Ambikanire une (Listen to me)

Title: Ambikanire une (Listen to me)
Performer / Recordist: Wodwala Seleman and 5 Yao men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Yao (African people); Arts, Malawi; Folk music; Africa Malawi Salima, Central Nyasaland
Description / content note: The song started in Yao and ended in Chewa. A song sung by the boys when they are alone in the veld after their circumcission to keep away lions at night. (The part of the song so sung by the initiates is in Arabic). Initiation of Boys.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Yao
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1958
Date issued / published: 1958
Identifier: TR083; 1
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:05
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/10962/154676