Godo (Bones)

Title: Godo (Bones)
Performer / Recordist: Esteri Shumba and 4 Karanga women; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Folk music--Zimbabwe; Karanga (African people); Folk songs, Shona; Folk music; Africa Zimbabwe Takawarasha, Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia
Description / content note: The singer is married to a chief. She goes around asking her fellow wives what part of the animal they received the last time a beast was killed. One says "We're all in the same bag, whats the good of being married to a chief? When he gives all the best meat to his favourite wife and only gives us bone?"
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: TR082; 18
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:46
File format: wav
Sample Rate: 15 ips reel
Provenance: 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/10962/154649