Mwomboko

Title: Mwomboko
Creator: Chinda Kamwana
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk songs, Kikuyu
Subject: Kikuyu (African people)
Subject: Songs, Kikuyu--Kenya
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa Kenya Kiamuthambi f-ke
Date Issued: 1950
Date: 1950
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175572
Identifier: vital:42594
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR159-13
Description: Song to accompany a town dance in which men and women dance together in pairs, after the fashion of Europeans. The accordion is used as a ground which creates a happy noise but has little, if any, melodic or harmonic relationship to the tonality or mode of the voice. Topical song, with accordian and struck iron (-12.16-).
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:49
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Kikuyu
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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