Wasukula sakwatidwa (Before she is old enough)

Title: Wasukula sakwatidwa (Before she is old enough)
Performer / Recordist: Young girls and four drummers; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Songs, Nyanja; Nyanja (African people); Folk music; Africa Malawi Mpatsa
Description / content note: "If a girl is not yet a maiden she cannot marry." As the dance progressed the castor oil paste on the bass drum gradually began to shake off the head with the intense percussive movement." Likhuba dance with eight tuned 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: TR093; 2
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:03:38
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/10962/157910