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Kwimba Kalimba (To play the Kalimba)

- E. A. Nkuzana, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: E. A. Nkuzana , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Tumbuka , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tumbuka (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa, Mzimba District f-rh
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156273 , vital:39970 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-08
  • Description: "To play the 'Kalimba' is to be happy. I remember long ago when I was a small child when I thought a breast was made of bone. But my mother told me that the breast was not bone, but flesh only. I was fooled long ago, I thought the breast was bone but it is flesh only. Listen my friends, the breast is flesh only." It seems that the obvious meaning of the words is intended to serve a secondary one. Perhaps the revelation of the begining of his natural sex life. Self delectative song.
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Kwiyo kwiyo (Catch the chicken)

- Joey Ngwira, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Joey Ngwira , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasengu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156885 , vital:40062 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-10
  • Description: The Pango (Bango or Bangwe) is the instrument most commonly found throughout Nyasaland. Here the local dialect changes the more usual Bangwe to Pango and sometimes Pangwe. I was strummed with a swaying of the fingers. The singer begs for a chicken. People have been dancing and then are asking the owner of the house to give them a chicken to eat before they go home. Kwiyo-kwiyo is the sound of the fowl. "Kwiyo-kwiyo, catch the chicken even though it is a small one. There is the chicken." The sound of a bugle intrudes just before the end of the song. Self delectative song with board zither (Pango).
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Lembani kalata kwa Masula (Write to Masula)

- Three young girls of Masula, Hugh Tracey

Leni, Leni (Leni, the fighter)

- Young Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young 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 Pemba f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159021 , vital:40251 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-20
  • Description: "Leni, Leni is a fighter, that man of mine. We talk together, not like two pigeons." One of the two bass drums was made out of a 44 gallon petrol drum and the other was made from a samller paint tin. These metal cylinders are more easily obtained than by the arduous task of cutting down and shaping large tress. Chintala dance for women with two brass drums.
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Lezondaba. Imbube ingonyama (The stories)

- Five girls of the Queen Mother's village, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Five girls of the Queen Mother's village , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152303 , vital:39244 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-15
  • Description: Song for the Mhlanga ceremonies held by the young girls. This is the "reed" ceremony. The young girls go down to the rivers to cut reeds and this song is sung when they bring back the reeds to the village. "Whenever a girl fails in love, her young man is taken away to go to the war." The song was composed during the Second World War. Ceremonial Mhlanga song for reed ceremonies.
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Likhuba (Drum Rhythm)

- Bauleni Zhuau with 3 other drummers, Hugh Tracey

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.
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Lile, Lile makonokaya (Lile, Lile, what will happen this year)

- Five Chewa men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Five 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 Dedza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160224 , vital:40421 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-07
  • Description: This was said to have been sung when the Europeans first came to the country and the people did not know what was going to happen. The friction sticks are held in the left hand, the serated parts downwards and scraped with a small stick. The song was originally sung by Matengo people, a small tribe who were overrun and absorbed by the Ngoni people, it is said. If the explanation of the singers is correct, the song must be about 60-70 years old. Who Lile may have been, no one knew. M'kwenda dance with 5 Umkwenda friction sticks.
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Lita, tende ngewelo (Lita, let us go to the hut)

- George Zongoloti, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: George Zongoloti , 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/10962/155712 , vital:39908 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-05
  • Description: This song refers to the custom of young people's sex play which normally results in marriage. Lita was a young girl who was refusing to sleep with her young lover. Now she had a baby and the baby died, so her lover complained about his lost child. He said, "give me back my child, Fasanai and Thompson, so much have I paid to marry you and have a child. If I do not get a child, I shall go to Rhodesia, to Lilongwe, to Lourenco Marques ot to Johannesburg or Cape Town to get a child. Fasanai and Thompson, you must bring my baby back because it is you who killed my child." Topical song with Nthikwi drum.
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Liti (Liti and the graveyard)

