- Title
- Mpaka (The Cat)
- Creator
- Eddington Kwanjana and boys
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk music--Africa
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Songs, Nyanja
- Subject
- Songs, Chewa
- Subject
- Nyanja (African people)
- Subject
- Chewa (African people)
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Africa Malawi Mzengera, Lilongwe, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Date Issued
- 1958
- Date
- 1958
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153962
- Identifier
- vital:39548
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR079-01
- Description
- The response after each phrase of the story is "Tirirose". S. "Mai tsegulire, mai tsegulire, CH. Kayendayenda eyaye kayenda. S. Ndatsala ndeka, ndiribe mai, CH Kayendayenda eyaye kayenda." A cat whose mother was named Damati lived in a forest where there were hyenas who wanted to eat the cats, and the cats did their best to protect themselves. The hyena (fai) started a dance and planned to eat whoever came to see ot. The cat had rattles on his legs and his mother taught him a song to sing whenever he got into trouble. The cat went to the hyena's dance and escaped into the mortar when the hyena wanted to eat him. Cat got at hyena's eyes, scratched them out and escaped. Story and song (Nthanu).
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:05:39
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- 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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