- Title
- Owachitawala
- Title
- O Watchtower
- Creator
- Philemon Kalela
- Creator
- Group of Bemba men
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk music--Africa
- Subject
- Lozi (African people)
- Subject
- Bemba (African people)
- Subject
- Folk songs, Bemba
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Africa Zambia Fort Roseberry f-za
- Date Issued
- 1952
- Date
- 1952
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183798
- Identifier
- vital:44070
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR182-16
- Description
- A song making fun of the Watchtower sect which holds its meetings every Monday and Wednesday in different private houses. The singers were alleged to be Catholics but that did not stop their singing the songs of the rival church. The word Chitawala is made up of the syllables of the English word heard by African Wachi-ta-wa-la. The local Bemba being unable to say an'R', preferring the 'L'. Topical song
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:02:40
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Lozi
- Language
- Bemba
- 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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