Kasise (Hair)

Title: Kasise (Hair)
Creator: Grace Musisia and Chewa girls
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Arts, Malawi
Subject: Songs, Tumbuka
Subject: Tumbuka (African people)
Subject: Henga (African people)
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Africa Malawi Dowa, Mzimba District f-rh
Date Issued: 1958
Date: 1958
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156300
Identifier: vital:39973
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR090-11
Description: "Hair, thanks, I will not do it because you do not shave the 'beard' (pubic hair) of your friends' wife." The meaning is obscure. It is a Tumbuka custom to shave the pubic hairs of women. Dance song.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:00:43
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Tumbuka/Henga
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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