Wezulu walila, The whistle has blown at the river Mazoe

Title: Wezulu walila, The whistle has blown at the river Mazoe
Performer / Recordist: Boys of 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: This song was sung, they say, when the white man first came to their country at the turn of the century. Unlike the local people they used whistle to give words of command and it was a novelity at the time, and so found its way into folk song. Dance song for Ngoma with clapping
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; 17
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:22
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/10962/184958