membranes of the bass drum are tuned to different notes. Kigoma cha daku songs, with 2 tin rattles, 1 double-sided bass drum.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Simai Bini Ali with Swahili men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Zanzibar f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179902 , vital:43247 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-03
- Description: This short song is used for waking up the people for their last meal-the second of the night during the fast of Ramadhan. The singers go around singing and playing the drum at about 1-2 a.m. It is a picturesque Swahili/Mohammedan custom. The to membranes of the bass drum are tuned to different notes. Kigoma cha daku songs, with 2 tin rattles, 1 double-sided bass drum.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Namfikilankhu
- Taines Chirwa, Nancy Luhana, Tumbuka girls, Hugh Tracey
- 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/10962/185186 , vital:44337 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-16
- Description: "When I get there who will look after me, as they do not know me there." The girls were clearly out of breath with the effort of both pounding and singing. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- 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/10962/185186 , vital:44337 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-16
- Description: "When I get there who will look after me, as they do not know me there." The girls were clearly out of breath with the effort of both pounding and singing. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ncembele imbi kamphundu
- Maluba Mwale, Tonga men, Hugh Tracey
- 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/10962/184653 , vital:44245 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-10
- Description: The slight pauses in the song are the points where the bow of bamboo needed a little more spittle, necessitating its removal from the string. Most simple string lutes of this kind are bowed with a sisal bow, but occassionaly, as in this case, with a short lenght of bamboo, a sliver taken from the outside of the stalk. Instead of natural rezin the players use spittle. Humorous song with Karigo one stringed lute
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- Date Issued: 1950
- 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/10962/184653 , vital:44245 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-10
- Description: The slight pauses in the song are the points where the bow of bamboo needed a little more spittle, necessitating its removal from the string. Most simple string lutes of this kind are bowed with a sisal bow, but occassionaly, as in this case, with a short lenght of bamboo, a sliver taken from the outside of the stalk. Instead of natural rezin the players use spittle. Humorous song with Karigo one stringed lute
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ndalame ndi satana
- Authors: Beti Kamanga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184615 , vital:44241 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-06
- Description: "Young men go to Johannesburg to look for money, Money is the devil! Even Jesus was sold for thirty shillings." Money, even on the beautiful shores of Lake Nyasa, is still 'the root of all evil.' 'Chuma' or 'ndalama' is money. 'Chuma chatimara' - money spoils us. Topical song, with Bangwe Raft Zither, 7 strings
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Beti Kamanga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184615 , vital:44241 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-06
- Description: "Young men go to Johannesburg to look for money, Money is the devil! Even Jesus was sold for thirty shillings." Money, even on the beautiful shores of Lake Nyasa, is still 'the root of all evil.' 'Chuma' or 'ndalama' is money. 'Chuma chatimara' - money spoils us. Topical song, with Bangwe Raft Zither, 7 strings
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ndaluza ine
- Maluba Mwale, Tonga men, Hugh Tracey
- 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/10962/184671 , vital:44247 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-12
- Description: "Talking behind your back is not good, this is my wife's song, let us sing it well. The old men sing it at drinking parties." The simple tune played on the Karigo follows the tone pattern of the words of the refrain. Drinking song with Karigo one stringed lute, bowed
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- 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/10962/184671 , vital:44247 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-12
- Description: "Talking behind your back is not good, this is my wife's song, let us sing it well. The old men sing it at drinking parties." The simple tune played on the Karigo follows the tone pattern of the words of the refrain. Drinking song with Karigo one stringed lute, bowed
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ndamutemba Nyanja
- Ganizani Nyirenda, Hugh Tracey
- 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/10962/186565 , vital:44512 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-13
- Description: "I will counteract the diviners charms," Self delectative song with 10 note Lalimba (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- 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/10962/186565 , vital:44512 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-13
- Description: "I will counteract the diviners charms," Self delectative song with 10 note Lalimba (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ndipeko kayuni karimbula
- Authors: Nezala Shonga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mukotsama f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185326 , vital:44365 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-09
- Description: The singer remarks upon the cleverness of the whitemen in fighting with planes and guns. "Zekaria my friend, they even fly by night." At the end of the song he calls out "I have played very well! It is finished." Humorous aong with Bango board zither
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Nezala Shonga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mukotsama f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185326 , vital:44365 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-09
- Description: The singer remarks upon the cleverness of the whitemen in fighting with planes and guns. "Zekaria my friend, they even fly by night." At the end of the song he calls out "I have played very well! It is finished." Humorous aong with Bango board zither
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ngubani o'sibizela elamgeni
- Ngoni men, Ngoni women, Nsenga women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Ngoni men , Ngoni women , 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 Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184502 , vital:44229 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-12
