Waikova

Title: Waikova
Performer / Recordist: Nasuti Social Club; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Music--Uganda; Soga (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: Waikova is a beautiful and highly coloured bird, they explained, but is more likely to be the common crow. A Budongo tune of this name was also recorded at Jinja, two years later. Sets of these instruments are played by a number of young men together. For over 400 years this type of music has facinated Africans and possibly for far longer. Topical song, with 8 Budongo Likembe and 1 flat Nsaasi tin rattle (12.54-)
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Soga
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Uganda Iganga
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR141; 7
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:32
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/10962/171438