Mwamwangu wotala achikene

Title: Mwamwangu wotala achikene
Performer / Recordist: Elena Josio,Chopi women; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Music--Mozambique; Folk songs, Chopi; Chopi (African people); Field recordings
Description / content note: "No one cares for me and they give me leaves to wear instead of cotton clothes." This is the complaint of a rejected wife whose husband is away working, or of a widow who has been thrown back on her own meagre resources. The leader, Elena Josio, calls out her own name at the end of the song. Another explanation was that the dead person had not been properly clothed in a shroud for burial. Funeral song with clapping.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Chopi
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa -- Mozambique Zavala
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1963
Date issued / published: 1963
Identifier: TR204; 5
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:45
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/10962/193198