Maganga kalila zanswelo

Title: Maganga kalila zanswelo
Performer / Recordist: Ngaina Nolo and Mtonya Bota; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Gogo (African people); Songs, Gogo; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "Maganga wishes you good luck." This variety of Mbira, the Ilimba, is unusually large for a pentatonic instrument. The change of position of the microphone from the underside of the Ili,ba to the upper side for the singing of the verses is clearly heard; the rattles being on the reeds themselves. Self delecatative song, with 20 note Ilimba Mbira.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Gogo
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Tanzania Mvumi
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR154; 13
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:42
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/10962/174225