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Kupanda mlongo nkusauka (To be without a sister is to be without a home)

- Thawani Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Liti (Liti and the graveyard)

- Madura Rabecu and G. Coffee, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Madura Rabecu and G. Coffee , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota District, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153893 , vital:39534 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-11
  • Description: An interesting melody. There was once a man who said to his wife Liti late one night: "Liti, let me go and I will show you my garden." But it was dark and she could see nothing until they got to the place and there she saw not crops but many old people ghosts and wizards. Ah, she said, you do not show me your crops but your grave yard among the tall trees. So they returned home and the next morning she said she could no longer stay with a husband who did that kid of thing to her. She wanted a true marriage. A strange story. "Liti, nkhakuronga ciwera nkhakurongo ciwera Liti angunena ku Masamo. Liti, madoda ngakhurukana madoda ngachulukana, Him, "Liti, ket me go and show you my garden." Her, when he said his "garden" he really meant "the grave yard." "Liti, the old men are gathered together there, at the grave yard." Story song
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  • Date Issued: 1958

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

Mangondo azipita (Mangondo must go)

- Livinia Jere and 2 Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Meri, Meri (Mary Mary)

- Adija Nyamkhomo and Chewa women and children, Hugh Tracey

Mkhwangwa yatena (The axe has cut him)

- Adija Nyankhomo and G. Coffee, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Adija Nyankhomo and G. Coffee , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota District, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153933 , vital:39538 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-13
  • Description: A husband and wife went to hoe in their garden and the man had his axe with him. When they were there he started to play a game with her, forgetting he had his axe over his shoulder which fell off and cut him. So the woman when she got home quickly began to say that her husband had been cut by his axe in order to avoid people thinking that they had been playing in the garden. So she sang this song:- A! e! a! e!e! Nkhwangwa yatera Nkhwangwangwa letena mwendo." "A-eee. The axe has cut my husband, my husband, the axe has cut him in the leg." Story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mkwaze (Can I give cattle)

- Gezani Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Mmali nkono boy (I want a son)

- Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 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 Chadza, Lilongwe District, Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153500 , vital:39459 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-21
  • Description: 'I want to have a son. He (the husband) is still at the other house, he has not yet come. What shall I do?" Note that uneven beat of the pestles to match the rhythm, one beat being slightly faster and out of the usual strict tempo. The singer indicates that she wants a baby but that the husband is impotent and unable to giver her one. What is more he is not slepping in her hut but in the other wife's hut. So what can she do to get her child?. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mpaka (The Cat)

- Eddington Kwanjana and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Eddington Kwanjana and boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mzengera, Lilongwe, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153962 , vital:39548 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-01
  • Description: The response after each phrase of the story is "Tirirose". S. "Mai tsegulire, mai tsegulire, CH. Kayendayenda eyaye kayenda. S. Ndatsala ndeka, ndiribe mai, CH Kayendayenda eyaye kayenda." A cat whose mother was named Damati lived in a forest where there were hyenas who wanted to eat the cats, and the cats did their best to protect themselves. The hyena (fai) started a dance and planned to eat whoever came to see ot. The cat had rattles on his legs and his mother taught him a song to sing whenever he got into trouble. The cat went to the hyena's dance and escaped into the mortar when the hyena wanted to eat him. Cat got at hyena's eyes, scratched them out and escaped. Story and song (Nthanu).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Munthu anamanga nyumba yaikuru (A man built a large house)

- Flori Kalindang'oma and Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Flori Kalindang'oma and Chewa girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kalindang'oma, Dowa, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154075 , vital:39560 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-13
  • Description: A man built a big house, cut the necessary grass and poles and left them in the bush. A bird came and sang a song to make the grass grow again anf the trees sprout again. This happened twice. But the third time the man hid nearby, discovered the bird, killed it, took it home and cooked it. The off and when it was cut up in pieces to be eaten. 1. "Who cut the grass here? In rows, in rows. Grow, grass grow! Sprout trees, sprout!" 2. Pluck me carefully" sings the bird. "Lilili, myself the bird. Cut me up carefully" sings the bird. "Lilili, myself the bird." Story song (Nthanu)
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Najele (The beads around your neck, Najele)

- Ezra Chimpanda and 2 Chewa men, Hugh Tracey

Nangule pepe (I am sorry 'Nangule'! (a kind of bird)

- Duncan Nkhalamba and Chewa boys, Hugh Tracey

Nangwe

- Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

Ngoza (The disobedient girl)

- Elias Mengezi and Chewa boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Elias Mengezi and Chewa boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kongwa, Dowa, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153980 , vital:39550 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-03
  • Description: A man had a disobedient child named Ngonza, who would not do the work her father or mother gave her to do. The mother put her into a mortar and pounded her into powder and then threw her away. She was carried away to the lake by the rain. Ngoza's younger sister went to the lake side together with other children. All the others picked up their pots but Ngoza's sister could not and sang her song, crying for Ngoza to come and help her. Ngoza, having been made whole again by a crocodile to be his wife, came out of the water to help her sister. The village people then came to catch Ngoza and took her home, but the crocodile dug a hole from the water underground all the way to the village and took Ngoza back again. Story song (Nthanu).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nguwo yanga (My cloth)

- Young Chewa boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Nkamuona nkadamphwetheka (If I see him I will hurt him)

- E. J. Mbewe and I. K. Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Ntakhala ndi mlongo (If only I had a sister)

- E. J. Mbewe and I. K. Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Nyamhoni oweha (Name of a woman)

- Petros Samalaboma, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Petros Samalaboma , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mzuzu, Northern Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154017 , vital:39554 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-07
  • Description: The meaning of the song is not clear. The singer claims that some of the words of the song were in Tumbuka/Henga. The Kubu bow is a simple tall bow (56 inches) held vertically and strained near the lower end, the main segment of the string being 40 inches long. It has a gourd resonator. The player struck the long segment only, stopping it with the point of his first finger and with his thumb. Self delectative song with musical bow.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nzenzere, linde, linde (Wait, grasshopper, I want to take my bow)

- Gezani Mwale, Hugh Tracey

O-dressi chivara madona (O the dress of the girl)

- Alfred Phiri, Hugh Tracey

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