Chundalala chawona mwezi (The moon was already up and the ants were gone)

Title: Chundalala chawona mwezi (The moon was already up and the ants were gone)
Creator: Group of 4 Ngoni men
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk songs
Subject: Songs, Nyanja
Subject: Nsenga (African people)
Subject: Ngoni (African people)
Subject: Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
Date Issued: 1957
Date: 1957
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137483
Identifier: vital:37529
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR038-05
Description: The meaning behind the title is that the singer was too late to catch any flying ants, which usually swarm at dusk. By the time the moon was up, the ants had closed their bodies again and there were no ants to catch. Mbanda dance song with Malaza leg rattles
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:39
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Nyanja
Language: Nsenga
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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