Mungabe

Title: Mungabe
Creator: Chewa women
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Songs, Tumbuka
Subject: Tumbuka (African people)
Subject: Songs, Chewa
Subject: Chewa (African people)
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
Date Issued: 1950
Date: 1950
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186389
Identifier: vital:44493
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR190-13
Description: "When the rains come, do not steal the beans." This type of closely echoed singing or incantation is typical of the Chewa. Eight women sang the song, five of them with infants at their breasts. Mfunde rain song
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:45
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Tumbuka
Language: Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
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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