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Namfikilankhu

- Taines Chirwa, Nancy Luhana, Tumbuka girls, Hugh Tracey

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

Ndalame ndi satana

- Beti Kamanga, Hugh Tracey

  • 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
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ndaluza ine

- Maluba Mwale, Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

Ndamutemba Nyanja

- Ganizani Nyirenda, Hugh Tracey

Ndarama zao kusowa

- Benson Phiri, Chewa men, Tracey, Hugh

Ndilandile kalata kwa Masula

- Falesi Phiri, Chewa women and girls, Tracey, Hugh

Ndipeko kayuni karimbula

- Nezala Shonga, Hugh Tracey

  • 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
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nidapalamula I

- Mami Nakwenda, Belifa Nyabanda, Two Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

Nidapalamula II

- Mami Nakwenda, Belifa Nyabanda, Two Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

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
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  • 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
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nthumba na lume

- Lucy Nyamangwe, Tonga girls, Hugh Tracey

Okoma sakwatana

- Ganizani Nyirenda, Hugh Tracey

Oo! madoda!

- Falesi Phiri, Chewa women and girls, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Falesi Phiri , Chewa women and girls , Tracey, Hugh
  • 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/10962/187298 , vital:44598 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR192-09
  • Description: "Men, rejoice and honour the flag of our King George!" This is the kind of African dance tune in which the qauntity of noise is more important than the quality of its production. The style of singing appears to be influenced by the songs usually taught in schools and cannot be said to be wholly indigenous in form. The women first sing and then circle around to the sound of the drums. They shake to and fro side to side, their fronts counter balancing their sterns in opposite motion. The comparative simplicity of the music and drumming indicates the subtle influence of school (foreign) music teaching. Kasodo dance song for women and girls with Barrel drum, double heade, laced, and a tin (-12.16-) and whistles (-11.515-)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Paja mundikonda mundilembele kalata

- Ganizani Nyirenda, Hugh Tracey

Paryi vilipo visika alendo amwe

- Alfuledi Nyoni, Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Pasi pali kugona nkhulina

- Yafeti Zimba, Jafeti Zimba, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Yafeti Zimba , Jafeti Zimba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kazimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185222 , vital:44341 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-20
  • Description: The drinking songs of this area are largely composed of shouting and chanting without intelligable words. "Good people are lying dead under the ground! My wife boil the water for our beer." The two voices cause a celeste between them similar to the sound of over-modulation. Drinking song with clapping
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Pendeka

- Lucy Nyamangwe, Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

Roda ndirinde

- Nezala Shongs, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nezala Shongs , 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/10962/185095 , vital:44327 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-06
  • Description: "Roda wait for me, I have been following you a long way. Please wait, I want to talk yo you." The singer is Ngoni buy belongs to one of the small Ngoni groups now living amongst the Tumbuka. Love song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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