Malilo

Title: Malilo
Creator: Maluba Mwale
Creator: Tonga men
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Songs, Tumbuka
Subject: Tumbuka (African people)
Subject: Songs, Tonga (Nyasa)
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa Malawi Chiundasi f-mw
Date Issued: 1950
Date: 1950
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184680
Identifier: vital:44248
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR186-13
Description: "Why do people bundle up dead bodies in mats. As if the poor fellows had disgraced themselves?" The Karigo lute is played with the instrument inverted with the string below instead of in the more normal postition with the string uppermost. The utter simplicity of the Tonga songs reflects the cultural level of the participation. Lament with Karigo, one stringed lute, bowed
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:31
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Tumbuka
Rights: International Library of African Music
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

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