Awa simene (Field Card)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR084 (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
- Sung in the old Ngoni style. The Chief calls out towards the end of the song that his people are the ones who came from the Swazi, down South (with the Gomani section of the Ngoni). This section migrated from Natal either just before or during the Shaka wars. "Some had brought fighting men to terrify me, but could do nothing. But here we still live and you could do nothing to us."
- Content Type
- Field notes
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
- Format
- Text
- Sub Genre
- Song
- Page Count
- 2
- Series Number
- TR084
- Subject
- World Music, Anthropology, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Africa, Cultural anthropology, África, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Ntcheu District, Ncheu, Ncheu District, Ntcheu, Central Region (Malawi), Swati
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- África, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Ntcheu District, Ncheu, Ncheu District