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Authors: Young Chewa 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 Dedza f-mw
Language: Nyanja/Chewa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160537 , vital:40471 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-01
Description: Girls invite other girls of different villages to come and dance with them at the time of harvesting when they sing and dance the kasodo together. Luwanika, the name of the Northern Rhodesian Lozi paramount Chief is invoked, as a famous name but for no other specific reason, except that locally in Dedza, Luwanika has a ficitious reputation for making magic medicines according to these simple and distant people...a kind of wizard of oz - 'whiz of a wizzard!' "Luwanika, to dance you must have strong legs." Kasodo girls dance, with clapping.
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Date Issued: 1958

Authors: Young Chewa 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/10962/160115 , vital:40386 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-16
Description: The song refers to the visit, in 1953, to the Southern province of a battalion of Northern Rhodesian soildiers (Wemba, wrongly called Nyakyusa by the local people, they now know) which was sent to Nyasaland to restore order after rioting had broken out. "To Njolomole came the battalion of the Nyakyusa I am sorry, members." Cintala dance for girls with bass drums.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

Authors: Young Chewa 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/10962/160107 , vital:40384 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-15
Description: The word 'Jaivi' has been picked up by the youngsters of this country as a new word for 'dancing' although the dance itself is not remotely connected in this case with Jive dancing. "You boy standing there, don't answer me now because I am busy dancing 'Jaivi'." Cintala dance for girls with bass drums.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

Authors: Young Chewa 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 Dedza f-mw
Language: Nyanja/Chewa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160547 , vital:40473 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-02
Description: This dance is usually accompanied by drums and is done at parties, weddings and other happy occasions. The drums were not available at the time of recording. "Let us go and see a child at Kachere. The child who likes to move about. You young maid, go to sleep nicely, if you don't I will beat you. White people are clever because they have made aeroplanes." Kasodo girls dance, with clapping.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

Authors: Young Chewa 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 Dedza f-mw
Language: Nyanja/Chewa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160643 , vital:40488 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-09
Description: "Yelina, what are those charms around your waist? You have risked the life of your babee and may loose him." A young woman has been seen weaving a string of wooden beads as a charm around her waist. So the other women sing, "what has she been doing to need such a charm? The local belief is that if either the husband or wife commits adultery while the child is being born or during the time the woman is pregnant, there will be a risk of the child being still born. The charm worn in this case was taken as a sign that the mother-to-be had misbehaved herself and was trying to guard against the consequences by wearing a string of wooden beads around her waist." Dance for M'Jili with clapping.
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Date Issued: 1958

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