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Mungate Tamara

- Mbuluwundi, Ruben Tankadi, 5 Tumbuka men, Tracey, Hugh

Mungate tamara

- R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer), Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers), Hugh Tracey

Yohane ulembe kalata

- Tumbuka and Ngoni men and women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Awoli a legimenti

- Tumbuka women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tumbuka women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185141 , vital:44332 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-11
  • Description: "Soilders wives, take care of your clothes, you may have to dispose of some of them to buy yourselves food." A poignant little song which reflects the experience of war wives (1939-45). It has an attractive melody in the chorus. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
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Benu

- Maluba Mwale, Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Maluba Mwale , Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chiundasi f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184689 , vital:44249 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-13
  • Description: "What am I going to tell them? Where am I going to complain? I am singing like a church organ." Benu is the name of a jumping action in the dance. This instrument was particulary well played and well made of its kind. The one stringed lute appears to come from the upper Nile and has not been found south of Nyasaland and the Zambesi valley. Chioda dance song for young women with Karigo one stringed lute
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Diyele Wane

- Japheti Zimba, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Diyele wane

- Japhiti Zimba, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Japhiti Zimba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185114 , vital:44329 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-08
  • Description: The Kalimba, they say, is a comparatively new to this district and people. They have recently begun to learn it from the Nsenga at Fort Jameson where this player had gone to work on a Europen farm there in 1922. "You always call me 'dear' with your mouth, but what kind of 'dear' is this if you do not let me sleep with you?" This is a pleasnt little melody set against an appropriate accompaniment. The player's old voice does not do his own melody credit, as so often happens among folk singers, and it should be performed by a younger person to bring out its virtue. Love song with Kalimba Mbira (nine notes)
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Oo! madoda!

- Falesi Phiri, Chewa women and girls, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Falesi Phiri , Chewa women and girls , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187298 , vital:44598 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR192-09
  • Description: "Men, rejoice and honour the flag of our King George!" This is the kind of African dance tune in which the qauntity of noise is more important than the quality of its production. The style of singing appears to be influenced by the songs usually taught in schools and cannot be said to be wholly indigenous in form. The women first sing and then circle around to the sound of the drums. They shake to and fro side to side, their fronts counter balancing their sterns in opposite motion. The comparative simplicity of the music and drumming indicates the subtle influence of school (foreign) music teaching. Kasodo dance song for women and girls with Barrel drum, double heade, laced, and a tin (-12.16-) and whistles (-11.515-)
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Yo baba ngonile

- Yafeti Zimba, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Yohane ulembe kalata

- Mwale, Gordoni, Tumbuka and Ngoni men and women, Tracey, Hugh

Yauluma Ndenge Pa Mzimba

- Men of the second battalion at Zomba Nyasaland, Private Lapukeni Phiri, Tracey, Hugh

Tuma Boma twamitundu ciwawa

- Henga men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ka mukondo dede

- Henga Men, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Pa ifwa ya bwana

- Henga Men, Harawa, Hanoki, Tracey, Hugh

Sheli kananda

- Sipaita, Masuwa, Yamvwa, Yamvwa, Luunda men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Bwasemera obugenyi bwamunywami wange

- Musumali Chinyama, Performer not specified, Folk, Tracey, Hugh

Che mwali china salile

- Uladi Kachoka A Coy, performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Iche nasalile

- Uladi Kachoka A Coy, performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Lembani kalata ku Nyasaland

- Men of the 2nd Bn (NY) K.A.R, performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mwe mfumu wani yura

- Three Tumbuku women and ten Tumbuka men, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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