Ogandaba Nyasisha (He will burn the whole country)
- Group of unmarried Swazi girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of unmarried Swazi girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Entonjeni, Pigg's Peak f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152956 , vital:39366 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-03
- Description: Songa of this kind are commonly used to make the time pass more quickly on a journey. Walking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Group of unmarried Swazi girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Entonjeni, Pigg's Peak f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152956 , vital:39366 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-03
- Description: Songa of this kind are commonly used to make the time pass more quickly on a journey. Walking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ogo de zili ndi myendo (She has tattoo marks)
- C. Banda and G. Phiri, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: C. Banda and G. Phiri , 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 village, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153652 , vital:39494 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-13
- Description: It is notable that the Chewa men of the region have the lowest opinion of their wives and vice versa, the custom which allows immediate marriage without bride price (Dibolo) or any other formality except what is locally called 'snatching' has clearly led to this state of affairs and whether recent or of long standing they could not say. Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: C. Banda and G. Phiri , 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 village, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153652 , vital:39494 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-13
- Description: It is notable that the Chewa men of the region have the lowest opinion of their wives and vice versa, the custom which allows immediate marriage without bride price (Dibolo) or any other formality except what is locally called 'snatching' has clearly led to this state of affairs and whether recent or of long standing they could not say. Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Omuna wanga (Oh! my husband)
- Authors: Thawani Mwale , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mubvi, Salima District f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156788 , vital:40050 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-05
- Description: A woman complaining to her brother that he has married her off to a bad husband who beats her. She asks to go to Karonga (the chief) to be divorced. Her husband has no money to buy her beer but he buys it for a stranger. Lament with Bangwe board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Thawani Mwale , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mubvi, Salima District f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156788 , vital:40050 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-05
- Description: A woman complaining to her brother that he has married her off to a bad husband who beats her. She asks to go to Karonga (the chief) to be divorced. Her husband has no money to buy her beer but he buys it for a stranger. Lament with Bangwe board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Onani ndenge yokwela masula (Look at the aeroplane)
- Woman of Masula village, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Woman of Masula 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158526 , vital:40202 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-07
- Description: The Chief Masula was taken to England with other Nyasaland chiefs for a few months visit in 1957. The song refers to the aeroplane in which he returned landing at the airport, Chileka near Blantyre. "Look at the aeroplane in which Masula came from England. He slept at Chileka on his way back from England. Chintale dance song with bass drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Woman of Masula 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158526 , vital:40202 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-07
- Description: The Chief Masula was taken to England with other Nyasaland chiefs for a few months visit in 1957. The song refers to the aeroplane in which he returned landing at the airport, Chileka near Blantyre. "Look at the aeroplane in which Masula came from England. He slept at Chileka on his way back from England. Chintale dance song with bass drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Opela utumiza (Though you give me cloth)
- Visanza girl's school choir, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Visanza girl's school choir , 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/10962/160016 , vital:40369 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-05
- Description: The man in the context went away to look for his employer, Mr. Baloni (Mr. Baron) near Lilongwe and stayed away for a very long time. He sent his wife cloth, but she said she did not want just cloth but her husband for whom she would go all the way to Lilongwe in order to be with him. Nsita dance song for women with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Visanza girl's school choir , 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/10962/160016 , vital:40369 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-05
- Description: The man in the context went away to look for his employer, Mr. Baloni (Mr. Baron) near Lilongwe and stayed away for a very long time. He sent his wife cloth, but she said she did not want just cloth but her husband for whom she would go all the way to Lilongwe in order to be with him. Nsita dance song for women with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Owaha o Lomwe (When you come from Lomwe)
- Sitoni Maulidi and Dailoni Likluva, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Sitoni Maulidi and Dailoni Likluva , 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/10962/160652 , vital:40489 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-10
- Description: This strange song is sung about three months after the burial, they say. "You befoul yourself. When you came from Lomwe, you had no plate. You met me, your friend, but have turned against me." Obseques after death, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Sitoni Maulidi and Dailoni Likluva , 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/10962/160652 , vital:40489 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-10
- Description: This strange song is sung about three months after the burial, they say. "You befoul yourself. When you came from Lomwe, you had no plate. You met me, your friend, but have turned against me." Obseques after death, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ozani muone kuwala (Come and see the glory)
