Pungo yoya

Title: Pungo yoya
Performer / Recordist: Mudzanani, Baranganani; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Venda (African people); Tsonga (African people); Folk songs, Tsonga; Folk music--South Africa; Field recordings
Description / content note: "How did the chief fall down? How did he fall Chief Mbegenihe? How are the girls dancing. Because there are no boys there? The boys are away at work. The best singer of them is in the country. I am happy when I am at Duthuni. When I feel hungry I cry." There are two names among the Venda for this instrument, the Mbira Deza. (Mbira Mutondo is the Venda xylophone). Drinking songs with Mbira, 24 notes.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Venda; Tsonga
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa -- South Africa Sibasa
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1959
Date issued / published: 1959
Identifier: TR193; 7
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:28
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/10962/187761