Mantentemezana (Herd boys' rain song)

Title: Mantentemezana (Herd boys' rain song)
Creator: Group of small boys
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Folk songs, Swazi
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
Date Issued: 1958
Date: 1958
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152184
Identifier: vital:39231
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR068-02
Description: This song is a well known and recited by herd boys on seeing small clouds appear in the sky calling the clouds to collect and drop their rain for the cattle they are herding. Alternately for the clouds to spread out and allow the sun to shine again. Herd boy's rain song
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:00:37
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Swati
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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