Mwakumajangosha

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Title: Mwakumajangosha
Performer / Recordist: Kitula Bini Kinongu with Sukuma men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Nyamwezi (African people); Sukuma (African people); Folk songs, Sukuma; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "They have tried all day to mark his face, but failed. My child Kilumba is still too young." The cutting of cicatrices on the face is accompanied by songs such as these, and by festivities and dancing. There is a local breed of fowls which have no feathers on their necks and very red skin. The song refers to a certain diviner who used to smear his face and neck with red earth. The people of the village can be heard chatting and laughing during the song, and a bird can be heard in the background of the second song. Ucheyeki song for cutting cicatrices.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Nyamwezi
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Tanzania Kesesa
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR150; 10
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:26
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/10962/173351

Item sets: Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series

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