Luibiri

Title: Luibiri
Performer / Recordist: Benet Lolubo with Meru men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Chaga (African people) -- Music; Meru (African people) -- Music; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "When we fought the Masai we beat them. We captured their women and their cattle. We defeated these 'women'. At home again, we slaughtered some of the cattle and gave half the meat to our chief. Before the white men came we had plenty but they have taken our country." So sing the Meru. But history is not quite so partisan. The scraping noise at the begining of the item is the rubbing of the spears on the bound part of the shield. Fighting song with Kisengele bells.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Meru
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Tanzania Arusha
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR153; 7
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:24
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/10962/173923