Wazizwa zitini zindata (What did you hear of the trouble)

Title: Wazizwa zitini zindata (What did you hear of the trouble)
Performer / Recordist: Elderly men of Chief Kachere; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Ngoni (African people); Arts, Malawi; Folk music; Africa Malawi Dedza and Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland
Description / content note: An old regimental song of the Ngoni fighting men during the days when they first came up into Nyasaland during the 19th century. The fighting men were forbidden to marry early in Nguni tribes and this perhaps reflects the same regulation. "What did you hear about the wife of that man? Leave those scandals alone." Regimental song.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Ngoni
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1959
Date issued / published: 1959
Identifier: TR084; 6
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:21
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/10962/154856