Ambiga

Title: Ambiga
Creator: Mudumbu
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Songs, Swahili
Subject: Bira (African people)
Subject: Swahili-speaking peoples
Subject: Pygmies
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombe f-cg
Date Issued: 1952
Date: 1952
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168425
Identifier: vital:41580
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR0126-09
Description: The singer's face resembled a West African mask with extremely slanting eyes. He sang with his Mbira pressed against the side of his face giving a strange impression of a spirit out of the forest. Topical song with Likembe (Mbira).
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:43
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Bira
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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