(A)Kankukhu (The Chicken) (B) Kaposi Kapila (One, two) (C) Thu njeketu (I have walked with my sister)
- Authors: Young Chewa girls 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 Vidzumo, Kasungu, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153311 , vital:39434 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-01
- Description: These are traditional children's verses whose meaning is obsecure as, it is believed, they are composite collections of odd lines. But the words sound well and so have survied. a) "The small chicken is angry. You have refused me everything. You have made me cross. It is enough to make me leave you" says the small chicken. b) A counting jingle. c) "I have walked with my sister. I have forgotten my bow and arrows. Go fetch them for me. Why have I given them to someone else (The sister replies) "Shall I brew you some beer? (Reply) "I don't drink beer." Children's verses.
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- Date Issued: 1958
A Baiwelu (The story of the foolish young man 'Baiwelu')
- Authors: Four Chewa lads , 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/10962/153864 , vital:39531 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-09
- Description: There was once a man who wanted to get married and he found two sisters. He asked the elder on to marry him and she agreed. But when he came back the next day the elder sister was not at home and he asked the younger sister to marry him instead. She said, "What about my elder sister, and what would we do with her?" The elder sister heard about the proposal to the younger sister, she cooked food, put poison in it and gave it to the young man so he died. When they were taking his body to the grave they sang this song: "Baiwelu, you were killed by Berita (the name of the elder sister). But when they sang this song the dead Bauwelu heard it and became alive again." Story with song "Ntano" with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
A Lomwe tasiyane (Lomwe go away)
- 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/10962/153518 , vital:39461 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-23
- Description: "You Lomwe man, go away from me! Let another come and marry me especially a man who wears an elastic belt." The significance of the elsatic belt was not explained, except to say that only 'rich' men could afford elastic. The song is about a certain Lomwe man, her husband, who, she sings is very poor and dressed only in rags which fall to pieces if you try to sew them up on the sewing machine. "Let me go and marry another man who does not have so many patches on his trousers which break the sewing machine." During the item the sound of the winnowing of bran from the corn in a sieve can be heard. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
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- Date Issued: 1958
A m'bwalo (Unmarried boys)
- Authors: Small 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/10962/160061 , vital:40377 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-10
- Description: The boys go around at night in a group to tease the girls by standing outside their huts, pulling out their sleeping mats and generally making nuisances of themselves, so it was explained. "Unmarried boys "teka-teka" they break the mats. They mock and they do not get fat. Shaking the mats. We will report them to the elders, for breaking our mats." Girls song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
A Mama dyelawe (Mother what greed)
- Authors: 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 Vidzumo, Kasungu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153464 , vital:39455 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-17
- Description: "Oh, Mother, what greed! The husband with many wives, what greed! He says, close the door, Go to your elder sister. I have resented it, Mama, aye. That is him. The husband likes to eat by himself without his wives or family whom he sends off to eat with others while he feeds alone greedily. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
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- Date Issued: 1958
A Mdoka (Mdoka and the bee sting)
- Authors: R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tumbuka (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chinteche District f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156225 , vital:39964 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-03
- Description: Some young men came to see the chief who asked each in turn how their homes were. They said they were all alright except for Mdoka who had been stung by a bee on his lips. This gave rise to a song about his misfortune. The others also told the chief their stories including one about the fish they were catching and he sang a canoe song "Kanye Kanye madoda, Kanye kanye haiye." 'A' before a name is the local honorific equivalent of Mister. Story song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
A Namageli
- Authors: Faresi Gama and Nadiesi Namulinde , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Masula, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153482 , vital:39457 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-19
- Description: A Namageli, the woman, waas called to Chief Masura's court and while in the court she gave to her child. She had been asked to expalin how she had obtained her child in the absence of her husband in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. The dramatic appearance of the child at the moment of investigations was a cause of merriment to all concerned. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
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- Date Issued: 1958
A Nkundazuwa
- Authors: Four elderly 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 Dedza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160556 , vital:40474 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-03
- Description: The Konsolo dance is said to have been performed in the 1930's. It is suggested that Nkundazuwa was very fond of playing with the baby and used to wake it up for this purpose. Nkundazuwa is a village headman, living about 10 miles from the village of Kachere. A pleasant little sidelight on family life. "A Nkundazuwa pinches his baby and wakes it up so that it does not go to sleep." Konsolo women's dance with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
A sante mwe
- Authors: 4 Tumbuka boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Henga (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza, Mzimba District f-rh
- Language: Tumbuka/Henga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156329 , vital:39977 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-14
- Description: "A Sante-you! We have come to count up. Pumpkins, Cucumbers. We have come to count up." This is a song from a story about monkeys which used to come regularly to Sante's garden to eat his crops. After he died the monkeys mourned him as they would then have nothing left to eat. Like most African stories, this one appears to offer the obvious moral. Story song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
A speech
- Authors: Chief Bianoko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Bira (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombe f-cg
- Language: Bira
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168413 , vital:41579 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-08
- Description: The chief made this speech to all the assembled dancers, musicians and people who replied with enthusiasm in the traditional manner. Responses with ivory horn.
