A Tembo

Title: A Tembo
Performer / Recordist: Taines Chirwa,Nancy Luhana,Tumbuka girls; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Songs, Tumbuka; Tumbuka (African people); Field recordings
Description / content note: The grain for the midday meal at this mission is ground by machine, but for the evening meal it is still done by the girls in a mortar. They say the mortar meal is more tasty. "The old woman runs down the hill to help pound." 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 Mzimba
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR188; 15
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:17
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/10962/185177