List of Titles

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/10962/159565 , vital:40312 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-02
Description: "The headquaters of our dance team are here at Gwero and we are going to sing the song Sodom", was the introduction by the young leader. "There was a fire in Sodom." This has been a popular dance since 1927 or thereabouts. The dancers alternately sing openly and sing through their Lipenga horns. How the subject of Sodom and its destruction came to be chosen as a dance motif is a mystery. Maganda dance (Part 1) with 12 Malipenga singing horns.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

Showing items 1 - 3 of 3