Urwintwari

Title: Urwintwari
Performer / Recordist: Mirimba Francois,Niyondorera Joseph,Gakombe Alexandre; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Music--Rwanda; Tutsi (African people); Hutu (African people); Batwa (African people); Field recordings
Description / content note: This was originally meant to be sung to the harp, but the present words are a football song. The melody is an old folk one, they say, but in its present form suggest institutional adaptation, but no one could confirm this one way or the other. Topical song
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Kinyarwanda
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Rwanda Nyanza
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR181; 4
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:23
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/10962/183596