- Title
- Lezondaba. Imbube ingonyama (The stories)
- Creator
- Five girls of the Queen Mother's village
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk music--Africa
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Folk songs, Swazi
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
- Date Issued
- 1958
- Date
- 1958
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152303
- Identifier
- vital:39244
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR068-15
- Description
- Song for the Mhlanga ceremonies held by the young girls. This is the "reed" ceremony. The young girls go down to the rivers to cut reeds and this song is sung when they bring back the reeds to the village. "Whenever a girl fails in love, her young man is taken away to go to the war." The song was composed during the Second World War. Ceremonial Mhlanga song for reed ceremonies.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:03:09
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Swati
- 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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