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Yelina

- Young Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

  • 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

Yai lero (Not today)

- Adija Nyankhomo and G. Coffee, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Adija Nyankhomo and G. Coffee , 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/10962/153913 , vital:39537 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-12
  • Description: There was once a husband and wife and the and the man went out to drink beer and come back late at night. He left his young child at home, sleeping in bed. Now a wife with a very young child must not ne touched. But when he came back he started to touch her until the child woke up. So in the morning the wife went and told her friends about the shocking behaviour of her husband. Then they all came over to her home, stood outside and sang this song, mocking the husband for forgetting his good manners. "Natikhorowa n'ndiwo Yai yai yai, lelo, Yai lero ai mwanileka ndikale, Mwana akadagona, tsopano wanka ndipu m kuti taleka, Yai lero Yai lero ai." "Sweet potatoe leaves! Forbidden fruit at some of the time. You left me a long time a ago when the Child was still asleep and now he is awake and you say, "let me" No, no, no, not today." Story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wezulu walila

- Boys of Dedza Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Wenda m'manja manja (Go in the hands)

- Elefala Jeremiah Mbewe, Hugh Tracey

Wasepuka na mbuzi

- Wareni Mkwandawiri, Henga and Nyanja grils of Blantyre Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Waselo waselo (Jumping, jumping)

- Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

  • 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

Wapita lero kalindabwinja

- Homwale, Hodede (Performer), Tracey, Huges (Recordist)

Wammuna munabwela kale (Husband, you came long ago)

- Gezani Mwale, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Gezani Mwale , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Bimphi, Dowa, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154028 , vital:39555 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-08
  • Description: "My husband, you came long ago. This year give me a child. Father, I want a child. But a red cloth you give to your mother another to your father. The spotted one you give to me." During the rainy season children are forbidden by their mothers to wear red cloth for fear the lightening might strike them. Red cloth, therefore has a bad connotation, which may be reflrcted in this song. A cloth with patterns, flowers or spots is admired and may therefore be lucky. The preoccupation of African people for offspring is clearly seen in this lyric. Self delectative song with Sansi (Mbira).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wakuzi (Who spoiled the relish?)

- J. W. Gwengwe and boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: J. W. Gwengwe 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 Kachere, Lilongwe, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153676 , vital:39497 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-15
  • Description: "Who has told you to squeeze the caterpillars? Who has told you to prepare the frog? Who has told you to squeeze the chameleon? Who has told you to squeeze the grasshopper? Who has told you to squeeze the snake? Meaning, you have spoiled the relish provided by caterpillars, etc. by squeezing them out instead of leaving them. Of the ones mentioned, the caterpillars, grasshoppers and snakes, but the chameleon definitely inedible. The song which was originally a Nyau dance song is now used as a drinking song. It appears that the creatures mentioned in the song are best cooked in their natural state without being dressed in any way. Drinking song with clapping and struck iron (a hoe) -12.16-.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wakhala wekha (When you are alone)

- Four Lomwe song, Hugh Tracey

Wacepe Sifuliya (Not enough left in the pot)

- Ezra Chimpanda and 2 Chewa men, Hugh Tracey

Vinyatsi Mjila (Grass on the road)

- Mugizi Mware, Hugh Tracey

Uku ndapita ine

- Ganizani Nyirenda, Hugh Tracey

Tyingabenga (The Giant)

- Five Nyasa men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Five Nyasa men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Likoma f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160799 , vital:40546 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-05
  • Description: The drum was played with a stick in the left hand tapping on the side of the drum alternately with the head. The right hand kept up the rythm in the usual way. During this lively performnace the bottle player shattered his bottle into fragments, continuing to beat the neck of the beat which remained in his hand until that too disintegrated under the blows of the six inch nail. At the end of the first item the player dashed off to a nearby hut and produced the next best substitute, a new hoe blade. This recording was made by Nyasa workers at a Citrus Estate near Nelspruit, Eastern Transvaal. Party dance with double headed drum, concertina and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Tsobola wambotolo (Bottled chillies)

- Five Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

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

- Women, Hugh Tracey

Toleka ntamwako (Let me drink)

- Nazaro Ngoma and Chewa men, Hugh Tracey

Tiziyendelana

- Ganizani Nyirenda, Hugh Tracey

Tiye tuluka mwanawe (Come, come out, child)

- Gezani Mwale, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Gezani Mwale , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Bimphi, Dowa, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154037 , vital:39556 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-09
  • Description: "Come, come out you child. Come, come outside, that the people may see you. Don't you hear now? Why don't you come? If you were a bird you could have flown away. The year when my father died I did not wail. What must I do? What is it child? The fish eagle wailed, a bird of the heavens. He died at Cilanga. Come out child, there are people oustide." It is suggested that this song refers to a girl being shy after her initiation or 'coming out' into public life as a young woman. Self delectative song with Sansi (Mbira).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Tiye Mlongo (Let us go sister)

- Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

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