Biya

Title: Biya
Performer / Recordist: Gemba and Mbati soilders; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Bangba (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "You are my only child, if you die I shall be buried with you." These hefty young soilders sing a lullaby used by their women folk at home, in the north western corner of the Congo which forms the boundary between the Congo and old French Wquatorial Africa. Lullaby with hand clapping.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Mbati
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Libenge
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR0119; 22
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:32
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/10962/166743