Hondora

Title: Hondora
Performer / Recordist: Tabarirevu Muyambo; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Music--Mozambique; Folk songs, Chopi; Folk songs, Ndau; Chopi (African people); Ndau (African people); Field recordings
Description / content note: This is possibly in nine bar phrases, a very complicated little rhythm. "Woya, alack! What has gobne wrong? Woya, alack! Hondoro, Shawi soul? How do you do, friend! How do you do, diviner! Look, beware, friend! Beware policeman, you arrest your own father! Beware policeman, you arrest your own mother! Hondoro, soul, you arrest your own mother! Beware policeman, you bind your own mother." Song for Mashawi souls with Mbira dze chiNdau.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Ndau
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa -- Mozambique Mwanditura
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1963
Date issued / published: 1963
Identifier: TR205; 14
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:49
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/10962/194414