- Samkani Mponela, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Samkani Mponela , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159051 , vital:40254 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-23
- Description: This style of dancing is most popular in the Dowa district, where most large villages, they say, have their own groups of enthusiasts. "Come and see the glory of these boys". Not the European accent on the ultimate syllable. "muone kuwala", instead of the normal "mu'one kuw'ala". This may well spring from the fact that the Malipenga dance and its dance songs originated with military drilling as performed by the Kings African Rifles and the Nyasaland police. Mujanda dance with Malipenga singing horns.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Samkani Mponela , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dowa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159051 , vital:40254 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-23
- Description: This style of dancing is most popular in the Dowa district, where most large villages, they say, have their own groups of enthusiasts. "Come and see the glory of these boys". Not the European accent on the ultimate syllable. "muone kuwala", instead of the normal "mu'one kuw'ala". This may well spring from the fact that the Malipenga dance and its dance songs originated with military drilling as performed by the Kings African Rifles and the Nyasaland police. Mujanda dance with Malipenga singing horns.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Pamukadzi wo munu takataka
- Authors: Pineas Hungwe , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154373 , vital:39654 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-13
- Description: In this song the singer explains, is about men who spend their time with other men's wives. Why do you do so? he sings. It is because she makes good tea, because she cooks well, because she laughs with me. "You get out or I will hit you." Topical song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Pineas Hungwe , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154373 , vital:39654 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR081-13
- Description: In this song the singer explains, is about men who spend their time with other men's wives. Why do you do so? he sings. It is because she makes good tea, because she cooks well, because she laughs with me. "You get out or I will hit you." Topical song with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Panali mwanace (The son's fortune)
- Ali Sinoia Milazi and 4 Yao men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Ali Sinoia Milazi and 4 Yao men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154775 , vital:39774 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-12
- Description: There was once a man and his son who went to the lake for fishing, they caught nothing and went home. The son bought an egg but dropped it on the path, but inside the egg were cows and goats in plenty. So he sang a song saying, "We went to the lake but got no fish, but when I bought this egg I had no idea what was in it." Now the father became jealous of his son. He took some glue and glued his son to a tree, but all the cattle and goats stayed with the son and the father still got none. So he left his son in the bush. When he was asked by is wife where his son was, he said, "Oh! he was ahead of me." The woman replied, "You walk too much with my son and now you have lost him." The listeners often call out the typical Yao response og 'Go'. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Ali Sinoia Milazi and 4 Yao men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Yao
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154775 , vital:39774 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-12
- Description: There was once a man and his son who went to the lake for fishing, they caught nothing and went home. The son bought an egg but dropped it on the path, but inside the egg were cows and goats in plenty. So he sang a song saying, "We went to the lake but got no fish, but when I bought this egg I had no idea what was in it." Now the father became jealous of his son. He took some glue and glued his son to a tree, but all the cattle and goats stayed with the son and the father still got none. So he left his son in the bush. When he was asked by is wife where his son was, he said, "Oh! he was ahead of me." The woman replied, "You walk too much with my son and now you have lost him." The listeners often call out the typical Yao response og 'Go'. Story song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Panali Ntowi-towi (The bird Ntowi-towi)
- Kampala Mware and Chewa boys, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kampala Mware 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 Visanza, Kotakota District, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154086 , vital:39561 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-14
- Description: There was once a bird called Ntowi-towi, who went to a certain village to find a wife but he failed because he had thin legs. So he returned to his house. But later, some of the girls who had turned him down went to get fruit. On their way they wanted water to drink. But the bird refused eo allow them to drink as they had refused him. One girl thereupon decided to marry him after all, and they all sang "I came to your village to marry you and you refused me on account of my legs, now I will take you to be my wife." Now the girl and the bird stayed together and often sang the same song together. "I went to your house to marry you and you refused m because of my thin legs." Eventually the girl ran away from the bird, but he went on singing all alone the very same song. Story song (Nthanu)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Kampala Mware 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 Visanza, Kotakota District, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154086 , vital:39561 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-14
- Description: There was once a bird called Ntowi-towi, who went to a certain village to find a wife but he failed because he had thin legs. So he returned to his house. But later, some of the girls who had turned him down went to get fruit. On their way they wanted water to drink. But the bird refused eo allow them to drink as they had refused him. One girl thereupon decided to marry him after all, and they all sang "I came to your village to marry you and you refused me on account of my legs, now I will take you to be my wife." Now the girl and the bird stayed together and often sang the same song together. "I went to your house to marry you and you refused m because of my thin legs." Eventually the girl ran away from the bird, but he went on singing all alone the very same song. Story song (Nthanu)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Panari mtsikana wina (The girl and the beads)