- Madura Rabecu and G. Coffee, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Madura Rabecu 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/10962/153893 , vital:39534 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-11
  • Description: An interesting melody. There was once a man who said to his wife Liti late one night: "Liti, let me go and I will show you my garden." But it was dark and she could see nothing until they got to the place and there she saw not crops but many old people ghosts and wizards. Ah, she said, you do not show me your crops but your grave yard among the tall trees. So they returned home and the next morning she said she could no longer stay with a husband who did that kid of thing to her. She wanted a true marriage. A strange story. "Liti, nkhakuronga ciwera nkhakurongo ciwera Liti angunena ku Masamo. Liti, madoda ngakhurukana madoda ngachulukana, Him, "Liti, ket me go and show you my garden." Her, when he said his "garden" he really meant "the grave yard." "Liti, the old men are gathered together there, at the grave yard." Story song
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Lizwe linomoya thatha ibhatshi lakho (It is windy and the boys and girls must take their coats)

- Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers, Hugh Tracey

Lizzie wanga (My Lizzie)

- S. R. Chitalo and De Ndirande Pitch Crooners, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: S. R. Chitalo and De Ndirande Pitch Crooners , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Blantyre f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155558 , vital:39894 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-09
  • Description: Taken from an old recording, name unknown. A typical example of the sentimental song now popular in urban surroundings, and not original. "My Lizzie, at the cross roads where we met and spoke. You are the only one I think was made for me. My heart will never forget you, never leave me lonely. I dream about you, think about you and remember your kisses." Love song with guitar.
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Lo Ma Joini (The Recruits)

- Yelanjani Matula, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Yelanjani Matula , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock Mine f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152644 , vital:39326 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR071-05
  • Description: This topical song refers to the life of the mine compound with its racy side. It amused the onlookers and no one took exception to the sentiments expressed. Topical song with concertina.
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Lolo mntwanami (Hush, my child)

- Justine Shabangu, Hugh Tracey

Londida ("A butterfly", the flighty girl)

- Lamkhwanase Tsemba, 4 girls and group of men from the Queen mother's village, Hugh Tracey

Lote-lote (Lote)

- Elefala Jeremiah Mbewe, Hugh Tracey

Lupanda

- Sergent Deza and his wife, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Sergent Deza and his wife , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba, Police Headquarters, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Yao
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154712 , vital:39767 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-05
  • Description: A husband and wife happily sing a strange antiphonal duct together which would, upon first aquaintance, appear to be a lively quarrel but is in fact the very opposite. Bark cloth once so frequently used in this region now seems to be used only occassionaly for funerals and other ceremonies according to our informant. "That woman dresses herself in bark-cloth thinking she will die alone." Song for initiation of boys, with clapping.
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Luwanika

- 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/10962/160537 , vital:40471 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-01
  • Description: Girls invite other girls of different villages to come and dance with them at the time of harvesting when they sing and dance the kasodo together. Luwanika, the name of the Northern Rhodesian Lozi paramount Chief is invoked, as a famous name but for no other specific reason, except that locally in Dedza, Luwanika has a ficitious reputation for making magic medicines according to these simple and distant people...a kind of wizard of oz - 'whiz of a wizzard!' "Luwanika, to dance you must have strong legs." Kasodo girls dance, with clapping.
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Luya, luya kuwinda mwamuna (Luya, Luya, if you want to keep a husband)

- Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 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/10962/160179 , vital:40416 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-02
  • Description: The Mjiri dance is performed by oung girls on moonlight nights after supper. This is a Chewa version of a universal truth. 'Feed the brute'. The medicines mentioned in the song were interpreted as love charms. "Luya, Luya. If you want to keep a husband you must cook. But when you cook do not put medicines into the food. Yes! I will do so! A Luya." Mjiri dance song. Girls evening dances with clapping.
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M' Sodomo (Sodom was burnt)

- Boys of Chief Mwasi's village, Hugh Tracey

  • 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.
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