Tyingabenga (The Giant)

Title: Tyingabenga (The Giant)
Creator: Five Nyasa men
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Malawi
Subject: Songs, Nyanja
Subject: Nyanja (African people)
Subject: Songs, Chewa
Subject: Chewa (African people)
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa Malawi Likoma f-mw
Date Issued: 1957
Date: 1957
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160799
Identifier: vital:40546
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR099-05
Description: The drum was played with a stick in the left hand tapping on the side of the drum alternately with the head. The right hand kept up the rythm in the usual way. During this lively performnace the bottle player shattered his bottle into fragments, continuing to beat the neck of the beat which remained in his hand until that too disintegrated under the blows of the six inch nail. At the end of the first item the player dashed off to a nearby hut and produced the next best substitute, a new hoe blade. This recording was made by Nyasa workers at a Citrus Estate near Nelspruit, Eastern Transvaal. Party dance with double headed drum, concertina and bottle.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:45
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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