Chawaiye-chawaiye (Married-married)

Title: Chawaiye-chawaiye (Married-married)
Performer / Recordist: Three elderly women; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Arts, Malawi; Songs, Nyanja; Nyanja (African people); Folk music; Africa Malawi Njolomole, Ncheu
Description / content note: A man sings happily that the libolo of cattle is now in his hands, the bride price paid over to him for his daughter Lili by his new son-in-law. "My cattle, I am now lucky, I have now got the cattle with their heads facing towards my place. Oyayo !" Wedding song.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Nyanja; Chewa; Chichewa
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1958
Date issued / published: 1958
Identifier: TR086; 10
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:03
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/10962/155584