- Description: An old regimental song from the days of Zongendaba now used at parties or when the men have killed a lion or leopard, at the dance before the chief to celebrate the event. This song and many others like it demonstrate the Zulu or Ngoni strain in the northern Nyasaland culture since there has been no direct connection with Zukuland for well over 100 years. Mgubo dance song, after hunting leopard or lion
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Ngoni men , Ngoni women , 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 Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184502 , vital:44229 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-12
- Description: An old regimental song from the days of Zongendaba now used at parties or when the men have killed a lion or leopard, at the dance before the chief to celebrate the event. This song and many others like it demonstrate the Zulu or Ngoni strain in the northern Nyasaland culture since there has been no direct connection with Zukuland for well over 100 years. Mgubo dance song, after hunting leopard or lion
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nguluwe
- Irene Mukunga with Yao girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Irene Mukunga with Yao girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chiradzuru f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154802 , vital:39777 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-15
- Description: A wild pig was eating fish, this was strange, so they decided to chase the pig. The girls in turn circle round each other. The higher and lower notes of the clapping are made by clapping both along and across the hands, Likwata dance song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Irene Mukunga with Yao girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chiradzuru f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154802 , vital:39777 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-15
- Description: A wild pig was eating fish, this was strange, so they decided to chase the pig. The girls in turn circle round each other. The higher and lower notes of the clapping are made by clapping both along and across the hands, Likwata dance song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nheura
- Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180123 , vital:43316 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-01
- Description: A song for entertaining the chief. The title of this song has persisted for generations, each no doubt setting its own topical words to the traditional air. This in turn has no doubt suffered many a change in the course of time but is still Nheura for all that. The yodelling by Shona musicians in Southern Rhodesia is a distictive characteristic of their music and is similar to the yodelling of the Mambuti pygmies of North East Congo and the Turi forest. Chabarwa is a Njanja from the Charter district where about 1750 A.D. a certain Portuguese mulatto trader married the chief's daughter and took the Mitupo or clan name of Sinyoro (Senhor) which has been handed down to his male descendants since that date. Leave your husband and let us dance. What I have said is very little. But not enough to leave your husband behind in the house. The dream of Hobe's wife is true, she dreamed about a wagon. It has come, you men. Tall men are lucky, even when they kneel down they are still big. You can do it too. You women, I will start. The children of today are wocked. They only learn to be 'wasters'. We will marry the children of the Zinjanja. There are women who wear skin aprons. But the cost of dresses spoil the country. Who have you come with? Four will come in and the fifth I will go with. Topical song sung for the entertainment of Chiefs, with Njari dza Manjanja (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180123 , vital:43316 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-01
- Description: A song for entertaining the chief. The title of this song has persisted for generations, each no doubt setting its own topical words to the traditional air. This in turn has no doubt suffered many a change in the course of time but is still Nheura for all that. The yodelling by Shona musicians in Southern Rhodesia is a distictive characteristic of their music and is similar to the yodelling of the Mambuti pygmies of North East Congo and the Turi forest. Chabarwa is a Njanja from the Charter district where about 1750 A.D. a certain Portuguese mulatto trader married the chief's daughter and took the Mitupo or clan name of Sinyoro (Senhor) which has been handed down to his male descendants since that date. Leave your husband and let us dance. What I have said is very little. But not enough to leave your husband behind in the house. The dream of Hobe's wife is true, she dreamed about a wagon. It has come, you men. Tall men are lucky, even when they kneel down they are still big. You can do it too. You women, I will start. The children of today are wocked. They only learn to be 'wasters'. We will marry the children of the Zinjanja. There are women who wear skin aprons. But the cost of dresses spoil the country. Who have you come with? Four will come in and the fifth I will go with. Topical song sung for the entertainment of Chiefs, with Njari dza Manjanja (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nidapalamula I
- Mami Nakwenda, Belifa Nyabanda, Two Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mami Nakwenda , Belifa Nyabanda , Two Chewa girls , 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186424 , vital:44497 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-02
- Description: "I do not like this never ending pounding." Simple pounding song in which the one girl echoes the other as they pound in the same mortar with alternate strokes. This echoing style of singing is also used for their rain songs and at first hearing leaves an impression of confusion rather than intent. Pounding song, with mortar and two pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Mami Nakwenda , Belifa Nyabanda , Two Chewa girls , 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186424 , vital:44497 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-02
- Description: "I do not like this never ending pounding." Simple pounding song in which the one girl echoes the other as they pound in the same mortar with alternate strokes. This echoing style of singing is also used for their rain songs and at first hearing leaves an impression of confusion rather than intent. Pounding song, with mortar and two pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nidapalamula II
- Mami Nakwenda, Belifa Nyabanda, Two Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mami Nakwenda , Belifa Nyabanda , Two Chewa girls , 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186435 , vital:44498 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-03
