- Title
- Mukalanga awole (Come Mukalanga, come rain)
- 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/10962/138080
- Identifier
- vital:37591
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR041-12
- Description
- The Valley Tonga call it "clapping for rain." clapping being the local method of supplication. They could not say who or what Mukalanga might be. It may well refer to the second wife of the Monomotapa who was called. "Come clouds", they sky itself is "jube". Our informer, Chief Chiabi told us that his people had crossed the Zambezi river led by a famous man like the Karanga prophet Chaminuka. This man is said to have struck the waters and they divided. All the people, together with their flocks and herds crossed over over on the dry stones of the river bed. He eventually died under a certain baobab tree in a kind of trance state and ever since then the place has been set aside as a rain shine. Rain son with clapping.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:01:40
- 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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