Ananga kwa amai ndikanenaiyi (My children, what shall I say to my mother)

Title: Ananga kwa amai ndikanenaiyi (My children, what shall I say to my mother)
Performer / Recordist: Six elderly women; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Arts, Malawi; Songs, Nyanja; Nyanja (African people); Folk music; Africa Malawi Tengani, Port Herald
Description / content note: There were certain children of this village who were killed by a lion on their way home and the event was perpetuated in song by the girl who had to break the news to their mother. The players shake their rattles in unison until one gives the sign for the routine to begin. When they complete it and return to the beginning of the verse again. One woman was clapping. Chitsukulumwe dance with gourd rattles and clapping.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Nyanja; Mang'anja
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1958
Date issued / published: 1958
Identifier: TR087; 10
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:07
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/10962/155757