Joki rakafa (Joki is dead)

Title: Joki rakafa (Joki is dead)
Performer / Recordist: Group of 5 Karanga men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Folk music--Zimbabwe; Karanga (African people); Folk songs, Shona; Folk music; Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Gutu District, Southern Rhodesia
Description / content note: The 'Bakumba' is a form of the Shangara dance. Joki, it seems, got married but his wife left him. So he went and asked his father-in-law to return the lobola but the father-in-law refused, so Joki went and killed himself by cutting his own throat. Bakumba party dance, with 2 drums and rattle.
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; 5
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:03:04
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/10962/154292