- Title
- Ndoba bieena wisi Mbozi (I am afraid, Father of Mbozi)
- Creator
- Group of Tonga women
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk music--Africa
- Subject
- Tonga (Zambezi people)
- Subject
- Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi)
- Subject
- Music--Zambia
- Subject
- Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Date Issued
- 1957
- Date
- 1957
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138026
- Identifier
- vital:37585
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR041-06
- Description
- This was an actual funeral dance for an old woman. The dance was a circle dance and a few men joined in, one of them singing the verses. The woman wear clothes knotted on the shoulder (black), leaving one shoulder bare. A string tied round the head. Some of them just wore kilts or skirts and very few beads. "What can I do, As I have lost my mother, oh, what are all these sorrows upon me-" The chorus repeats - "O-yeyeye!" Womens' funeral dance-after burial.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:02:30
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Tonga
- 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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