Mbakulumba, Mbiriyade, Amai mwanena kululuka

Title: Mbakulumba, Mbiriyade, Amai mwanena kululuka
Performer / Recordist: Girls of the village of Chief Mware; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Songs, Tumbuka; Tumbuka (African people); Songs, Chewa; Chewa (African people); Field recordings
Description / content note: Children's poems, songs from stories and counting rhymes are among the best loved child lore of the countryside. The effect of English upon the local language can be heard in the counting rhyme "kana wani" (one), "Kana yu" (two) instead of Kana Moji, kana mbiri. Verse from a story and a counting rhyme.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Tumbuka; Chewa; Chichewa; Nyanja
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Malawi Kasungu
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR190; 8
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:18
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/10962/186344