Kaloi
- Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Bukusu (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malakasi f-ke
- Language: Bukusu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176527 , vital:42710 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-04
- Description: These long armed lyres are played flat with the bowl resting on the legs or ground and the arms extending away from the players. The left hand plays the four lower notes, the right the higher three. The Luhengele is played with two pairs of double sticks, and is an inverted bowl of platter. The song recalls the bravery of Kaloi who encouraged his fellow soilders in the fight even though he himself was wounded and lying on one hip.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Bukusu (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malakasi f-ke
- Language: Bukusu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176527 , vital:42710 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-04
- Description: These long armed lyres are played flat with the bowl resting on the legs or ground and the arms extending away from the players. The left hand plays the four lower notes, the right the higher three. The Luhengele is played with two pairs of double sticks, and is an inverted bowl of platter. The song recalls the bravery of Kaloi who encouraged his fellow soilders in the fight even though he himself was wounded and lying on one hip.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nalungunyo
- Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Bukusu (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malakasi f-ke
- Language: Bukusu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176535 , vital:42711 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-05
- Description: Nalung'unyo was a quarrelsome wife who insisted that her husband divorce all his other wives and keep her only. Instead he divorced her as she was troublesome. The two singers occasionally imitate the sound of the lyre strings. Topical song, with Litungu 7 string long lyres, and 1 Luhengele inverted bowl (-12.151-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Bukusu (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malakasi f-ke
- Language: Bukusu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176535 , vital:42711 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-05
- Description: Nalung'unyo was a quarrelsome wife who insisted that her husband divorce all his other wives and keep her only. Instead he divorced her as she was troublesome. The two singers occasionally imitate the sound of the lyre strings. Topical song, with Litungu 7 string long lyres, and 1 Luhengele inverted bowl (-12.151-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
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