South African Music Archive Project
Chewa
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- Composer: Nyanja girls (Performer) | 1950/05/22 | Chewa, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kasungu, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Poetry, Song, Southern African, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Unaccompanied poem song. Further details refer ILAM field card number DX4
- Composer: Chewa girls (Performer) | 1950/05/22 | Chewa, Chewa, Clapping, Indigenous music, Kasungu, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Southern African, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number DX4
- Artist(s): Mikaeli Phiri (Leader) | Composer: Mulale School children (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Chewa, Drum, East African, Malawi, metal, Mulale School, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Phiri,Mikaeli Husen, Physical training song, School music, Southern African, Whistle, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1338
- Artist(s): Mulale School Children (Performer) | Composer: Mikaeli Husen Phiri (Performer) | 1950/05/19 | Chewa, Drum, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lilongwe, Malawi, metal, Mulale School, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Phiri,Mikaeli Husen, Southern African, ILAM | Physical exercises to music. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard DU8.
- Composer: Gidioni Kachitenji | 1949/09/04 | board, Chewa, disappointment, friends, Gidioni Kachitenji, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Pangwe, Song, Southern African, topical, Zither, ILAM | Topical song dealing with disappointment in friends. The song is accompanied by the Pangwe board zither. Refer ILAM field card C5B7
- Artist(s): Chewa women (Performer) | Composer: Chewa women (Performer) | 1950/05/20 | Central African, Chewa, Chewa, East African, Folk music, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Folk music. "Do not steal". Further details refer to ILAM field card DV9
- Artist(s): Chewa young men (Performer) | Composer: Witimani Phiri (Composer)Chewa young men (Performer) | 1950/05/20 | Bass Drum, Central African, Chewa, Chewa, East African, Folk music, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Phiri,Witimani, singing, ILAM | Folk music sung about the mine workers in Johannesburg. Further details refer to ILAM field card DV6
- Artist(s): Witimani Phiri (Composer/Performer)Others (Performer) | Composer: Witimani Phiri (Composer/Performer)Women (Performer) | 1950-00-00 | Bass Drum, Chewa, dance, Malawi, men, Muganda, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Phiri,Witimani, singing, Southern African, Women ululating, ILAM | Muganda dance performed by men and accompanied on the bass drum. There are women ululating in the background. ILAM field card number is unknown
- Composer: Ulaya Nyoni (Performer) | 1949/09/08 | Bangwe, Chewa, Folk music, Malawi, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Southern African, Ulaya Nyoni, Zomba, ILAM | Wistful song
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