Banakashi tabalila (Women's tears do not mean a thing)

Title: Banakashi tabalila (Women's tears do not mean a thing)
Performer / Recordist: Isaac Matafwana and Sunkutu; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia); Folk songs, Bemba; Topical songs
Description / content note: "Women's tears do not mean a thing! Their eyes shed tears while they sing with their lips." The form of this song is typically folk in its continued refrain. The situation to which the singer appears to refer, is the funeral dance in which the women sing lustily for the dance, while artificially inducing tears to fall in respect for the dead. Topical song with guitar and bottle
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: bemba
Place of recording: Africa -- Zambia Mufulira
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1957
Date issued / published: 1957
Identifier: TR0023; 10
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:49
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/10962/135152