Naba baNgoni bagwaza ngomkhonto (The Ngoni fight with spears)

Item

Title
Naba baNgoni bagwaza ngomkhonto (The Ngoni fight with spears)
Performer / Recordist
Description / content note
This item was recorded in the Eastern Transvaal where the performers had come to work on a citrus estate. In spite of over a century of osolation from the main Ngoni peoples, these Ngoni of Nyasaland still retain in their music, dancing and customs, the traits of their distant relatives in the South. Musically it is interesting to note that many Ngoni seem to be able to sing in either the pentatonic modes of the Zulu groups or adopt the heptatonic modes of their mother's people who have married into the Ngoni clans. Ngoma wedding song with stamping and hand clapping.
Language
Publisher
International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded
Date issued / published
1958
Identifier
TR099
9
Is Format Of
Analog reel item
Duration (time)
00:01:58
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

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