- Title
- Amasewe mukadzi wakanaka (The beauty)
- Creator
- Joseph Ngonyama Shumba
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk music--Africa
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Folk music--Zimbabwe
- Subject
- Karanga (African people)
- Subject
- Folk songs, Shona
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Date Issued
- 1958
- Date
- 1958
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154314
- Identifier
- vital:39646
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR081-07
- Description
- The player is an accomplished performer, he works for the Fort Victoria Municipality on the local roads with the grader. This song is the best known and popular in the Sipangabera district of Portuguese East Africa. It is, they say the first of all songs in the region. The word 'Amasewe' means 'mother-in-law' and the gist of the song is that a certain young man went to a nearby village where he got himself a wife and his mother-in-law kept on remarking how handsome he was. Self delectative song with mbira dzawaNdau.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:03:05
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Shona, Karanga
- 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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