Awoli a legimenti

Title: Awoli a legimenti
Performer / Recordist: Tumbuka women; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Songs, Tumbuka; Tumbuka (African people); Field recordings
Description / content note: "Soilders wives, take care of your clothes, you may have to dispose of some of them to buy yourselves food." A poignant little song which reflects the experience of war wives (1939-45). It has an attractive melody in the chorus. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Tumbuka
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Malawi Kasungu
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR188; 11
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:30
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/10962/185141