Chikangaude (The spider)
- Daliya Kafaniza, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158003 , vital:40138 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-07
- Description: A long time ago I went to the garden and there came a certain spider which turned into a man who told my children to give him some clothes to wear. The man told the children he had been sent by their mother. So he took the clothes and disappeared. "Children are children, they take their clothes from their clothes bag and give they away to anyone." Story song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158003 , vital:40138 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-07
- Description: A long time ago I went to the garden and there came a certain spider which turned into a man who told my children to give him some clothes to wear. The man told the children he had been sent by their mother. So he took the clothes and disappeared. "Children are children, they take their clothes from their clothes bag and give they away to anyone." Story song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Chimangala mangala (The cannibal)
- Daliya Kafaniza and Mang'anja women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza and Mang'anja women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158160 , vital:40156 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-13
- Description: Here is one of the rare references to cannibalism in Southern Africa where it was not frequently practised. "Let us go, Achimangala Mangala, let us go. There was a man who asked a woman to marry him. This man used to eat before going to the garden to hoe, and so when he went hoeing he always came back late. A boy used to come and bring him food in the garden and he would ask the boy "how many plates of food have you bought?" This happened frequently and last of all he ate not only the food but the plates and the boy found nothing, and the man had vanished also as he was a cannibal. Story and song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza and Mang'anja women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158160 , vital:40156 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-13
- Description: Here is one of the rare references to cannibalism in Southern Africa where it was not frequently practised. "Let us go, Achimangala Mangala, let us go. There was a man who asked a woman to marry him. This man used to eat before going to the garden to hoe, and so when he went hoeing he always came back late. A boy used to come and bring him food in the garden and he would ask the boy "how many plates of food have you bought?" This happened frequently and last of all he ate not only the food but the plates and the boy found nothing, and the man had vanished also as he was a cannibal. Story and song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Amai, Amai, ndikunene eleli (Mother, mother, I will say much to you)
- Daliya Kafaniza and Manganja women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza and Manganja women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155802 , vital:39918 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-15
- Description: "My mother, mother, I will say much to you. You have taken my child. I myself am only small. You have taken my child. No, you have taken my child, as I say." Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza and Manganja women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155802 , vital:39918 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-15
- Description: "My mother, mother, I will say much to you. You have taken my child. I myself am only small. You have taken my child. No, you have taken my child, as I say." Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Mulongo wangaya (The brother of mine)
- Daliya Kafaniza and several women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza and several women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Port Herald f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158150 , vital:40155 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-12
- Description: "That brother of mine. I was with him yesterday. Now he has been taken (died). Do not be afraid of the darkness. I have no one to talk to. I am tired and hold my leg." The Chitsukuhumwe rattles are the long gourds with maize seeds inside. Song at feast after burial. With rattles and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza and several women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Port Herald f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158150 , vital:40155 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-12
- Description: "That brother of mine. I was with him yesterday. Now he has been taken (died). Do not be afraid of the darkness. I have no one to talk to. I am tired and hold my leg." The Chitsukuhumwe rattles are the long gourds with maize seeds inside. Song at feast after burial. With rattles and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Milisi
- Dance with nine tuned drums, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Dance with nine tuned drums , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157924 , vital:40114 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-04
- Description: The drums are weighted with castor oil bean paste. It is removed from the drum head immediately after playing, or, they say, it would rot the membrane. The tuning of the drums has to be done afresh each time. "Misili killed a buck, so the people were pleased to have the meat." Likhuba dance with eight tuned drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Dance with nine tuned drums , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157924 , vital:40114 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-04
- Description: The drums are weighted with castor oil bean paste. It is removed from the drum head immediately after playing, or, they say, it would rot the membrane. The tuning of the drums has to be done afresh each time. "Misili killed a buck, so the people were pleased to have the meat." Likhuba dance with eight tuned drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Likhuba (Drum Rhythm)
