Ngoma yababa kutamba nayo (Father's music for dancing with the spirits)

Title: Ngoma yababa kutamba nayo (Father's music for dancing with the spirits)
Performer / Recordist: Stephen Runeso Gumbo; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Folk music--Zimbabwe; Karanga (African people); Folk songs, Shona; Folk music; Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia
Description / content note: The skit starts with a Mashawi song for calling the 'Midzimu' (an incorrect kind of song) then says, "No, thats no use, I would better try a christian hymn." He tries and successively discards several chritian hymns of several denominations. The implication of the skit is that you cannot call up the ancestral spirits with foreign rites. Humorous song with Kalimba (mbira).
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Shona; Karanga
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1958
Date issued / published: 1958
Identifier: TR081; 1
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:05:41
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/10962/154256