Nabongo shalo shahuka

Title: Nabongo shalo shahuka
Performer / Recordist: Charles Wanga with Wanga men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Wanga (African people); Folk music--Kenya; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: Wanga is well known as a singer and entertainer. He composed this song when the famous old chief Mumia was in his last illness before he died in 1949. Lament with Tsindeche leg bells (-12.55-) and clapping.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Wanga
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Kenya Nyanza
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR161; 13
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:38
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/10962/176417