Ajuba

Title: Ajuba
Performer / Recordist: Buja soilders of the Force Publique; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Ngala (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: An attractive dance by young soilders whose tribe has the local reputation of being amongst the most handsome in the Congo. Their home district is at the most northerly part of the great bend in the Congo river where it is already several miles wide. Ajuba dance, with 2 bass drums, rattle and hand clapping.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Mbangala
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Bumba
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR0129; 8
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:53
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/10962/169130