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Dance and topical songs from the Tonga of Malawi.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Series:
- Smithsonian Global Sound.
- Language:
- Tonga (Nyasa)
- Subjects (All):
- Folk music--Malawi.
- Folk music.
- Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa)--Malawi.
- Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa).
- Tumbuka (African people)--Music.
- Tumbuka (African people).
- Malawi.
- Genre:
- Folk music.
- Field recordings.
- Music.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (8 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1957.
- Language Note:
- Sung in Tonga (Nyasa).
- Contents:
- Chani zangaria
- Anyangwila yanga pano-kwawo
- Pikifoti Chilwa.
- Notes:
- Streaming audio files.
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 03, 2016).
- In 1957, Hugh Tracey recorded these songs by Tongan people from the Chinteche District of Northern Nyasaland, now called Malawi. The recordings were made in mining compounds in what is now Malawi and Zambia (Tracey 1973).
- Other Format:
- Original cat. no.: ILAMTR037A
- OCLC:
- 950026554
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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