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MR.1970.17.3-A6

Basic facts:

 country   province   region   village   people   group   date   collector 
 Malawi      Rumpi      Tumbuka   Henga   1957   Hugh Tracey 

Language and title:

original language: Tumbuka/Henga
title in original language: Mbaya mwana wane bamutya cimbwe
title in English: Mwaya, my child, is called a hyena

Musical composition:

 type   # performers   instrument (type)   singing voice 
 Group   6   -   MALE 

Characteristics:

general:
function: entertainment
length: 2:40 min.

Performers:

Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi

Fragment:

not available online

Remarks:

"The Sound of Africa Series - Sons d'Afrique Series"
Reference AMA. TR-54
A man who was working away from home in the Copper Mines had a girl sent to him to marry from his own village. But when she arrived she was so ugly that he said: "Marry you, never! You look like a hyena!" So the girl went back and told her mother who rushed out of the house shouting to her husband in great anger: "My child has been called a hyena!" From what the Welfare officers say, it appears that this situation is a common experience in the Copperbelt where girls are frequently sent by their parents to get themselves married to their absent young men in the mines, with the same painful rebuff if not acceptable.


Tempo: help

tempo
average164.44
median164.38
minimum130.43
maximum200
standaard deviation12.7
regression factor-0.09

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