- Title
- Mwomboko
- Creator
- Chinda Kamwana
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk songs, Kikuyu
- Subject
- Kikuyu (African people)
- Subject
- Songs, Kikuyu--Kenya
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Africa Kenya Kiamuthambi f-ke
- Date Issued
- 1950
- Date
- 1950
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175572
- Identifier
- vital:42594
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR159-13
- Description
- Song to accompany a town dance in which men and women dance together in pairs, after the fashion of Europeans. The accordion is used as a ground which creates a happy noise but has little, if any, melodic or harmonic relationship to the tonality or mode of the voice. Topical song, with accordian and struck iron (-12.16-).
- 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
- Kikuyu
- 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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