Nonkala (The crab)

Title: Nonkala (The crab)
Performer / Recordist: Jury Mpelho; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Folk songs, Xhosa
Description / content note: The crab, being a water animal, is this case, a river crab, is being addressed as a diviner. The Xhosa believe their ancestral spirits inhabit streams. Topical song with dance band including saxaphone, double bass, guitar and drum
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Xhosa
Place of recording: Africa -- South Africa Grahamstown
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1957
Date issued / published: 1957
Identifier: TR027; 6
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:47
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/10962/135934