Kupanda mlongo nkusauka (To be without a sister is to be without a home)

Title: Kupanda mlongo nkusauka (To be without a sister is to be without a home)
Performer / Recordist: Thawani Mwale; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Songs, Nyanja; Songs, Chewa; Nyanja (African people); Chewa (African people); Folk music; Africa Malawi Mulvi, Salima District, Central Nyasaland
Description / content note: In a matrilocal society a man without sisters would have no home belonging to his own family after his parents died. "To be without a sister is to have trouble. People who have sisters mock you." Initiation song with Bangwe board.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Nyanja; Chewa; Chichewa
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1958
Date issued / published: 1958
Identifier: TR076; 8
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:25
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/10962/153374