Chyoko

Title: Chyoko
Performer / Recordist: Segbe and Ndongo men and women; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Bangba (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: The singers lament the death of a friend and in so doing demonstrate the fact that Africans celebrate their funerals with dances and apparently gay singing. Sung after a funeral, with harp, likembe and basket rattle.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Ndongo
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Faradje
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR0119; 8
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:52
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/10962/166615