Tambalalu (Stretch your legs)

Title: Tambalalu (Stretch your legs)
Performer / Recordist: M. Masowo and 3 Chewa lads; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Songs, Nyanja; Songs, Chewa; Nyanja (African people); Chewa (African people); Folk music; Africa Malawi Kota Kota, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland
Description / content note: A song set in a small sketch reflecting a local scene of the fields and the feeding of the workers. "Stretch out your legs (so that a child can sit on your lap). Daughter-in-law, cook food for those in the garden to eat. It makes you feel hungry out in the field. Fold yours legs again and take your ease (as you haave eaten)." Topical song.
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: TR077; 20
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:31
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/10962/153721