Wathi wa Ngethi

Title: Wathi wa Ngethi
Creator: Kanyense Muange
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk songs, Kamba
Subject: Kamba (African people)
Subject: Folk music--Kenya
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
Date Issued: 1950
Date: 1950
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175986
Identifier: vital:42650
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR160-13
Description: Mwali is the name for the traditional way of retailing or chanting a legend, and Mwathi is a song. The singer boasts that he alone is the best singer of the district and greets his clever friends who make decorations for the dancers. In his second item he describes also the rifles he carried as a soilder. Praise chant.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:14
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Kamba
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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