Tuhuri

Title: Tuhuri
Creator: Large group of Kasai women and 6 men
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Songs, Luba-Lulua
Subject: Luba (African people)
Subject: Cultural anthropology
Subject: Luba-Lulua language
Subject: Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
Date Issued: 1957
Date: 1957
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137745
Identifier: vital:37555
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR039-05
Description: The buzzing or nasalizing effect of the small mirliton membranes inserted into the side of the drums is clearly heard throughout this recording. The women who play the singing gourds hold their mouths just inside the orifice of their gourds and voice their notes with taught lips, using alternate sides of their mouth, as if they were lipping a trumpet or bugle. The cavity of the gourd thus resonates the sound produced. In addition, they slap the outside of their gourd rhythmically as they hold it between the palms of their hands. Wedding and ceremonial with 4 goblet drums, closed, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons. Quiet hand clapping (-12.05-) and 4 singing gourds. (-11.13-).
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:54
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Luba
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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