Imbo Kunyangwa

Title: Imbo Kunyangwa
Performer / Recordist: Safare Dewu; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Bangba (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "I am afraid of being beaten." The instrument is the 5 stringed Bonguma horizontal, arched harp, the bowl is made of wooden trough. The performer returned his instrument between the first and second song. The second tuning is:- 356, 328, 288, 256, 208. Topical song with harp.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Balendu
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Djugu
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR0119; 17
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:28
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/10962/166698