Njinga ailepele (The bicycle)

Title: Njinga ailepele (The bicycle)
Creator: Men and women of Pemba Village
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Yao (African people)
Subject: Arts, Malawi
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Africa Malawi Pemba. Salima District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
Date Issued: 1958
Date: 1958
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154685
Identifier: vital:39764
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR083-02
Description: The player of the second drum was blind and had been so since childhood. The hero of the song apparently went to find work outside Nyasaland in Southern Rhodesia or elsewhere, but on his first journey he failed to bring back with him the coveted bicycle. On his second journey he was successful. Bari dance with 2 Khunto cylindrical drums, pinned and weighted.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:03:30
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Yao
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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