- Dance with nine tuned drums, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Dance with nine tuned drums , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157919 , vital:40113 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-03
- Description: The drums are weighted with castor oil bean paste. It is removed from the drum head immediately after playing, or, they say, it would rot the membrane. The tuning of the drums has to be done afresh each time. "Misili killed a buck, so the people were pleased to have the meat." Likhuba dance with eight tuned drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Dance with nine tuned drums , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157919 , vital:40113 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-03
- Description: The drums are weighted with castor oil bean paste. It is removed from the drum head immediately after playing, or, they say, it would rot the membrane. The tuning of the drums has to be done afresh each time. "Misili killed a buck, so the people were pleased to have the meat." Likhuba dance with eight tuned drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Chumba (Barren)
- Authors: Denis Yolambo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153806 , vital:39524 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-05
- Description: "You have taken a barren woman and I am very tired of her barren, barren, but today I am tired of her. My friend will have children. Mother, mother, but today mother I want a child but today, I Davis, I am protesting, I came to this land (of his in-laws) with the money of my brother, brother, brother but today! You have just come for trouble, brother, but today I make it clear to you. Topical song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Denis Yolambo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153806 , vital:39524 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-05
- Description: "You have taken a barren woman and I am very tired of her barren, barren, but today I am tired of her. My friend will have children. Mother, mother, but today mother I want a child but today, I Davis, I am protesting, I came to this land (of his in-laws) with the money of my brother, brother, brother but today! You have just come for trouble, brother, but today I make it clear to you. Topical song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Make yaya (Mother of Yaya)
- Authors: Denis Yolambo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153797 , vital:39523 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-04
- Description: "Mother of Yaya, I cry about what is in my heart, it hurts me, Mother, mother. Mother I cry here, mother of boy. That I should be strong. I am crying here, but there are things in my heart, Mother, mother, mother. You may be proud, you may be proud, but you have only a string around your waist." A rich woman wears a belt of beads, not just a string only round her waist. Topical song with guitar.
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Denis Yolambo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153797 , vital:39523 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-04
- Description: "Mother of Yaya, I cry about what is in my heart, it hurts me, Mother, mother. Mother I cry here, mother of boy. That I should be strong. I am crying here, but there are things in my heart, Mother, mother, mother. You may be proud, you may be proud, but you have only a string around your waist." A rich woman wears a belt of beads, not just a string only round her waist. Topical song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Nchuwa (The four row game)
- Donald Mpunda Banda and two Chewa men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Donald Mpunda Banda and two Chewa men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159980 , vital:40363 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-01
- Description: "Even although you have given me Cinthele cloth, I will still run away to Baloni." Nchuwa is the game with four rows of holes or cups in the ground played with seeds or pebbles, and the sketch is meant to represent an exciting game between friends. It is a game of very ancient orign and is found widely throughout Eastern Africa under a number of different names and rules. It is said to have been imported into Africa by Arabs or people further East as long ago as the 10th century. Sketch-impromptu.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Donald Mpunda Banda and two Chewa men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159980 , vital:40363 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-01
- Description: "Even although you have given me Cinthele cloth, I will still run away to Baloni." Nchuwa is the game with four rows of holes or cups in the ground played with seeds or pebbles, and the sketch is meant to represent an exciting game between friends. It is a game of very ancient orign and is found widely throughout Eastern Africa under a number of different names and rules. It is said to have been imported into Africa by Arabs or people further East as long ago as the 10th century. Sketch-impromptu.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Nangule pepe (I am sorry 'Nangule'! (a kind of bird)
- Duncan Nkhalamba and Chewa boys, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Duncan Nkhalamba and Chewa 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 Karonga, Salima, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154066 , vital:39559 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-12
- Description: " Sorry, Nangule, sorry Nangule, your eggs are being taken." A hyena came and stole some of the eggs so the other bird called Nangule who killed the hyena and threw him into a ditch. An elephant also stole some eggs and did in the same way. All the eggs were finished, but Nangule paid the other bird its wages in spite of the loss of all its eggs. Nangule (the bird) hired another to take care of its eggs. Story song (Nthanu).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Duncan Nkhalamba and Chewa 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 Karonga, Salima, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154066 , vital:39559 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-12
