Kemfumye shukurani mtemi mpya

Title: Kemfumye shukurani mtemi mpya
Performer / Recordist: Masudi Bini Amani with Nyamwezi women; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Nyamwezi (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: A song sung at the installation of Nyamwezi chiefs, wishing them happiness. Itetemia, the village where Chief Fundikira has his head-quaters, is the famous site of David Livinstone's tembe, the long, low, flat roofed house where he lived for a year, where he said goodbye to Stanley and from which he set out on his last jourbey to die near Lake Bangweulu. Song at the installation of Chiefs, with 3 conical laced drums beaten by sticks and 1 conical pegged drum beaten by hand.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Nyamwezi
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Tanzania Itetemia
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR149; 3
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:45
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/10962/173134