Sebedubedu, (The breastbone)

Title: Sebedubedu, (The breastbone)
Performer / Recordist: Ncha, Frank,Three girls; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Pedi (African people); Folk music--South Africa; Field recordings
Description / content note: My breatbone is painful. I went to my grandmother and told her. I was crying, I had no mother, no father. I sing about my breastbone and I feel better. Chorus: "Hlala mahlalela." Topical song with Autoharp, 2 small drums, made of tins with rubber heads and 1 rattle
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Pedi
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa -- South Africa Leydsdorp
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1960
Date issued / published: 1960
Identifier: TR195; 17
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:42
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/10962/189395