Tubuke kukaya

Title: Tubuke kukaya
Performer / Recordist: Kipalata, Emele; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people); Zaramo (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "Good day, teacher, good day, mother, Let us go home." The tuning of the instrument was:- 356, 328, 312, 284, 252, 212, 178, 126. Although this tune has the same title as one played by Mwanjila they appear to bear little melodic relationship to each other. Nostalgic song with 8 note Limba (Mbira).
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Nyakyusa; Zaramo
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Tanzania Kiwira
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR158; 8
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:26
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/10962/175300