- Title
- Wapita lero kalindabwinja
- Title
- The watchman has gone today
- Creator
- Homwale, Hodede (Performer)
- Creator
- Tracey, Huges (Recordist)
- Subject
- Folk music--Africa
- Subject
- Songs, Tumbuka
- Subject
- Tumbuka (African people)
- Subject
- Songs, Chewa
- Subject
- Chewa (African people)
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Date Issued
- 1950
- Date
- 1950
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187070
- Identifier
- vital:44562
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR191-22
- Description
- The player was interrupted by the poor performance of his instrument as the palm leaf friction pad on the string was not behaving as he liked and he murmured so during the song. In the old days the Karigo lute was a favourite instrument of the wandering ministrel who would entertain the people with singing and dancing. Karigo dance song for men and women with one string Karigo lute
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:01:13
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Tumbuka
- Language
- Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- 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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