Yelina

Title: Yelina
Creator: Young Chewa girls
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Songs, Chewa
Subject: Songs, Nyanja
Subject: Nyanja (African people)
Subject: Chewa (African people)
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
Date Issued: 1958
Date: 1958
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160643
Identifier: vital:40488
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR098-09
Description: "Yelina, what are those charms around your waist? You have risked the life of your babee and may loose him." A young woman has been seen weaving a string of wooden beads as a charm around her waist. So the other women sing, "what has she been doing to need such a charm? The local belief is that if either the husband or wife commits adultery while the child is being born or during the time the woman is pregnant, there will be a risk of the child being still born. The charm worn in this case was taken as a sign that the mother-to-be had misbehaved herself and was trying to guard against the consequences by wearing a string of wooden beads around her waist." Dance for M'Jili with clapping.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:38
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Nyanja/Chewa
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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