Wamurwe

Title: Wamurwe
Performer / Recordist: Waliaula, Maunda; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Bukusu (African people); Folk music--Kenya; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: This song is about a one man raid by Wabomba in order to get cattle for himself. He stole them from Mamurwe who was left with none. It was explained by the singers that poor Wabomba had no milk before his raid on Mamurwe and that his folk are cattle loving people. No one, it seems, wasted any sympathy on the loser. Personal feud, with 2 Litungu 7 string lyres, and 1 Luhingele long inverted bowl (-10.151-).
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Bukusu
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Kenya Malakasi
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR162; 2
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/10962/176508