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Bemu tuvoni memba

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

Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134064 , vital:37067 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-06
Description: "When you drink beer, it sparkles and tingles against your tonsils! When the beer is ready you must send a boy round to tell your friends."
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Date Issued: 1957

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Cin'goma ca kubaruka

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

Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134028 , vital:37061 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-02
Description: The song is about a man who brought his drum to a party. Unfortunately someone put his foot through it, and thereafter it produced some very strange noises which the leader imitates in the course of the song
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Date Issued: 1957

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Kamudyanga

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

Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134037 , vital:37063 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-03
Description: A man asked his wife for some monkey nuts and she refused to give them to him. One day he hid himself and found the pot where she kept them and ate them all. Whe she discovered this, she reproached him and said: "Why didn't you ask me, I would have given them to you." "Ah, said the man, but when I asked you the first time you refused."
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Date Issued: 1957

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Kayuni

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

Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134019 , vital:37060 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-01
Description: The song is about the long-tailed widow-bird who found it impossible to manage his long tail when he tried to settle on a perch. The leader makes a series of strange sounds representing the great difficulty the small bird is having in trying to balance itself. The bird in question is the long-tailed paradise bird
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Date Issued: 1957

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Mungate tamara

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

Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134046 , vital:37064 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-04
Description: The song is supposed to be sung by the fore-fathers of the tribe, who say: "We still know how to drink!" In the song, the leader was Smart Chigwamba.
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Date Issued: 1957

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Ng'eng'e kumatengele

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

Authors: R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer) , Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers) , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Humorous songs , Songs, Tumbuka , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
Language: Tumbuka
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134051 , vital:37065 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR017-05
Description: The song is about a woman who has gone to market and left her child shut up in the house, and the noise it makes.
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Date Issued: 1957

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The Sound of Africa: Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland

Authors: Tracey, Hugh
Subjects: Cibinda aluba , Bush music , Mapanza Mission , Beating of sticks , Balombwana Atweende , Young girls , Pestle , Ndatwa , Copper belt , Kawambwa , Talking drum , Luunda , Cazembe , Luapula River , Ant hills , Drum praises , Lakw mweru , Gramophone , Jimmy Rodgers , Broken Hill , Joni Na Joni , Mine workers , Chokwe , Luvale , Chitenge , Bemba , Fipa , Tabwe , Chitimukulu , Blinded musicians , Tata shibwalya , Lament , Women , Fighting , Nkhondo Ku Libya , Petauke , Lobegula‘s gold and ivory , Mbira , Bearded snake , Sun , Moon , Zuwa na mwezi , Pounding songs , Wives , Kontololija , Bangwe , Zither , Tonga , Dale wangu , Hymn , Church of Scotland , Chilongozgi , Tumbuka Henga , Humorous songs , Paradise widow bird , Kayuni , Ngoni , Migration of Zulu people , Chakunaka , Gurkha , Ngoma , Army life , Regiment , Dance song , Malipenga dance , Tinthumula , Lomwe , Nikongwe , Zimbabwe , Miner‘s Yell , Miner‘s Rant
Language: English
Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
Identifier: vital:15059 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008487 , Reel numbers: BC009, BC010, BC011, BC012
Description: 4th programme in ‘The Sound of Africa‘ Series A of illustrated talks by Hugh Tracey on his travels in search of African music, broadcast by the South African Broadcasting Corporation , Note that two possible dates were given for this broadcast and it is not clear which date is correct , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
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