- Boys of Masula village, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Boys of Masula 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158544 , vital:40205 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-09
- Description: An equivalent story to one in Southern Rhodesia. There were three girls who went to the river to get water. They had big strings of beads but one forgot her beads down by the river and when she got home she told her brothers and asked them to take her back to the river to look for them. They refused, so she went alone. She found a hyena who had taken her beads and put them inside a drum and then when she arrived he caught her and put her inside the drum also. He then went to the village to play the drum. The people of the village heard her singing inside the drum. They cooked food and gave it to the hyena who, as soon as he had eaten the food began to play the drum. He went to another village and did the same. The girl inside the drum got very hot but eventually her brothers saved her by cutting open the drum and the hyena diasppeared. A were-wolf story. Nthano story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Boys of Masula 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 Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158544 , vital:40205 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-09
- Description: An equivalent story to one in Southern Rhodesia. There were three girls who went to the river to get water. They had big strings of beads but one forgot her beads down by the river and when she got home she told her brothers and asked them to take her back to the river to look for them. They refused, so she went alone. She found a hyena who had taken her beads and put them inside a drum and then when she arrived he caught her and put her inside the drum also. He then went to the village to play the drum. The people of the village heard her singing inside the drum. They cooked food and gave it to the hyena who, as soon as he had eaten the food began to play the drum. He went to another village and did the same. The girl inside the drum got very hot but eventually her brothers saved her by cutting open the drum and the hyena diasppeared. A were-wolf story. Nthano story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Panzi paweni mayo (At other peoples village)
- Authors: C. Thipha , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155966 , vital:39936 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-17
- Description: At another peoples villages it is better when you are alive. There used to be a house here. Why was it taken away? It is because you are too talkative." There seems to be some sound common sense about this song but somehow it escapes the singers whose minds have receded towrds the pleasures of trivialities. It is a good thing to have your wits about you when drinking away from home or you may be tempted to make such observations as I am sure there used to be a house here. Old boy, what has happened to it? And as the song implies make a fool of yourself. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: C. Thipha , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155966 , vital:39936 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-17
- Description: At another peoples villages it is better when you are alive. There used to be a house here. Why was it taken away? It is because you are too talkative." There seems to be some sound common sense about this song but somehow it escapes the singers whose minds have receded towrds the pleasures of trivialities. It is a good thing to have your wits about you when drinking away from home or you may be tempted to make such observations as I am sure there used to be a house here. Old boy, what has happened to it? And as the song implies make a fool of yourself. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Para vilipo (If there is anything left)
- Authors: 8 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/10962/156309 , vital:39975 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-12
- Description: "If there is any left at all, give to a stranger." A drinking song with a genuine ring. What hope had the stranger, an outsider of getting a share. Drinking son with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: 8 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/10962/156309 , vital:39975 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR090-12
- Description: "If there is any left at all, give to a stranger." A drinking song with a genuine ring. What hope had the stranger, an outsider of getting a share. Drinking son with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Patse mtondo wanga (Give me my mortar)
- Authors: Thawani Mwale , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mubvi, Salima District f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156810 , vital:40052 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-06
- Description: A woman who has no child of her own complains to her friend who has a child. "Give me my mortar. I also need flour." But she has no child to help her. Sung with considerable feeling for the situation in which the woman finds herself. Lament (also used as a drinking song) with Bangwe board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Thawani Mwale , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mubvi, Salima District f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156810 , vital:40052 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-06
- Description: A woman who has no child of her own complains to her friend who has a child. "Give me my mortar. I also need flour." But she has no child to help her. Sung with considerable feeling for the situation in which the woman finds herself. Lament (also used as a drinking song) with Bangwe board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Phakachere (Under the Kachere tree)
- Authors: Men and 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/10962/156036 , vital:39944 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-04
- Description: "Kachere tree, kachere tree. The white men are at home under the kachere tree. When riding in aeroplanes, kachere. When making aeroplanes, kachere." Njiri dance for young people with clapping and two small drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Men and 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/10962/156036 , vital:39944 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-04
