Chigona mbara (The drunkard)

Title: Chigona mbara (The drunkard)
Creator: Simenti Phiri
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Arts, Malawi
Subject: Songs, Nyanja
Subject: Nyanja (African people)
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Africa Malawi Malindi, Port Herald f-rh
Date Issued: 1958
Date: 1958
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155906
Identifier: vital:39930
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR088-11
Description: As he sang the audience were all making the sound of drinking. The tune, he says, was taken from a certain entertainer in Salisbury who called himself Chigona Mbara. The 'Drunkard'. Self delectative song with board zither.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:41
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
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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