Mwali wa Ngwi

Title: Mwali wa Ngwi
Performer / Recordist: Kanyense Muange; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Kamba; Kamba (African people); Folk music--Kenya; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: Mwali is the name for the traditional way of retailing or chanting a legend, and Mwathi is a song. The singer boasts that he alone is the best singer of the district and greets his clever friends who make decorations for the dancers. In his second item he describes also the rifles he carried as a soilder. Praise chant.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Kamba
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Kenya Machakos
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR160; 12
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:52
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/10962/175977