Mangai

Title: Mangai
Performer / Recordist: Chibanda and Kasena with 7 Kanyoka men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Topical songs; Instrumental music; Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kandakanda
Description / content note: "The Kanyoka captured the chief of the Kasai people on the other side of the river, cut off his head, put it in a pot of beer and drank the beer." It is not certain from the context to which tribal wars this incident refers, if any. It may well be a form of boasting or braggadocio. Topical song with 2 guitars, 3 basket rattles and 1 bottle.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Kanyoka
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1957
Date issued / published: 1957
Identifier: TR0020; 5
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:51
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/10962/134487