Marimbo

Title: Marimbo
Creator: George Modiegnyana and group of young men
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk songs, Tswana
Subject: Tswana (African people)
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa South Africa Zeerust f-sa
Date Issued: 1959
Date: 1959
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165895
Identifier: vital:41293
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR0115-14
Description: Sung at a wedding in honour of both bride and bridegroom. The singers had just come back from initiation school and huddled together looking very shy. The solo part gives indications of foreign influence. A cicada was singing in the tree under which the singers were grouped. Wedding song.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:01:37
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
Rights: International Library of African Music
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Ceative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

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