Chemirocha I

Title: Chemirocha I
Performer / Recordist: Bekyibei Arap Mosonick with Cherwo Arap Korogorem; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Kipsigis (African people); Folk music--Kenya; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: The main theme of this song is affection for the Kipsigis country. He also asks 'why the white men should have taken over the country' which incidentally they themselves took from others in the past. He comes, he says, from the Sotik nearby. The name 'Chemirocha' is their pronounciation of 'Jimmy Rodgers' whose gramophone records were the first to be heard in the district. It is now synonymous for anything strange or new. Praise song with Chepkong 6 string bowl lyre.
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; 15
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/10962/177011