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- Date Issued: 1952
A) Kazima (Wait for me) B) I-e-e Gumbwa Gumbwa (How alike things are) C) Mee Mbuzi Mee (My Shephard) D) Amanu (Temper, temper)
- Authors: Young boys and 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 Vidzumo, Kasungu, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153320 , vital:39435 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-02
- Description: Sung by boys and girls in their separate sleeping huts before falling asleep. Verses such as these are the heritage of most African tribes. a) "Kazima, wait for me, please wait for me. There is some meat on the roof. (I have something to tell you). There is something on the path. There is meat on the roof. b) "I-i-i! How alike things are!. The people here are clever. They visit secretly, so... The meat has gone away. With whom shall I walk? The story is told, so... To whom shall I walk?" c) "My shephard is dead, he striped and fell. Oh dear, oh dear. The goat cries 'me-e-e!" d) "Where has the mother gone? Where is she? She has gone to Malambo. What has she gone for? She has gone to buy millet. What will she do with it? She will make beer. (etc.) Verses are made up as they go along. 4 Children's verses.
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- Date Issued: 1958
A) Lululu, B) Leza wa mwana
- Authors: Lusiya Nabanda (a grandmother) , 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, Liliongwe, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153329 , vital:39436 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-03
- Description: Old traditional lullabies, by Chewa women of this district. In them the continually harassed mother mentions her many and endless duties which demand her attention as well as the child which needs her constant care. b) "Luluya, sleeping child, do not cry. See your motehr is at work. See the porridge pot is boiling. Don't go on crying, go to sleep. A child's god is a scrap of food. Its mother is the stirring stick. Should I nurse a child on account of the stirring stick? Its father is its first finger. I get only a share from the kitchen spoon." Two lullabies.
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- Date Issued: 1958
A-a-ye nanga omwale (Aaye! what about Omwale)
- Authors: 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158936 , vital:40242 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-12
- Description: Dance tunes with the minimum of melodic inspiration to evoke the dance. The bass drum was beaten by two women, one on each side of the drum opposite each other. The song consists mostly of references to the names of local persons. Such as OMwale, Ojere, OPhiri etc., each with the tonorific prefix 'O'. The equivalent of the English "Mister". Dance tune with bass drum.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Aba Mukama
- Authors: Ernest Kibuka with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bibanja / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172289 , vital:42184 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-08
- Description: The laced drum is called Ngoma, the general name of any drum. It only receives a special name when it is part of a set of drums such as the Enkoito set. David Rugomola is said by his men to be the best chief in the whole Bibanja area and the people like him very much. He is a tall man with finely drawn features common to many aristocratic Hima people who rule over several lesser tribes in this part of East Africa. Praise song, with conical laced drum, beaten with sticks, and clapping (-12.03-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Aba Seveni abada
- Authors: Zakaria Kasasa, 'Endongo za Baganda'. , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170475 , vital:41926 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-10
- Description: "The 'Aba Seveni', the soilders of the 7th King's African Rifles, are back from the war, but they have no money left. The ones who stayed are better off than the soilders." A story with a familiar aftermath theme. Topical song, with Endongo bowl lyre with 8 strings, Ndingidi one string bowed lute, and one Ntenga conical drum, laced, single.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Abafazi pandle (Women should go outside the hut)
- Authors: Group of Gcaleka men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Xhosa (African people) , Folk music , Africa South Africa Idutywa f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150955 , vital:39021 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR062-04
- Description: Drinking parties in this region are usually held inside the huts as there is plenty of wind over the open downs, especially near the sea. The song calls on the women to leave the hut to the men, as they pass the beer around and sing their drinking songs. Drinking song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Abagenyi baizire
- Authors: Stephen Kaholya and Nyoro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169747 , vital:41795 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-16
- Description: "The visitors have arrived", a welcome to the visitors at a party. The Engwara horns are built up of sections of gourds bound together with plantain string and re-inforced longitudinally by lathes of bamboo. The are side blown and have a hole at the small end so as to produce two notes each. They vary in size from about 12 inches to approximately 36 inches. Engwara N'orunyege dance song for men, with Engwara side blown horns, Ebinyege rattles and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Abagungu
- Authors: Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169914 , vital:41838 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-17
- Description: The Bagungu people are fishermen and live near the eastern shore of Lake Albert. They are renowned for their cheerful rhythmic dancing with leg rattles. The water lizard skin membranes of their drums make for high quality drumming and clear finger work. The 'Legevans' or iguana are found near the lake shore, they say. Orunyege dance song for men and women with Ebinyege leg rattles and Goblet drum long stem pegged open.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Abakaikula kitulayeza twena tucome Mlekule
- Authors: Siluvesitere Ilaliya , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nyalubungo f-tz
- Language: Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172689 , vital:42271 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-04
- Description: "When we harvest our crops we shall all enjoy dancing the Mlekule." Mlekule is a dance perfromed for the chief at his village. The microphone started beneath the instrument and was moved above when he started singing in order to show the difference of tone between the upper and lower surfaces of the resonator. It is interesting to note that unlike the Likembe Mbira further south, the resonator of this instrument is broader at the top than at the bottom, i.e. the bridge end is the broader. The scale was:- 332, 308, 280, 252, 228, 204, 184, 166 vs. Self delecatative tune, with Marimbe Likembe, box resonated, 18 notes.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Abakazi okuzandhda
- Authors: Waibi and Soga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bugabula County f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171292 , vital:42042 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR140-14
- Description: "Women like playing very much. Oh! yes the women do like playing. Women should not be trusted. For if you give one a present, she gives it to her lover." This song was much appreciated by the audience which was sitting all around the players. Humorous song, with Budongo Likembe and Nsaasi tin rattle.
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- Date Issued: 1952