Nkunte njinga Andre Ciku (Andrew Ciku urged us to pedal fast on our bicycles)

Title: Nkunte njinga Andre Ciku (Andrew Ciku urged us to pedal fast on our bicycles)
Creator: M. Sashi and group of Lumbo men
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Music--Zambia
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Folk songs, Bemba
Subject: Bemba (African people)
Subject: Africa Zambia Mufulira mine f-za
Date Issued: 1957
Date: 1957
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151743
Identifier: vital:39166
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR065-09
Description: "Andrwew Ciku urged us to pedal hard. We wanted to cross the Luwongo river to get to the copperbelt, but on the way we broke down, to our regret!" This type of parallel singing is called "Kalela" and is commonly used, they say, for topical songs. These boys were actually singing in a mixture of Bemba and Aushi. Topical song
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:20
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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