Nthambi wa Mwene

Title: Nthambi wa Mwene
Creator: Muili wa Kwinga with Kamba women
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/10962/176178
Identifier: vital:42668
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR161-01
Description: The dancers sing greetings to each other and ululate in reply. The dance is largely a shaking movement of the shoulders only, alternately left and right. In common with many other African dances the basic music is simple and repetitive. Kilumi dance song for men and women.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:43
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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