Tingana mukon'wana

Title: Tingana mukon'wana
Performer / Recordist: o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez,Gomez, F; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Topical song; Guitar
Description / content note: "At your home you give a person to the spirit Sikwembo. But at my house we only give a chicken to Sikwembo. Then we kill a second chicken and cook sadza porridge so that the spirit's fowl may come and eat both the sadza and the cooked fowl." The song refers to an argument between a man and wife and the diviner through whom the spirit is approached. One of four topical songs with guitar.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Tonga
Place of recording: Africa -- Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1955
Date issued / published: 1955
Identifier: TR004; 3
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:44
File format: wav
Sample Rate: 15 ips reel
Digitisation (original): 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo; Studer B67 Recorder; Sound Forge V.6
Rights Holder: International Library of African Music
License: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Access Rights: Public
Is Part Of: ILAM Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series
Format: audio/mp3
Genre: field recordings
handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132154