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Onani ndenge yokwela masula (Look at the aeroplane)

Opela utumiza (Though you give me cloth)

Owaha o Lomwe (When you come from Lomwe)

Ozani muone kuwala (Come and see the glory)

  • Authors: Samkani Mponela , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159051 , vital:40254 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-23
  • Description: This style of dancing is most popular in the Dowa district, where most large villages, they say, have their own groups of enthusiasts. "Come and see the glory of these boys". Not the European accent on the ultimate syllable. "muone kuwala", instead of the normal "mu'one kuw'ala". This may well spring from the fact that the Malipenga dance and its dance songs originated with military drilling as performed by the Kings African Rifles and the Nyasaland police. Mujanda dance with Malipenga singing horns.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Panari mtsikana wina (The girl and the beads)

  • Authors: Boys of Masula village , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158544 , vital:40205 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-09
  • Description: An equivalent story to one in Southern Rhodesia. There were three girls who went to the river to get water. They had big strings of beads but one forgot her beads down by the river and when she got home she told her brothers and asked them to take her back to the river to look for them. They refused, so she went alone. She found a hyena who had taken her beads and put them inside a drum and then when she arrived he caught her and put her inside the drum also. He then went to the village to play the drum. The people of the village heard her singing inside the drum. They cooked food and gave it to the hyena who, as soon as he had eaten the food began to play the drum. He went to another village and did the same. The girl inside the drum got very hot but eventually her brothers saved her by cutting open the drum and the hyena diasppeared. A were-wolf story. Nthano story.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Patse mtondo wanga (Give me my mortar)

Pita uko (Together)

Pita uko (Together)

Sanje

Sikusinja

  • Authors: J. W. Gwengwe and Chewa boys , 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/10962/160197 , vital:40418 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-04
  • Description: Sikusinja was a rich man who was killed by his brother Gwenembe. A bird saw him do it and flew to the village to tell everyone what had happened. Through his singing the people understood what had happened. Gwenembe was a poor man who coveted his brothers belongings, and that is why he killed him. The bird when singing said, "Don't wonder, I saw Gwenembe killing Sikusinja and all the things he took." Eventually Gwenembe was taken to Kachere for Judgment and he was put to death. It is a story with a moral. 'Be sure your sins will find you out!' The bird witness is a constant African Image. "Sikusinja was a rich man. He was killed by his brother Gwenembe. The bird saw himdo it." The accompaniment of a guitar in this kind od story is unsual and a recent innovation only. Nthano story with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Songa mbiriwiri (Cover yourself)

Tamanga simbi

  • Authors: Boys of Chief Mwasi's village , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159585 , vital:40314 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-04
  • Description: "We have handcuffed them, we of Linga Boma. Although you are proud today, you will see!" The dancers go in groupd called Boma and challenge each other in the dance and in singing with with the Malipenga horns and boast about their performances. The Malipenga were all made out of gourds with mirlton membranes over the small end. The sound quality of the bass singers was good owing to their use of the gourds of adequate size and shape. Their song is a familiar type of boasting to be found among dance teams in most parts of Africa familiar to us. Muganda dance (part 3) with tweleve Malipenga singing horns and drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Tikaone mwana (Let us see the child)

  • 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.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Tilira ife (We cry for those who left Gwero)

  • Authors: Boys of Chief Mwasi's village , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159574 , vital:40313 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-03
  • Description: "We cry for the boys who have left Gwero (the boma of Kasungu). Such as Kaziyambe Zimba, Mbelere Phiri who went to Lusaka. Stars shone on them, teaching them cleanliness. They are pround in Cape Town." The Muganda dance with Malipenga horns is usually performed in three parts, the first and third parts being with horns and the second, of which this is an example, without horns. Muganda dance (part 2) with brass drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Timange mphwanga pano (Let us settle here properly)

Tisimbi wa sauka

  • Authors: Alfred Phiri , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Macanga f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158481 , vital:40196 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-02
  • Description: The Bangwe Zither was resonated with a small gourd through which it was pierced. It was plucked in this item. Each string was tuned by means of a small independent wedge. The strings of the Bangwe were of wire, and about 15 inches long. The Bangwe itself being 21 and hald inches long 5 inches broad. Self delectative song with Bangwe resonated Zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Tototo ine chambila (No, no, not for me)

Tsobola wambotolo (Bottled chillies)

Waselo waselo (Jumping, jumping)

  • Authors: Chewa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156954 , vital:40072 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-16
  • Description: A husband complained that his wife was unfaithful to him and worried about his son by this woman, as she would have to leave him if she did not mend her ways. The translation given for Waselo as 'jumping' may indeed be literally incorrect, but it is intended to convey promiscuity in going about with several men. Dance song for Chintala women dance.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wenda m'manja manja (Go in the hands)

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