Nigwa milango jayu hilima

Title: Nigwa milango jayu hilima
Performer / Recordist: Ernest Pole with Sukuma men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Nyamwezi (African people); Sukuma (African people); Folk songs, Sukuma; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "I have heard the chief's dance, Milango! Let's go and join the dance." The Puba dance is done in teams. The girls in two lines and the boys in two lines behind them. They move to and fro in file and leap into the air in time with the rhythm of the dance music. Puba dance song for men and women with clapping.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Nyamwezi; Sukuma
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Tanzania Shinyanga
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR151; 10
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:39
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/10962/173513