Saiya Mikamba

Title: Saiya Mikamba
Performer / Recordist: Yuspina Gadwin with Ghaga girls; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Chaga (African people); Songs, Gogo; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "Saiya Mikamba is sick." Marangu is the small village on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. The first of these songs may not be an authentic Chaga song, but is rather similiar to songs in the schools. Temo dance song for girls with stamping and bass drums, laced, played with sticks, (-14.05303-).
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Gogo
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Tanzania Marangu
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR155; 9
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:12
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/10962/174318