Shombo Binti Hasani = Binti Hasani, you smell

Title: Shombo Binti Hasani = Binti Hasani, you smell
Performer / Recordist: Fataki, Ramadhani; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Folk music--Tanzania; Swahili-speaking peoples; Field recordings
Description / content note: A song of the back streets with its somewhat realistic stark humour at the expense of the slut Binti Hasani. The melody is well known along the East Coast in several different versions. In Dar-es-Salaam it is known as "Pole, mama Kitwana, upia pole mpenzi wei." Humorous song, with 1 Udi and 1 Duff tambourine
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Swahili
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Tanzania Tabora
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR170; 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/10962/179874