Ngula kidunda

Title: Ngula kidunda
Performer / Recordist: Pancras Mkwawa and Anselm P. Mkwawa; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Chaga (African people); Hehe (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "People should not visit their friends without cause as Mgelimembe does." It appears this man Mgelimembe was always turning up at his friend's houses when it would have been better had he stayed away. This is only part of the musical ruminations of the song. The players eighteen year old son sits beside his father and provides the rhythmic tapping with his fingernails on the zithers large gourd resonator. Topical song, with Ligombo 6 string trough zither and rhythmic tapping.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Hehe
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Tanzania Iringa
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR156; 9
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:54
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/10962/174834