Owaha o Lomwe (When you come from Lomwe)

Title: Owaha o Lomwe (When you come from Lomwe)
Performer / Recordist: Sitoni Maulidi and Dailoni Likluva; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Songs, Chewa; Songs, Nyanja; Nyanja (African people); Chewa (African people); Folk music; Africa Malawi Dedza
Description / content note: This strange song is sung about three months after the burial, they say. "You befoul yourself. When you came from Lomwe, you had no plate. You met me, your friend, but have turned against me." Obseques after death, with clapping.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Nyanja; Chewa
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1958
Date issued / published: 1958
Identifier: TR098; 10
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:41
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/10962/160652