Amyindre dobuzindrine

Title: Amyindre dobuzindrine
Performer / Recordist: Njenje abd Tipoyi carriers; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Mangbetu; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "I shall be all alone, when I lie in the grave." The theme of death is common in songs of this part of the Congo and also in Uganda. Until recently the Medje were notorious for cannibalism. Strangers, it is said, had little chance of emerging from the Medje palm forests alive or enjoying a lonely grave. Tipoyi carrying song with basket rattle.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Mangbetu
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Medje
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR0120; 14
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:34
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/10962/166870