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  1. Composer: Tumbuka women and girls(Performer) | 1950/05/23 | Clapping, Drum, Folk music, Henga, Indigenous music, Initiation song, Kasungu, Malawi, Nyasaland, Southern African, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, ILAM | Uzamba dance song -initiation song with two goblet drums and clapping. Further details refer ILAM field card (DY3)
  2. Artist(s): Tumbuka men (Performer) | Composer: Tumbuka women (Performer) | 1950/05/23 | Folk music, Henga, Indigenous music, Kasungu, Malawi, mortar, Nyasaland, pestle, Pounding song, Southern African, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, ILAM | Pounding song with mortar and pestles. Further details refer ILAM field card (D2G12)Translated English title - "All this pounding for nothing." Further details refer ILAM field card (DY9)
  3. Artist(s): Tumbuka men (Performer) | Composer: Tumbuka women (Performer) | 1950/05/23 | Folk music, Henga, Indigenous music, Kasungu, Malawi, mortar, Nyasaland, pestle, Pounding song, Southern African, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, ILAM | Pounding song with mortar and two pestles. Further details refer ILAM field card (DY9)
  4. Artist(s): Tumbuka men (Background) | Composer: Tumbuka women (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/05/23 | East African, Folk music, Henga, Indigenous music, Kasungu, Malawi, Mortar and two pestles, Nyasaland, Pounding song, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. DY-9.
  5. Artist(s): Tumbuka girls (Performer) | Composer: Taines Chirwa (Performer)Mwenele Kaunda (Performer)Nancy Luhana (Performer) | 1950/05/31 | Chirwa,Taines, Folk music, Henga, Indigenous music, Kaunda,Mwenela, Luhana,Nancy, Malawi, mortar, Mzimba, Nyasaland, pestle, Pounding song, Southern African, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, ILAM | Pounding song with mortar and pestles. Further details refer ILAM field card (D2G11)
  6. Artist(s): Young girls (Performer)James Chirwa (Performer)Dandy Boys (Performer)Mwerela Kaunda (Performer) | Composer: Young girls (Performer)James Chirwa (Performer)Mwenela Kaunda (Performer)Dandy Boys (Performer) | 1950-00-00 | Call and response, Chirwa,James, Dandy Boys, Drum, Heya, Kaunda,Mwenela, Malawi, Nyasaland, singing, Song, Southern African, traditional, Tumbuka, Young girls, ILAM | Song performed by young girls who are accompanied by the beats on the mortar and pestle. The voices of the singers appear not to be those of the names mentioned on the record label. ILAM field card is unknown
  7. Artist(s): Tumbuka men and women | Composer: Lobati Chimupeni (Performer) | 1949/08/05 | Folk song, Kamanga, Lobati Chimupeni, Nkana, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, Zambia, ILAM | Drinking song
  8. Composer: Tumbuka Singers (Performer)L. Chimupeni (Leader)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Chimupeni,L., Clapping, Drinking song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kamanga, Nkana, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, Zambia, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3475.
  9. Composer: Mkandawile, F (Performer)Fumba Mkandawile (Performer)Mkandawile, F L(Composer)Lundazi Fumba Mkandawile (Composer) | 1949/08/24 | Bangwe String, Henga, Humorous, Lusaka, Mkandawile,Fumba Lundazi, Northern Rhodesia, Song, Southern African, Tumbuka, Zambia, ILAM | Humorous song accompanied by Bangwe. Translated English title - "I hate my cousin". Further details refer ILAM field card no. C4Q20.
  10. Composer: Nezala Shonga (Composer/Performer) | 1950/05/26 | Bango, Board zither, Henga, Indigenous music, Malawi, Mzimba, Nezala Shonga, Nyasaland, Southern African, Topical song, Tumbuka, ILAM | Translation: Let me feed the hungry bird. Further details refer ILAM fieldcard D2A11.

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