Mama Yangu

Title: Mama Yangu
Performer / Recordist: Mudumbu; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Songs, Swahili; Bira (African people); Swahili-speaking peoples; Pygmies; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: A song about his mother, his country and people. Swahili words are interspersed with the Buudu as Swahili has rapidly become the 'lingua franca' for this part of the Congo having been first introduced by the Arabs and now officially in schools, business and administration. Topical song with Likembe (Mbira).
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Bira
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombe
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR0126; 10
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:54
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/10962/168434