Zuwa woye

Title: Zuwa woye
Performer / Recordist: Manyika Highlanders (group of singers at St. Augustine's Mission, Penhalonga); Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Shona (African people); Folk music--Zimbabwe; Field recordings
Description / content note: "The sun, the sun! The drumming pleases the people." A threshing song of a style heard in most Shona villages in the late autumn. As it was raining at the time it was recorded inside one of the school rooms, the singers on the floor in imitation of the sound of threshing. Threshing song.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Shona
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Zimbabwe; Africa Zimbabwe Mutasa
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1951
Date issued / published: 1951
Identifier: TR170; 13
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:31
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/10962/180708