Safari ya Msanga-Tifu

Title: Safari ya Msanga-Tifu
Performer / Recordist: Kanga Mayele with Giryama men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Giryama (African people); Folk music--Kenya; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "I was so much in love that I found myself in Msanga-Tifu, where my girl lives, without knowing how I had got there." The Msego dance is most attractive to watch and the ingenuity of the rhythm can be guessed from the sound of the dancers in this recording. Msego dance song for men and women with Kayamba raft rattles and clapping (-12.03-).
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Giryama
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Kenya Malindi
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR162; 11
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:40
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/10962/176612