Samsoni and Delilah

Title: Samsoni and Delilah
Performer / Recordist: The Coal Brothers (Four young Swazi youth); Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Folk songs, Swazi; Folk music; Africa Eswatini Havelock mine
Description / content note: All penny whistle tunes seem to have but one parent and that is a certain gramophone record which all players attempt to imitate after their own fashion of folk composition, so that now, after a few years of penny whistle music, there is no telling what tune it represents. Dance with 3 penny whistles (whistle flutes) and guitar (manufactured).
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Swati
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1958
Date issued / published: 1958
Identifier: TR072; 1
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:02
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/10962/152733