Muzamaelo wa mahule

Title: Muzamaelo wa mahule
Performer / Recordist: Sons of Barotseland Patriotic Society Choir; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Lozi (African people); Bemba (African people); Folk songs, Bemba; Field recordings
Description / content note: A song in which the women of easy virture are held up as a laughing stock in this way the community hopes to discourage them. The Lozi are well known for their morality songs which are sung for the express purpose of creating social solidarity. On account of the rain outside, the item was recorded inside the welfare hall thus giving it unwarrented and unsuitable reverberation for a folk song. Morality song with clapping
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Lozi; Bemba
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa -- Zambia Barotseland
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR182; 3
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:27
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/10962/183671