Wesakombe

Title: Wesakombe
Performer / Recordist: Mulagha, Aston,Henga boys; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Songs, Tumbuka; Tumbuka (African people); Field recordings
Description / content note: The leader was a Lambya but the rest of his friends were Henga. The song was sung in the Lambya dialect of Tumbuka. The foreign influence of school music is clearly discerned in this song which no doubt had a folk origin but is now distorted by extraneous harmony. A simple European style of clapping. Chikweta dance for boys and girls with clapping
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Tumbuka
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Malawi Karonga
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR189; 15
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:00:56
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/10962/185516