- Description: Complaining of continous pounding. Simple pounding ounding song which help to lighten the day's hard work. The mortar was loaded with maize and a little water and as the pounding proceeded the sharp sound of the full grain becomes duller as the corn is broken into small pieces and eventually into meal. Pounding song, with mortar and two pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Mami Nakwenda , Belifa Nyabanda , Two Chewa girls , 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186435 , vital:44498 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-03
- Description: Complaining of continous pounding. Simple pounding ounding song which help to lighten the day's hard work. The mortar was loaded with maize and a little water and as the pounding proceeded the sharp sound of the full grain becomes duller as the corn is broken into small pieces and eventually into meal. Pounding song, with mortar and two pestles
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nimepata mpenzi, mtoto mdogo, mzuri simwachi (I have found my love, a beautiful girl)
- Chipukizi Rumba, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Chipukizi Rumba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwanza f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179604 , vital:43123 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-06
- Description: This tune, an adaptation of a South American type of rumba, is perhaps the most popular of all town dance songs at the present time (1950) being sung in all the tons of Tanganyika and on the island of Zanzibar. The young men playing this version of the song did not know the words and sanf 'ia-la-la' instead. Swahili Rumbas with 2 Banjos, 1 Mandoline, 2 bass drums, 1 conical drum, laced, 2 kazoos, 2 whistles and a flute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Chipukizi Rumba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Mwanza f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179604 , vital:43123 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-06
- Description: This tune, an adaptation of a South American type of rumba, is perhaps the most popular of all town dance songs at the present time (1950) being sung in all the tons of Tanganyika and on the island of Zanzibar. The young men playing this version of the song did not know the words and sanf 'ia-la-la' instead. Swahili Rumbas with 2 Banjos, 1 Mandoline, 2 bass drums, 1 conical drum, laced, 2 kazoos, 2 whistles and a flute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nitunde upi, kula nitundao una nana
- Mwana Bibi with Swahili women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mwana Bibi with Swahili women , 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: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180039 , vital:43297 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-17
- Description: The double reed Arab aboe accompanies an essentially African style of song. These Zumali oboes are bought from the Arab sailors who come down the coast every year in their dhows, sailing before the monsoon winds in each direction between the African east coast ports and the Persian Gulf. The calls and answers with which the women start their song contains a local variations of the English "Hip-hip-hurrah!" "hipo-hipo hure." Vugo dance song for women, with horn rattles, horns played with sticks, 2 cylindrical drums, double sided, laced, played with hands, 5 holed Zumali oboe.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Mwana Bibi with Swahili women , 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: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180039 , vital:43297 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-17
- Description: The double reed Arab aboe accompanies an essentially African style of song. These Zumali oboes are bought from the Arab sailors who come down the coast every year in their dhows, sailing before the monsoon winds in each direction between the African east coast ports and the Persian Gulf. The calls and answers with which the women start their song contains a local variations of the English "Hip-hip-hurrah!" "hipo-hipo hure." Vugo dance song for women, with horn rattles, horns played with sticks, 2 cylindrical drums, double sided, laced, played with hands, 5 holed Zumali oboe.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nkhawa na dada
- Joel Jere, Ngoni men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Joel Jere , Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Nkata Bay f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185047 , vital:44321 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-01
- Description: The game sung here by men is usually played by children with two logs on the ground about 3 feet apart with another log between them like the letter H. The child lies along this third log and is bumped by the the others onto the first two at head and foot. This kind of singing game, they say has been done for twenty years or more. Singing game for children, with sticks beaten on the ground
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Joel Jere , Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Nkata Bay f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185047 , vital:44321 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-01
- Description: The game sung here by men is usually played by children with two logs on the ground about 3 feet apart with another log between them like the letter H. The child lies along this third log and is bumped by the the others onto the first two at head and foot. This kind of singing game, they say has been done for twenty years or more. Singing game for children, with sticks beaten on the ground
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nkhopa lero
- Widisoni Mazuku, Tumbuka men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Widisoni Mazuku , Tumbuka men and 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/10962/185543 , vital:44396 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-18
- Description: This is an exhibition dance done by one or more dancers for the entertainment of the crowd. The drummers are men, friends of the solo dancer and the women of the village sing his dance song for him. His dance consists of a series of rhythmic shakes particularly from his waist down. He wears African made iron bells below the knee and above the ankle. Vimbuza dance song with 2 Goblet Mpanje drums and Mangwanda bells
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Widisoni Mazuku , Tumbuka men and 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/10962/185543 , vital:44396 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-18
- Description: This is an exhibition dance done by one or more dancers for the entertainment of the crowd. The drummers are men, friends of the solo dancer and the women of the village sing his dance song for him. His dance consists of a series of rhythmic shakes particularly from his waist down. He wears African made iron bells below the knee and above the ankle. Vimbuza dance song with 2 Goblet Mpanje drums and Mangwanda bells
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950