Nakhona Singianga Giba I

Title: Nakhona Singianga Giba I
Performer / Recordist: Group of young Swazi men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Folk songs, Swazi; Folk music; Africa Eswatini Lobamba, Mbabane
Description / content note: A song for running and for walking. The same song is done in two styles. A young men do this style of chanting when loping from one village to another. Their songs change each year, they say, but the style of performance remains. It is part of the young men's set of dances also. "We are as many as those of Giba. We (the people of Sobhuza). Chant for running and walking.
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: TR073; 4
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:21
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/10962/152965