Anthu acilendo

Title: Anthu acilendo
Performer / Recordist: Lucy Nyamangwe,Tonga girls,Nsenga women; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Nsenga (African people); Ngoni (African people); Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi); Tonga (Zambezi people); Field recordings
Description / content note: "Men who travel away from home make their women think about them with longing as they sleep in their 'pyjamas' alone." The word 'pyjama' has been adopted locally as 'Majamara'. In point of fact the women do not sleep in pyjamas at all they say, and it is used as a figure of speech. Chioda dance song for young women with drum rhythm beaten on a box
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Nsenga
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Malawi Chinteche
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR185; 16
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:36
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/10962/184540