Jawalome munda

Title: Jawalome munda
Performer / Recordist: Nyamuula Mtani with Jita men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Kwaya (African people); Jita (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: The words of such a song sung to the Cheche lute are usually impromptu and frequently meaningless. The words of the dance are broadly translated, "Let them speak about you, let them have their say." The Kwaya/Jita people live on the South East of the Lake Victoria Nyanza and are neighbours of the Sukuma to South. Ndongo dance songs for men and women, with Cheche 1 string bowed lute.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Kwaya; Jita
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Tanzania
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR157; 16
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:40
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/10962/175085