- Title
- Mitongo batike
- Creator
- Kyomile Kabanyolekile with Haya men
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Music--Uganda
- Subject
- Haya (African people)
- Subject
- Nyoro (African people)
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Date Issued
- 1950
- Date
- 1950
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171908
- Identifier
- vital:42137
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR144-02
- Description
- The fishermen haul in their nets onto the shore and call to each other instructions and encoragement. Lake Victoria is called Nyanja by the Haya people. "We are going to show our chief how successful we are." This song is sung as they launch their seven canoes into the lake. They usually draw their boasts out of the water up onto the sand banks. It is also sung after a successful fishing expedition. Fishing song, with conical laced drum beaten with sticks and clapping.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:01:18
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Nyoro
- Language
- Haya
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Ceative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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