Mkwaze (Can I give cattle)

Title: Mkwaze (Can I give cattle)
Creator: Gezani 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 Kongwa Mission, Dowa, Central Nyasaland f-mw
Date Issued: 1958
Date: 1958
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153770
Identifier: vital:39520
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR078-01
Description: "Can I give cattle to my wife as when I am dead I shall go together with her to the grave." It seems clear that the mode in which the players is singing is more complex that the pentatonic scale of the instrument. Topical song with Mbira.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:43
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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