Mongu

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Title: Mongu
Performer / Recordist: Mbuti men, women and children; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Songs, Swahili; Mbuti (African people); Swahili-speaking peoples; Pygmies; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: The local popular name for these Pygmies is "Batikitiki". Like other groups of pygmies they are very much at the mercy of the Bantu tribes who live outside on the edges of their portion of the Ituri forest. They exchange meat and honey from the forest for grain and other food stuff, but as often as not are robbed of their efforts by exploiting Africans. The musical instruments used by these Pygmies are those borrowed from teh Bantu outside the forest. Drums, especially, would be too heavy and cumbersome for the Pygmies to carry into the forest with them, or keep in their flimsy camps. Party song with 2 conical, laced drums and 1 basket rattle.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Congo Swahili
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR0125; 10
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:03:02
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/10962/168232

Item sets: Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series

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