Umushuma

Title: Umushuma
Performer / Recordist: Karuandila, Eliasi; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Music--Uganda; Haya (African people); Nyoro (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: The story of a man who wanted to stop thieves from coming to his house and taking all his belongings, He bargained with a snake to come to his house and bite the thieves. The snake, however, only managed to destroy all twenty of his children and relations and killed the man himself in the end. The moral was plain. Story with song.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Nyoro; Haya
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR144; 15
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:18
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/10962/172069