Tiye Mlongo (Let us go sister)

Title: Tiye Mlongo (Let us go sister)
Performer / Recordist: Chewa girls; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Songs, Nyanja; Songs, Chewa; Nyanja (African people); Chewa (African people); Folk music; Africa Malawi Vidzumo, Kasungu District, Central Nyasaland
Description / content note: "Let us go sister, let us go. Go to see the lake. They say the water has gone down. Let us go then. Go, go, go." Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
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; 11
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:00:51
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/10962/153406