Nkurukumbi

Title: Nkurukumbi
Creator: Mwendera Kaijape with Haya women
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Music--Uganda
Subject: Haya (African people)
Subject: Nyoro (African people)
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa Tanzania/Uganda Bukoba/Kabale f-tz/f-ug
Date Issued: 1950
Date: 1950
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171748
Identifier: vital:42121
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR143-05
Description: "You, the girl who is being married." This song is sung when the mother of the bride is about to take both the bride and the bridegroom into their new house. It is sung by the rejoicing party upon the final act of the wedding ceremony when the bridegroom touches the breasts of his bride in front of all the people. The diction of the leader in all these songs is particularly clear. Wedding song.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:50
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Nyoro
Language: Haya
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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