Banakashi tabalila (Women's tears do not mean a thing)

Title: Banakashi tabalila (Women's tears do not mean a thing)
Creator: Isaac Matafwana and Sunkutu
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia)
Subject: Folk songs, Bemba
Subject: Topical songs
Subject: Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
Date Issued: 1957
Date: 1957
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135152
Identifier: vital:37242
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR0023-10
Description: "Women's tears do not mean a thing! Their eyes shed tears while they sing with their lips." The form of this song is typically folk in its continued refrain. The situation to which the singer appears to refer, is the funeral dance in which the women sing lustily for the dance, while artificially inducing tears to fall in respect for the dead. Topical song with guitar and bottle
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:49
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: bemba
Rights: International Library of African Music
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

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