- Description: " Sorry, Nangule, sorry Nangule, your eggs are being taken." A hyena came and stole some of the eggs so the other bird called Nangule who killed the hyena and threw him into a ditch. An elephant also stole some eggs and did in the same way. All the eggs were finished, but Nangule paid the other bird its wages in spite of the loss of all its eggs. Nangule (the bird) hired another to take care of its eggs. Story song (Nthanu).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Sesa (To sweep)
- Dzowa and 3 young Mang'anja boys, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Dzowa and 3 young Mang'anja boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald District f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155996 , vital:39941 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-01
- Description: The tunings of these xylophones was not very accurate and the two instruments were not quite in unison but enough to give a good approximation of their tuning method. The overall size of the xylophone was 64 inches. The open mirlitons were made of cigarette papers. The central octave was 252, 232, 210, 190, 174, 158, 144, 126. The performers were three young boys between the ages of seven and tweleve years. The dance which accompanied this music is a simple ring dance with little action beyond a shuffle. Ulimba dance for young boys and girls with 2 xylophones.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Dzowa and 3 young Mang'anja boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald District f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155996 , vital:39941 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-01
- Description: The tunings of these xylophones was not very accurate and the two instruments were not quite in unison but enough to give a good approximation of their tuning method. The overall size of the xylophone was 64 inches. The open mirlitons were made of cigarette papers. The central octave was 252, 232, 210, 190, 174, 158, 144, 126. The performers were three young boys between the ages of seven and tweleve years. The dance which accompanied this music is a simple ring dance with little action beyond a shuffle. Ulimba dance for young boys and girls with 2 xylophones.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Sengeledo (Name of a man)
- Dzowa and 3 young Mang'anja boys, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Dzowa and 3 young Mang'anja boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald District f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156018 , vital:39942 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-02
- Description: The instruments were made in 1955. The main xylophone was played by an older boy (about seventeen years). They are very simple, frame xylophones, crudely made. The leader is called Nyanga and the other players are Anamovi. The instrument is three legged. The resonating gourds are fastened alternately up and down as they are too large to place side by side. Two legs are fixed at the bass end and one at the trebler, the structure being so constructed as to lean the instrument over towards the player. The performers were three young boys between the ages of seven and tweleve years. The dance which accompanied this music is a simple ring dance with little action beyond a shuffle. Ulimba dance for young boys and girls with 2 xylophones.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Dzowa and 3 young Mang'anja boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald District f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156018 , vital:39942 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-02
- Description: The instruments were made in 1955. The main xylophone was played by an older boy (about seventeen years). They are very simple, frame xylophones, crudely made. The leader is called Nyanga and the other players are Anamovi. The instrument is three legged. The resonating gourds are fastened alternately up and down as they are too large to place side by side. Two legs are fixed at the bass end and one at the trebler, the structure being so constructed as to lean the instrument over towards the player. The performers were three young boys between the ages of seven and tweleve years. The dance which accompanied this music is a simple ring dance with little action beyond a shuffle. Ulimba dance for young boys and girls with 2 xylophones.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Nkamuona nkadamphwetheka (If I see him I will hurt him)
- E. J. Mbewe and I. K. Mwale, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: E. J. Mbewe and I. K. 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 Karongs, Salima, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153597 , vital:39484 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-08
- Description: These drinking songs are ideal for singing between friends as reality recedes into oblivion. Half way through the song they call for more beer. Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: E. J. Mbewe and I. K. 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 Karongs, Salima, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153597 , vital:39484 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-08
- Description: These drinking songs are ideal for singing between friends as reality recedes into oblivion. Half way through the song they call for more beer. Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ntakhala ndi mlongo (If only I had a sister)
- E. J. Mbewe and I. K. Mwale, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: E. J. Mbewe and I. K. 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 Karongs, Salima, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153587 , vital:39483 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-07
