Musirankondo

Title: Musirankondo
Performer / Recordist: Kurusani with Soga men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Music--Uganda; Soga (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "Some young women are so beautiful we cannot do without them. We are very proud to be playing our Budongo before the Kyabazinga, the Great." The Kyabazinga is the head of the Soga people, equivalent to the Mukama of Bunyoro or the Mugabe of Ankole. This tune is also played by the Ganda on the lyre and has been transposed onto the Budongo by the Soga who are singing in Ganda. Topical song with Budongo Likembe and Nsaasi flat tin rattle (-12.54-).
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Soga
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Uganda Bugabula
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR141; 10
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:46
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/10962/171465