Kupanda mlongo nkusauka (To be without a sister is to be without a home)

Title: Kupanda mlongo nkusauka (To be without a sister is to be without a home)
Creator: Thawani Mwale
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Songs, Nyanja
Subject: Songs, Chewa
Subject: Nyanja (African people)
Subject: Chewa (African people)
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Africa Malawi Mulvi, Salima District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
Date Issued: 1958
Date: 1958
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153374
Identifier: vital:39443
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR076-08
Description: In a matrilocal society a man without sisters would have no home belonging to his own family after his parents died. "To be without a sister is to have trouble. People who have sisters mock you." Initiation song with Bangwe board.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:01:25
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
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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