Chitima

Title: Chitima
Performer / Recordist: Muchabaiwa and two others; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Shona (African people); Folk music--Zimbabwe; Field recordings
Description / content note: Onomatopoeic words or phrases describing the sounds of a train. "Chuma changu chakapera nemahuri." All my possessions (literally my beads) have been wasted on girls. The performer of the mouth bow sometimes resonates the harmonics out of the side of the mouth and sometimes whistles without taking the bow from his mouth. Self delectative song, with Chipendani musical bow, mouth resonated
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Shona
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Zimbabwe; Africa Zimbabwe Marandellas
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1951
Date issued / published: 1951
Identifier: TR170; 7
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:28
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/10962/180646