- Title
- Bwana Leja
- Creator
- Thomas Mulungo
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Music--Uganda
- Subject
- Gisu (African people)
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
- Date Issued
- 1950
- Date
- 1950
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169412
- Identifier
- vital:41747
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR0131-01
- Description
- The player was seated holding the lyre with the strings extending towards the right and played his leg bells by beating his heel on the ground. Bawana Leja (Letcher or Fletcher) was said to be a Government appointed valuator of cattle which were commandered during the war (1939-45) to feed the troops stationed in Kenya and Uganda. The woman complains that her only cow was taken by him and that she had no milk to give her new born child. Topical song with seven string Litungu lyre and leg bells.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:02:41
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
- 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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