International Library of African Music

Bilumbu

Item

Title

Bilumbu

Performer / Recordist

Luba/Hemba men and women

Tracey, Hugh

Subject

Folk music--Africa

Songs, Luba-Lulua

Luba (African people)

Field recordings

Description / content note

The singers of this item had come north, down the Lualaba river ans were over 400 miles from their home in Kongolo, near the junction of the Lualaba with its tributory which drains the overflow flood waters from Lake Tanganyika. This simple repetitive song is similar to many others associated with divination - the repititions in themselves exercising a kind of hypnotic effect suited to teh occassion. Song and dance for herbalist or diviner, with 2 goblet drums, with mirlitons and closed, and rattles (-12.54-)

Type / form

sound recordings

field recordings

sound recording-musical

Language

Luba

Place of recording

Africa, Sub-Saharan

Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kongolo

Publisher

International Library of African Music (ILAM)

Date recorded

1952

Date issued / published

1952

Identifier

TR183

11

Is Format Of

Analog reel item

Duration (time)

00:02:48

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/10962/183977

Item sets

Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series