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Kuku lu-lu-ku (The crowing of the cock)

- Kachama, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kachama , 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/10962/155956 , vital:39935 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-16
  • Description: "The crowing of the cock, father, the cock crow. The people here, father, the cock crow. They like to deceive, father, to affect something tomorrow. At someone's village, father. Walking is like dancing, the cock crow." No doubt to the singers of this drinking song, walking home would indeed be similar to dancing after an all night party which only broke up at cock crow. Drinking song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kulera mwana (Looking after the baby)

- 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/10962/156130 , vital:39953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-13
  • Description: "To look after the child while the mother goes to the river to fetch water." 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

Kulira kwa ng'omba (The song of the Ground Hornbill)

- Lonesi Chewame and Toni Hetara, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Lonesi Chewame and Toni Hetara , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Katinga f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158081 , vital:40146 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-08
  • Description: This instrument had ten notes set on two banana stalks with sticks pierced into the stalks to divide the notes. The deep trumpeting of the ground hornbills in the early morning and evening is a well known feature of the low lying regions of the country. The reiterated low note represents the hornbill's call, "Ri-riti, ri-riti." Tune without words. Loose note xylophone.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

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

Kumnapa

- Chief Pemba, Hugh Tracey

Kumtandizi (Mtandizi is not sorry)

- Eight Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Kumtondo mwana amalira (At the pounding place the child was crying)

- P. G. Kalumbamoyo and 2 Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Kundandali ndanda (The hunter)

- Justina Banda, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Justina Banda , 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/10962/159658 , vital:40322 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-12
  • Description: There was once a man, a hunter called Kundandali who had a wife who tried to stop him leaving the house, saying, "Do not go, you have gunpowder and your gun on your shoulder." But the man was always going away and she always tried to stop him by begging him to put down his gun and his gunpowder and stay at home. The transcription of the vernacular words as written by the singers in both cases is rather uncertain and open to correction. Story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kupanda mlongo nkusauka (To be without a sister is to be without a home)

- Thawani Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Kupita Onaphili (Onaphili has died)

- Thawani Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Kwa-kwa-kwa umaye (It is dry)

- Young men and women of Mwasi's village, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young men and women of 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/10962/159594 , vital:40315 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-05
  • Description: The Nyau dance, they say is performed in the dry season. The dancers put on rags and cover their faces and heads with feathers or grass masks so that they cannot be recognised. In some cases disobedient girls can be caught and beaten. It is an initiation dance for boys but the women instructors can use them for this purpose. It always appears to be girls who need instruction and never the boys who merely go through their initiation ceremonies. Nyau dance (mask dance) with two drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Kwathu kumangulu (At Mangulu, our country)

- Frank Nantibule, Hugh Tracey

Kwende kwende ku mpilipili (Go, go to Mpilipili)

- Young Chewa boys (Under 20 years), Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Young Chewa boys (Under 20 years) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156894 , vital:40063 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR092-11
  • Description: A strange dance in which the dancers move their necks forward and backward like a chicken walking. The sung music is not easily followed at first until the drums between them simplify the ensemble with their clear crossed rhythms, the one (Kachisi) maintaining the ground rhythm. "Go, go to Mpili where there is an affair starting up between Duri and Diki." Ilala dance with two drums (Mudewa and Kachisi).
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  • Date Issued: 1958

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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  • Date Issued: 1958

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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  • Date Issued: 1958

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

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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  • 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
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