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Mwali wa Mbengi

- Kyule wa Kala, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Kyule wa Kala , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya city not specified f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/300217 , vital:57907 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP2126-XYZ5572
  • Description: Indigenous music
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Mwali wa Mbengi

- Kyule wa Kala, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kyule wa Kala , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175947 , vital:42644 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-10
  • Description: This chanting is the local traditional method of handing on legends. In this example the performer praises the beauty of certain people and particularly of a girl called Mbengi who is quite the most lovely creature on earth. "While I sing of her I wish no one else to utter a sound. I can recite so well that my words alone might make a girl conceive or make a poor man rich." Chanted prose legend.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Mwali wa Mbengi

- Kyule wa Kala, performer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mwali wa Wakwa

- Kyule wa Kala, performer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mwali wa Wakwa

- Kyule wa Kala, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Kyule wa Kala , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya city not specified f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/300370 , vital:57925 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP2127-XYZ5573
  • Description: Indigenous music
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Mwali wa Wakwa

- Kyule wa Kala, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kyule wa Kala , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175960 , vital:42645 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-11
  • Description: This chanting is the local traditional method of handing on legends. In this example the performer praises the beauty of certain people and particularly of a girl called Mbengi who is quite the most lovely creature on earth. Kyule sings about his friend whose friendship he says is as close as a cow with her tail. "Kimatu, my friend, if my song was meat you would receive the best joints while others would have to be content with the skin only." Chanted prose legend.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950
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