Kumaji kumailo-mailo

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Title: Kumaji kumailo-mailo
Performer / Recordist: Boys at Dedza Secondary School; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa); Songs, Chewa; Chewa (African people); Songs, Tumbuka; Tumbuka (African people); Musical instruments; Field recordings
Description / content note: There was a man who had a wife and he killed a certain woman who had a child and so his wife adopted the baby. It was the child who is supposed to be singing this song. The child was trying to remember her mother and was thinking how she could have been brought up by her own mother. The mother was killed because of a dispute over an old cow. She was carelessly looked by her stepmother. Ntano story song
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Tumbuka; Chewa; Chichewa; Nyanja; Tonga (Nyasa)
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Malawi Mzimba
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1958
Date issued / published: 1958
Identifier: TR187; 8
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:24
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/10962/184875

Item sets: Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series

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