- Title
- Wezulu walila
- Title
- The whistle has blown at the river Mazoe
- Creator
- Boys of Dedza Secondary School
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk music--Africa
- Subject
- Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa)
- Subject
- Songs, Chewa
- Subject
- Chewa (African people)
- Subject
- Songs, Tumbuka
- Subject
- Tumbuka (African people)
- Subject
- Musical instruments
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Date Issued
- 1958
- Date
- 1958
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184958
- Identifier
- vital:44293
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR187-17
- Description
- This song was sung, they say, when the white man first came to their country at the turn of the century. Unlike the local people they used whistle to give words of command and it was a novelity at the time, and so found its way into folk song. Dance song for Ngoma with clapping
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:01:22
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Tumbuka
- Language
- Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Language
- Tonga (Nyasa)
- 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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