Howe

Title: Howe
Performer / Recordist: Bodwa men and women; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Kusu (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: Buta frim where this dance song emanates, is on the northern edge of the great tropical forest belt which characterises the central districts of the Congo. The Bobwa people are Bantu but have adopted several characteristics of their Sudanic neighbours, the Zande. Bodwa dance with one wooden slit drum, two cylindrical cross-laced drums, metal hand bell and rattles.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Mangbetu
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR0128; 16
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:57
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/10962/169009