International Library of African Music

Chebusit

Item

Title

Chebusit

Performer / Recordist

Kinutit Arap Ngasura

Tracey, Hugh

Subject

Kipsigis (African people)

Folk music--Kenya

Folk music

Field recordings

Description / content note

The solo singer singing in falsetto praises his country and many of its desirable places. He mentions among others the administrative centre at Kericho, some 25 miles away, which he says is ;full of words' referring to the information service supplied to the country by the office of the district commissioner. This wishbone shaped frame lyre is held onto the top of an empty 4 gallon parafin tin. At the end of his song the lyre slipped off its resonator. Praise song with Kibugandet 5 string wish bone lyre (-10.6405 x 5-) resonated on a parafing tin.

Type / form

sound recordings

field recordings

sound recording-musical

Language

Kipsigis

Place of recording

Africa, Sub-Saharan

Africa Kenya Kapkatet

Publisher

International Library of African Music (ILAM)

Date recorded

1950

Date issued / published

1950

Identifier

TR164

14

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/${Handle}

Item sets

Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series