Mamsadi msadi evamakguva (A fair woman is our woman)

Title: Mamsadi msadi evamakguva (A fair woman is our woman)
Performer / Recordist: Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Folk songs, Sotho; Sotho (African people); Pedi (African people); Folk music
Description / content note: The youngsters sho sang this song represent a growing class of semi-detribalised boys born and brought up in an urban industrialised environment. Their main musical stimulus is a few gramophone records and distributed from Johannesburg and elsewhere and their own original setting of these songs or their imitation of the style does them credit. Party song with guitar.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Northern Sotho; Pedi; Sepedi
Place of recording: Africa -- South Africa Mataffin, Nelspruit, Northern Transvaal
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1958
Date issued / published: 1958
Identifier: TR075; 10
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:42
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/10962/153250