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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.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kwathu kumangulu (At Mangulu, our country)

- Frank Nantibule, Hugh Tracey

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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  • Date Issued: 1958

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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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mai dale tawa tumbila (My darling went away)

- Agnes Maknwalo, Hugh Tracey

Mama akandipanga (Mother used to tell me)

- M. S. Ngomwa and six Mang'anja boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: M. S. Ngomwa and six Mang'anja boys , 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/10962/158141 , vital:40153 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-11
  • Description: This, it was explained, was a morality song to be sung as a warning to girls not to marry poor men. There appeared to be no association between the words of the lyric and the occassion, the party after the burial, which could be established. The singers did not know why it was sung on such occassions. "Mother used to tell me that I should get married to a man with brick house and a lamp which is used for light instead of fire. Now I am married to a poor man who has patches on his clothes. patches! patches on his clothes!" A funeral dance sung after burual with tins (used as drums).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Manja ndi kapolo (Hands are slaves)

- Lonesi Chewane and Joni Hetara, Hugh Tracey

Melo (Name of a man)

- Young girls and 4 drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young girls and 4 drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chipwembwe, Fort Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155811 , vital:39919 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-01
  • Description: The drums are carved out of Mutondo wood (one of Sokosa wood) cut locally on the plain. The maker Bauleni made No. 5 as long ago as 1930. The others are more recent. The membranes are of ox hide. The dance is well performed by the young girls who stand in a row or semicircle near the drums and each comes out in turn to do a solo dance, a clever rhythmic routine ending with a sharp pelvic jerk. As one girl finishes another immediately takes her place. The drums are all played with curved wooden beaters except the 2 bass drums numbers 8 and 9 which are played with hands. Some of the girls held clappers and one a tin rattle. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
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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.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mkazi wa mulomo (The talkative woman)

- Lonesi Chewane and Joni Hetara, Hugh Tracey

Mnyamata (Young man why dont you marry?)

- Frank Nantibule, Hugh Tracey

Mose dzakono panga-pa (Mose come back)

- M. S. Ngomwa and five Mang'anja boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: M. S. Ngomwa and five Mang'anja boys , 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/10962/158123 , vital:40150 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-09
  • Description: A song commonly used by the canoe on the lower Shire river, a large tributary of the Zambezi. It would seem to reflect the common anxiety of fisher folk everywhere, the fear that the boat and its crew may never come back. "Mose, you come back, come back, you return and my spirit will be at rest. If you go again, then you can go because I have seen your face. The sun is already high and you paddle slowly like a duck." Canoe song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mukadzi wanga (My wife)

- Young girls and 4 drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young girls and 4 drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chipwembwe, Fort Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155820 , vital:39920 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-02
  • Description: The drums are carved out of Mutondo wood (one of Sokosa wood) cut locally on the plain. The maker Bauleni made No. 5 as long ago as 1930. The others are more recent. The membranes are of ox hide. The dance is well performed by the young girls who stand in a row or semicircle near the drums and each comes out in turn to do a solo dance, a clever rhythmic routine ending with a sharp pelvic jerk. As one girl finishes another immediately takes her place. The drums are all played with curved wooden beaters except the 2 bass drums numbers 8 and 9 which are played with hands. Some of the girls held clappers and one a tin rattle. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mulandeza mulanganga (A bag my brother)

- Six elderly women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Six elderly women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155748 , vital:39912 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-09
  • Description: This is an old dance, now only performed by the old people. Two of the performers grasped the long gourd rattles with alternate hands while others beat it with the palm of one hand. The gourds have maize seeds inside as the rattling medium. As they wear away they are replaced with new dry seeds. Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles and clapping.
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  • 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

Munaona (You will see)

- Agnes Maknwalo, Hugh Tracey

Mwana wa Namwali (Child of Namwali)

- Young Men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young 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/10962/156054 , vital:39946 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-06
  • Description: "The child of Namwali will not sleep today. The child of an older woman, will not sleep today. Will not sleep today. I will 'wage war' at the end of the year." The words 'wage war' are a euphemism for the marriage bed. The song is a warning to a girl to 'go straight' and not to cheapen herself with men. The word 'Namwali' usually refers to a virgin. Chiponda dance with clapping and 3 drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mwanaya (This child)

- Chiko Phiri, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Chiko Phiri , 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/10962/156135 , vital:39955 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-14
  • Description: "The child cries because it is not mine." The father of this seven months old child took his baby in his arms and sang two lullabies, which he said his wife did not know how to sing. The child was as good as gold during the first, but cried all through the second. In spite of the words of the second song, the child was in fact his own. He called himself "Extra Zambezi" for some private reason. Lullaby.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mwezi mtondo (Month after next)

- Katunga and Mailoso (8 and 6 years old). Son and nephew of the chief, Hugh Tracey

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