- Description: "Kachere tree, kachere tree. The white men are at home under the kachere tree. When riding in aeroplanes, kachere. When making aeroplanes, kachere." Njiri dance for young people with clapping and two small drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Pinda Zimshaya (Hit him again)
- Tinote Dlamini and the Try Singers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Tinote Dlamini and the Try Singers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Usutu Forest, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152622 , vital:39324 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR071-03
- Description: These singers came from the motor and transport section of the Usutu Forest Force, and singing mith great favour and action are most entertaining to watch. Mbube song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Tinote Dlamini and the Try Singers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Usutu Forest, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152622 , vital:39324 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR071-03
- Description: These singers came from the motor and transport section of the Usutu Forest Force, and singing mith great favour and action are most entertaining to watch. Mbube song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Pita uko (Together)
- Johani Kamzimbi, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Johani Kamzimbi , 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/10962/158978 , vital:40247 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-16
- Description: The player held his zither sideways and plucked the far top string with the thumb of his left hand, running over the other strings with his right, alternate strings together. "To go by yourself to Nyanja (Nyasaland) is not good. Better come with me." Self delectative song with board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Johani Kamzimbi , 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/10962/158978 , vital:40247 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-16
- Description: The player held his zither sideways and plucked the far top string with the thumb of his left hand, running over the other strings with his right, alternate strings together. "To go by yourself to Nyanja (Nyasaland) is not good. Better come with me." Self delectative song with board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Pita uko (Together)
- Johani Kamzimbi, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Johani Kamzimbi , 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/10962/158973 , vital:40246 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-16
- Description: The player held his zither sideways and plucked the far top string with the thumb of his left hand, running over the other strings with his right, alternate strings together. "To go by yourself to Nyanja (Nyasaland) is not good. Better come with me." Self delectative song with board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Johani Kamzimbi , 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/10962/158973 , vital:40246 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-16
- Description: The player held his zither sideways and plucked the far top string with the thumb of his left hand, running over the other strings with his right, alternate strings together. "To go by yourself to Nyanja (Nyasaland) is not good. Better come with me." Self delectative song with board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Rungano
- Authors: Wambai , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154545 , vital:39745 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-07
- Description: Self delectative song with Chipendani bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Wambai , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154545 , vital:39745 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-07
- Description: Self delectative song with Chipendani bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Rungano (The story of the younger brother)
- Farai Takawarasha and Ncube Shoko, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Farai Takawarasha and Ncube Shoko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154558 , vital:39746 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-08
- Description: There were once two brothers who were both herdboys. The elder incited the younger to fight him. While they were fighting the elder brother tired and the younger brother beat him. So the elder brother ran away leaving the younger brother to bring home the cattle. The younger brother thought that their fight was over, but at midnight when he was already in bed he heard a knock at the door and found his older brother standing there. "What do you want?" "I would like to fight again" he replied. So they set to. Again the elder brother was defeated and during the fight they broke the windows and furniture. Early in the morning the elder brother returned and found the younger brother eating mealies, and the younger brother never suspected that the elder brother was eager to fight the third time. He offered the elder brother some mealies but he said he was still dissatisfied with the result of the fight. So they fought again a third time and again and again for six matches, until the younger brother decided he must leave the villgae for good. So he left his home and that was the end of the story. Rungano story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Farai Takawarasha and Ncube Shoko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154558 , vital:39746 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-08
- Description: There were once two brothers who were both herdboys. The elder incited the younger to fight him. While they were fighting the elder brother tired and the younger brother beat him. So the elder brother ran away leaving the younger brother to bring home the cattle. The younger brother thought that their fight was over, but at midnight when he was already in bed he heard a knock at the door and found his older brother standing there. "What do you want?" "I would like to fight again" he replied. So they set to. Again the elder brother was defeated and during the fight they broke the windows and furniture. Early in the morning the elder brother returned and found the younger brother eating mealies, and the younger brother never suspected that the elder brother was eager to fight the third time. He offered the elder brother some mealies but he said he was still dissatisfied with the result of the fight. So they fought again a third time and again and again for six matches, until the younger brother decided he must leave the villgae for good. So he left his home and that was the end of the story. Rungano story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958