Mahlalela

Title: Mahlalela
Title: The man who does not want to work
Creator: Ncha, Frank
Creator: Three girls
Creator: Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Pedi (African people)
Subject: Folk music--South Africa
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa South Africa Leydsdorp f-sa
Date Issued: 1960
Date: 1960
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189386
Identifier: vital:44842
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR195-16
Description: Who are we going to dance with? Today we dance with women because Mahlelela is very fond of women, refusing to dance with the girls. When Mahlalela dances in his big "Scotch" hat his head wobbles from side to side, and people laugh "Chekula, chekula. elewee." In the 1920's the autoharp was the most popular of foreign manufactured unstruments, several hundred thousand having been sold to Africans in South Africa alone. It then suffered a sharp decline and today in 1963 very few can be found except among the Pedi where a few are still played. Topical song with Autoharp, 2 small drums, made of tins with rubber heads and 1 rattle
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: Pedi
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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