Abale ndutani (Field Card)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR087 (1959) , 2 page(s)
Details
- Field of Interest
- World Music
- Copyright Message
- Material sourced from the International Library of African Music. Copyright International Library of African Music.
- Description
- The two people mentioned in the song are imaginary and not actual people. "Ndachinyuka Pitaria Pakuti wakalomba mano Kubwera Bitoni ngati amakoza Galimoto kuseka kwache Ngati nchinu was galimoto." "I will not say any more, Pitoria (sometime pronounced Vitoria by the singers). For you have no teeth left. "Yes," she said, "but you, Bitoni, when you come near you sound like Thomas, you make a noise like a motor car engine. When you laugh you make a noise like a maize mill." Pitoria was an old woman who was married to Bitoni. He told her she was now too old.
- Content Type
- Field notes
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
- Format
- Text
- Sub Genre
- Narrative Songs
- Page Count
- 2
- Series Number
- TR087
- Subject
- World Music, Anthropology, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Africa, Cultural anthropology, África, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Nsanje District, Port Herald District, Lower Shire District, Lower River, Nsanje, Southern Region (Malawi)
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- África, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Nsanje District, Port Herald District, Lower Shire District, Lower River