- Description: A man complaining that he was born the only child and has no sister. He expresses his sorrow and surprise that it should be so. Usually sung with women to do the mangombe. To be without a sister in this society, a matrilocal one, means the risk of being deprived of a home after the death of the parents. Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: E. J. Mbewe and I. K. 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 Karongs, Salima, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153587 , vital:39483 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-07
- Description: A man complaining that he was born the only child and has no sister. He expresses his sorrow and surprise that it should be so. Usually sung with women to do the mangombe. To be without a sister in this society, a matrilocal one, means the risk of being deprived of a home after the death of the parents. Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Mpaka (The Cat)
- Eddington Kwanjana and boys, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Eddington Kwanjana 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 Mzengera, Lilongwe, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153962 , vital:39548 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-01
- Description: The response after each phrase of the story is "Tirirose". S. "Mai tsegulire, mai tsegulire, CH. Kayendayenda eyaye kayenda. S. Ndatsala ndeka, ndiribe mai, CH Kayendayenda eyaye kayenda." A cat whose mother was named Damati lived in a forest where there were hyenas who wanted to eat the cats, and the cats did their best to protect themselves. The hyena (fai) started a dance and planned to eat whoever came to see ot. The cat had rattles on his legs and his mother taught him a song to sing whenever he got into trouble. The cat went to the hyena's dance and escaped into the mortar when the hyena wanted to eat him. Cat got at hyena's eyes, scratched them out and escaped. Story and song (Nthanu).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Eddington Kwanjana 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 Mzengera, Lilongwe, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153962 , vital:39548 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-01
- Description: The response after each phrase of the story is "Tirirose". S. "Mai tsegulire, mai tsegulire, CH. Kayendayenda eyaye kayenda. S. Ndatsala ndeka, ndiribe mai, CH Kayendayenda eyaye kayenda." A cat whose mother was named Damati lived in a forest where there were hyenas who wanted to eat the cats, and the cats did their best to protect themselves. The hyena (fai) started a dance and planned to eat whoever came to see ot. The cat had rattles on his legs and his mother taught him a song to sing whenever he got into trouble. The cat went to the hyena's dance and escaped into the mortar when the hyena wanted to eat him. Cat got at hyena's eyes, scratched them out and escaped. Story and song (Nthanu).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Mwana wanga (My child)
- Edess Nyalongwe, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Edess Nyalongwe , 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/10962/159681 , vital:40326 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-14
- Description: There is a Chewa custom that when a girl is old enough she is taught how to become a good wife and mother by a groub of the elder women. Now there was a girl who married but did not have herself properly towards her husband. So he complained to the group of women who took her and taught her again. That was always our custom. This story is in fact, a kind of simple morality story told with the object of impressing upon the youth the necessity of virtue. The singers who wrote out the words of the songs failed to appreciate the sequence of phrases in the verse they sang. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Edess Nyalongwe , 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/10962/159681 , vital:40326 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-14
- Description: There is a Chewa custom that when a girl is old enough she is taught how to become a good wife and mother by a groub of the elder women. Now there was a girl who married but did not have herself properly towards her husband. So he complained to the group of women who took her and taught her again. That was always our custom. This story is in fact, a kind of simple morality story told with the object of impressing upon the youth the necessity of virtue. The singers who wrote out the words of the songs failed to appreciate the sequence of phrases in the verse they sang. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Nyandalalani (The disobedient girl)
- Edess Nyalongwe and Chewa women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Edess Nyalongwe and 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 Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159694 , vital:40327 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-15
- Description: The explanation provided was as follows;- Long ago when a grown girl did not behave herself properly there were persons who had the duty of instructing her in deportment and manners. Is she did not obey her instructors she would be punished or beaten by the elder women. The girl in the stroy was just such one. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Edess Nyalongwe and 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 Kasungu f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159694 , vital:40327 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-15
- Description: The explanation provided was as follows;- Long ago when a grown girl did not behave herself properly there were persons who had the duty of instructing her in deportment and manners. Is she did not obey her instructors she would be punished or beaten by the elder women. The girl in the stroy was just such one. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Thano ya Timba (The story of Timba 'small bird')
