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Mai dale tawa tumbila (My darling went away)

- Agnes Maknwalo, Hugh Tracey

Mai wa Zondiwa (Mother of Zondiwa)

- Group of 5 Karanga men from Gutu District, Hugh Tracey

Makarwe afelanji (Why do the rats die)

- Children of Salima Government school, Hugh Tracey

Make yaya (Mother of Yaya)

- Denis Yolambo, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Denis Yolambo , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153797 , vital:39523 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-04
  • Description: "Mother of Yaya, I cry about what is in my heart, it hurts me, Mother, mother. Mother I cry here, mother of boy. That I should be strong. I am crying here, but there are things in my heart, Mother, mother, mother. You may be proud, you may be proud, but you have only a string around your waist." A rich woman wears a belt of beads, not just a string only round her waist. Topical song with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Malilima (The story of the woman and the lightning eggs)

- Constable B. Kunje and Nyanja men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Constable B. Kunje and Nyanja men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179037 , vital:39887 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-04
  • Description: There was once a man who came from Fort Johnson and married here in Zomba and after a while his wife became pregnant. So she told her husband, "I do not want any food, I will only eat the eggs of the lightning". Her husband was lucky enough to find the eggs of the lightning and she used to have them fresh every day. She would even find them herself, break the eggs, drink them up and bury the shells. Afterwards she would tell her husband to sit on the ground where she had buried the eggs. When he found them broken she would blame him saying she had absolutely nothing to eat all day. "You had better go get some more", she would say. In the end the man was struck by lightning as he was collecting eggs, and the lightning started singing, "I am coming". So it came and struck the man dead. Her brother fetched his body and brought it to the wife saying "noe because of your asking the impossible you have killed your husband." Then he killed his sister because he was so angry with her. Story song (Nthano).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mama akandipanga (Mother used to tell me)

- M. S. Ngomwa and six Mang'anja boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: M. S. Ngomwa and six Mang'anja boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Port Herald f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158141 , vital:40153 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-11
  • Description: This, it was explained, was a morality song to be sung as a warning to girls not to marry poor men. There appeared to be no association between the words of the lyric and the occassion, the party after the burial, which could be established. The singers did not know why it was sung on such occassions. "Mother used to tell me that I should get married to a man with brick house and a lamp which is used for light instead of fire. Now I am married to a poor man who has patches on his clothes. patches! patches on his clothes!" A funeral dance sung after burual with tins (used as drums).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mamsadi msadi evamakguva (A fair woman is our woman)

- Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers, Hugh Tracey

Mande

- Group of Karanga men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Karanga men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154631 , vital:39756 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-16
  • Description: One of the Mashawi 9souls) dances. The Mujukwa are considered in the local mythology to represent the entities who act as go-betweens, or media, between man and the High-God: Especially in connection with their pleading for rain. Some would call them 'Angels'. The dances and songs of the Majukwa are therefore intended to concentrate attention upon aspect of social necessity. Rain, without which the people would perish. With the opening up of communications by white people the effects of draught and subsequent famine have been lessened and therefore the cult or belief in Majukwa and their functions has been proportianately diminished. A Majukwa dance with 3 Dumba drums, 1 Nyeri flute, leg rattles and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mangani mikeka, muzika kwanu (You take your clothes and go away)

- Alfred Phiri, Hugh Tracey

Mangondo azipita (Mangondo must go)

- Livinia Jere and 2 Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Manja ndi kapolo (Hands are slaves)

- Lonesi Chewane and Joni Hetara, Hugh Tracey

Mantentemezana (Herd boys' rain song)

- Group of small boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of small boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152184 , vital:39231 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-02
  • Description: This song is a well known and recited by herd boys on seeing small clouds appear in the sky calling the clouds to collect and drop their rain for the cattle they are herding. Alternately for the clouds to spread out and allow the sun to shine again. Herd boy's rain song
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Marume ma shora Mambo(The man blames the Chief)

- Saini Murira, Chingaipa Madzikuminga and Zhogi Muzengedza, Hugh Tracey

Mashdosholwane

- Mfihlelwa Magagula, Hugh Tracey

Matete (Matete, the greedy man)

- Constable B. Kunje and Nyanja men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Constable B. Kunje and Nyanja men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178995 , vital:39886 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-03
  • Description: There was once a man Matete who had a wife who died and he had a daughter called Kunyeka. He came from Mlanje to marry another woman in Zomba. She had a big garden and her husband used to eat a lot, far more than most men. When coming back from the farm the father Matete used to be called by his daughter to come and have food. He asked, "who calls me" and she would reply "It is mother who is calling. At lenght people began to remark that her husband was eating far too much and advised the wife to get rid of him. So she took a bottle, broke it and put it in the food. The daughter called the father from the farm for his meal as usual, he ate it and died. Story song (Nthano).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Maye Maye Inesizema (Maye maye this is really hard work)

- Justina Shabangu and group of Swazi girls and 4 men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Justina Shabangu and group of Swazi girls and 4 men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Usutu Forest, Mbabane f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152564 , vital:39310 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR070-07
  • Description: This group of singers are planters from block A. 5, Usutu Forest. This is said to be one of the largest man made forests in the world. About 90,000 acres. "Maye, maye, inesizema sizema sendeni. Hamba juba bokhuluta pambili." O-ho everyone, my husband is sick. Fly on little dove, you will be plucked further on. Hoeing song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mayeyelele mina kazula (I am lonely - I am an orphan)

- Josefa Malindisa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Josefa Malindisa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Bremersdorp f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152786 , vital:39342 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-07
  • Description: "The Zionists laughed at me because my mother died." There are many such laments as this composed by African men and women who help to resolve their personal tragedies by singing about them in public. Personal lament with concertina.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Medina ne Alawo (The Chewa and the Yao)

- J. W. Gwemgwe with Chewa lads, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: J. W. Gwemgwe with Chewa lads , 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/10962/160260 , vital:40428 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-11
  • Description: There were two men who were friends, one was a Yao and the other was a Chewa. The Chewa invited the Yao to his house and he found them at lunch where they had pork to eat. "We do not eat pork" the Yao said "so when you invite me you should not offer me pork". Now the Yao invited the Chewa, and to his surprise the Chewa found the Yao eating pork and dancing. The Yao told the Chewa to listen to the kind of music the Yao themselves sang in order to divert his friend's attention from the mean. But the Chewa said to the Yao, "You cannot deceive us any longer. We now know you do take this kind of meat, so do not refuse my pork in the future." The Yao came under the direct influence of the Arab traders and most of them are Mohammedans, hence the taboo on eating pork. Nthano story with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Melo (Name of a man)

- Young girls and 4 drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young girls and 4 drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chipwembwe, Fort Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155811 , vital:39919 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-01
  • Description: The drums are carved out of Mutondo wood (one of Sokosa wood) cut locally on the plain. The maker Bauleni made No. 5 as long ago as 1930. The others are more recent. The membranes are of ox hide. The dance is well performed by the young girls who stand in a row or semicircle near the drums and each comes out in turn to do a solo dance, a clever rhythmic routine ending with a sharp pelvic jerk. As one girl finishes another immediately takes her place. The drums are all played with curved wooden beaters except the 2 bass drums numbers 8 and 9 which are played with hands. Some of the girls held clappers and one a tin rattle. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Meri, Meri (Mary Mary)

- Adija Nyamkhomo and Chewa women and children, Hugh Tracey

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