Ndayamba dale (I start, darling)

Title: Ndayamba dale (I start, darling)
Performer / Recordist: Young girls and 5 drummers; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Arts, Malawi; Songs, Nyanja; Nyanja (African people); Folk music; Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Fort Herald
Description / content note: A certain girl was complaining about not having her own house, so her young man then promised to start building it so that they could get married. The immense percussive sound of the nine drums completely drowns the voices of the girls only a few yards away. Likhuba dance with 9 drums.
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: TR088; 8
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:30
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/10962/155874