Anya vindelu tayani uyanga (Be careful, you who wear beards)

Title: Anya vindelu tayani uyanga (Be careful, you who wear beards)
Performer / Recordist: Jefaserase Lungu and 4 Ngoni men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Ngoni (African people); Arts, Malawi; Folk music
Description / content note: There is a belief that those who wear moustaches or beards are given to the practise of witchcraft. And the song warns them to be careful or they will not receive proper burial when they die, but their bodies will be thrown away in the bush. The leader of this song of Ngoni dancers was a much older man than the dancers. Mbanda dance song with leg rattles.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Ngoni
Place of recording: Africa -- Zambia Roan Antelope Mine, Northern Rhodesia
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1959
Date issued / published: 1959
Identifier: TR084; 16
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:03:00
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/10962/154947