Londida (

Title: Londida ("A butterfly", the flighty girl)
Creator: Lamkhwanase Tsemba, 4 girls and group of men from the Queen mother's village
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Folk songs, Swazi
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
Date Issued: 1958
Date: 1958
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152312
Identifier: vital:39245
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR068-16
Description: A man in the group interpolated praises. The song is sung at weddings and also for the Mhlanga or "reed" ceremonies. It is only sung by the unmarried girls. Mhlanga ceremonial song for the reed ceremony.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:52
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Swati
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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Londida ("A butterfly", the flighty girl)