Pfeni nengoma

Title: Pfeni nengoma
Performer / Recordist: Muchaenda Sigauke and Ndau men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Folk music--Zimbabwe; Shona (African people); Field recordings
Description / content note: There was a man who had the brilliant idea of putting a pole across the path by which a baboon entered his fields, and a drum on the far side. The baboon leaping over the pole landed on the drum and did a back somersault over the pole again. The sound so delighted the baboon that he went on leaning and back somersaulting until he died of exhaustion. Story with song.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Shona
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Zimbabwe Melsetter
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1951
Date issued / published: 1951
Identifier: TR176; 1
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:52
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/10962/181688