- Title
- Chundalala chawona mwezi (The moon was already up and the ants were gone)
- Creator
- Group of 4 Ngoni men
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk songs
- Subject
- Songs, Nyanja
- Subject
- Nsenga (African people)
- Subject
- Ngoni (African people)
- Subject
- Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
- Date Issued
- 1957
- Date
- 1957
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137483
- Identifier
- vital:37529
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR038-05
- Description
- The meaning behind the title is that the singer was too late to catch any flying ants, which usually swarm at dusk. By the time the moon was up, the ants had closed their bodies again and there were no ants to catch. Mbanda dance song with Malaza leg rattles
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:02:39
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Nyanja
- Language
- Nsenga
- 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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