- Title
- We mukashi Namulenga, nshakupile kuwama (My wife, Namulenga, I did not marry you for beauty)
- Creator
- Edmond Cileshe and his wife
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk songs, Ambo (Zambia)
- Subject
- Folk songs, Bemba
- Subject
- Topical songs
- Subject
- Africa Zambia Mufulira f-za
- Date Issued
- 1957
- Date
- 1957
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135210
- Identifier
- vital:37249
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR0024-02
- Description
- "My wife, Namulenga, I did not marry you for your beauty. Cook some food now, the cock has already crowed." The player was blind and his wife sat beside him tapping the back of his instrument with a stick and singing. He himself held his Mumamba on the ground and beat the base of it with his right knee as he played. Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Nfunkutu dance song with Mumamba mbira bell.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:02:58
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- bemba
- 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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