- Authors: Edwin Tengani , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157939 , vital:40131 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-05
- Description: "Once there was a small bird called Timba. Timba made his living on a certain tree called Nkankande. He put a notice on the tree because he knew that the tree was beside the main path which all the animals took to drink water at the river. The notice said "Everyone who passes must look out because mu hut is here, anyone who does not heed my notice will die." After a while the elephants passed by and knocked down Timba's nest because the Nkankande tree is the natural food of elephants. At the time Timba was away looking after his cotton field. When he got back his house had gone. From the foot prints all around he knew it was the elephants and he said "I will see them on their way back". When the elephants came along Timba said, "which of you broke down my house?" "He had better confess at once or one of you will die, I am sure." Before the elephants arrived home one of them was already unhappy and his friend asked him what was the matter. "I am unhappy about what Timba said to us." He replied, "well if you are the one who spoiled Timba's nest we had better go back and tell him." But he refused and later that day he lay down and died. Messages were sent far and wide that an elephant had died and all the animals came to attend his funeral. Timba knew that the elephant had died on account of his notice, so when he came to the funeral Timba said, "I warned you about my tree, so let this be a warning to everyone that it is better to obey than to disobey because in this way a young man can make bad things right again." Story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Edwin Tengani , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157939 , vital:40131 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-05
- Description: "Once there was a small bird called Timba. Timba made his living on a certain tree called Nkankande. He put a notice on the tree because he knew that the tree was beside the main path which all the animals took to drink water at the river. The notice said "Everyone who passes must look out because mu hut is here, anyone who does not heed my notice will die." After a while the elephants passed by and knocked down Timba's nest because the Nkankande tree is the natural food of elephants. At the time Timba was away looking after his cotton field. When he got back his house had gone. From the foot prints all around he knew it was the elephants and he said "I will see them on their way back". When the elephants came along Timba said, "which of you broke down my house?" "He had better confess at once or one of you will die, I am sure." Before the elephants arrived home one of them was already unhappy and his friend asked him what was the matter. "I am unhappy about what Timba said to us." He replied, "well if you are the one who spoiled Timba's nest we had better go back and tell him." But he refused and later that day he lay down and died. Messages were sent far and wide that an elephant had died and all the animals came to attend his funeral. Timba knew that the elephant had died on account of his notice, so when he came to the funeral Timba said, "I warned you about my tree, so let this be a warning to everyone that it is better to obey than to disobey because in this way a young man can make bad things right again." Story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kumtandizi (Mtandizi is not sorry)
- Eight Chewa women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Eight 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 Kotakota f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160048 , vital:40376 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-09
- Description: Mtandizi is one of the local labour recuriting organizations. "Mtandizi is not sorry for taking my husband away from work." Chintala dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Eight 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 Kotakota f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160048 , vital:40376 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-09
- Description: Mtandizi is one of the local labour recuriting organizations. "Mtandizi is not sorry for taking my husband away from work." Chintala dance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kumenda Sanabwere (He has not come to the garden)
- Eight elderly women and two drummers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Eight elderly women and two drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155793 , vital:39917 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-14
- Description: Kwakwala stayed out in his garded an did not come back into the village as they went off to see what he was doing. He was dressed only in leaves and even ate leaves. When they got to his garden he was not there but at a place where an elephant had died and he was eating it. "He has not come to the garden, I thought I might go and see. He has not come. The elephant died at Magala, I wanted to see it, Kwakwala." The gourd rattles themselves give their name Chitsukulumwe to the dance which they accompany. Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles, drums and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Eight elderly women and two drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155793 , vital:39917 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-14
- Description: Kwakwala stayed out in his garded an did not come back into the village as they went off to see what he was doing. He was dressed only in leaves and even ate leaves. When they got to his garden he was not there but at a place where an elephant had died and he was eating it. "He has not come to the garden, I thought I might go and see. He has not come. The elephant died at Magala, I wanted to see it, Kwakwala." The gourd rattles themselves give their name Chitsukulumwe to the dance which they accompany. Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles, drums and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958