Umulugu wa Yakobo

Title: Umulugu wa Yakobo
Creator: Wonkhama Sekenge with Sukuma men
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Nyamwezi (African people)
Subject: Sukuma (African people)
Subject: Folk songs, Sukuma
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa Tanzania Mwadui f-tz
Date Issued: 1950
Date: 1950
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173477
Identifier: vital:42375
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR151-06
Description: "This year we expect to have a lot of sisal and therefore a lot of money. But some of our friends will lose because the grasshoppers have eaten their grain crops." The high price of sisal this year (1950) has created a demand and the local Sukuma have been cutting their sisal hedges and getting the fibre for sale to Indian buyers. A few days after this song was sung an order had to be issued by the authorities forbidding, temporarily, the buying of sisal as the Sukuma were neglecting to harvest both their grain and cotton crops which were being left to spoil in the fields. There is a sound fo drums in the distance at the beginning of the song. Busatsi dance song form men and women.
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: Nyamwezi
Language: Sukuma
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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