Kinyakinya

Title: Kinyakinya
Performer / Recordist: Melany Mewarali with Meru men and women; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Chaga (African people) -- Music; Meru (African people) -- Music; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: Hail Chief. Rule your children well in the new year as you have done in the past. Our chief wears shoes and a tie. It is a bad man who makes love to a woman only under cover of darkness." A very simple melody sung at the end of the year. Party song with Kisengele bell
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; 8
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:51
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/10962/173932