Curative song

Title: Curative song
Performer / Recordist: Mbuti men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Songs, Swahili; Mbuti (African people); Swahili-speaking peoples; Pygmies; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: This song is performed when a Pygmy is ill in order to help him recover. They do not believe in foreign medicine and rarely bring their people out of the forest to hospital. Curative song.
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; 18
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:18
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/10962/168304