Ugonile ndoma

Title: Ugonile ndoma
Performer / Recordist: Kipalata, Emele; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people); Zaramo (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: The Limba here is decorated with red beads which are strung across the vibrating notes and perform the same buzzing function as attached shells or pieces of metal elsewhere. The instrument was also decorated with the hair of a colobus monkey. The song was in praise of his village chief. Praise 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; 9
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:15
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/10962/175309