Mama Yangu

Title: Mama Yangu
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/10962/168434
Identifier: vital:41581
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR0126-10
Description: A song about his mother, his country and people. Swahili words are interspersed with the Buudu as Swahili has rapidly become the 'lingua franca' for this part of the Congo having been first introduced by the Arabs and now officially in schools, business and administration. Topical song with Likembe (Mbira).
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:54
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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