Umuhororo

Title: Umuhororo
Performer / Recordist: Tutsi men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Music--Rwanda; Tutsi (African people); Hutu (African people); Batwa (African people); Field recordings
Description / content note: Composed for the opening of a new mission. Sung in praise of a hill on which a new church was built. The Tutsi singers are all members of a local club for evolues (clerks) etc. called 'La Jeuness du Ruanda'-the youth of Ruanda (Rwanda). The melody is clearly of foreign origin yet a certain indigenous quality remains. Praise 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; 5
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:29
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/10962/183606