Arap Chepsiolei II
- Akito Arap Yeko, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Akito Arap Yeko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Mijikenda (African people) , Nandi (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapsabet f-ke
- Language: Nandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176879 , vital:42768 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-06
- Description: Arap Chepsiolei's chief claim to fame is that he sold his daughter, they say, and used the money to buy a hoe. One is reminded of 'Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Jews who sold his wife for a pair of shoes. Topical song, with Kipukandet 6 string bowl lyre.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Akito Arap Yeko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Mijikenda (African people) , Nandi (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapsabet f-ke
- Language: Nandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176879 , vital:42768 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-06
- Description: Arap Chepsiolei's chief claim to fame is that he sold his daughter, they say, and used the money to buy a hoe. One is reminded of 'Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Jews who sold his wife for a pair of shoes. Topical song, with Kipukandet 6 string bowl lyre.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Chepconi Marinda II
- Akito Arap Yeko, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Akito Arap Yeko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Mijikenda (African people) , Nandi (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapsabet f-ke
- Language: Nandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176905 , vital:42770 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-07
- Description: The Nandi, like the Kipsigis their relatives, are given to singing praise songs about people and places familiar to them and beloved by all. This is an example of such a song in which people, places and chiefs all come in for approbation and appreciation. Praise song with Kipukandet 6 string bowl lyre.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Akito Arap Yeko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Mijikenda (African people) , Nandi (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapsabet f-ke
- Language: Nandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176905 , vital:42770 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-07
- Description: The Nandi, like the Kipsigis their relatives, are given to singing praise songs about people and places familiar to them and beloved by all. This is an example of such a song in which people, places and chiefs all come in for approbation and appreciation. Praise song with Kipukandet 6 string bowl lyre.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Kamano
- Akito Arap Yeko, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Akito Arap Yeko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Mijikenda (African people) , Nandi (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapsabet f-ke
- Language: Nandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176853 , vital:42765 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-04
- Description: This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, like the Bongwe Zither of Nyasaland. This gave two chords. Notes 1, 3, and 5 and notes 2 and 4. One string, they said, was missing, the lower octave of No. 1. The scale was:- 308, 256, 232, 206, 180, (154) vs. The tune comes from the Luo people in the valleys below but has had Nandi words put to it. It is a song of praise for the Nandi country and other places which the singer and his audience have visited. Topical song with Kipukandet 5 string lyre.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Akito Arap Yeko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Mijikenda (African people) , Nandi (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapsabet f-ke
- Language: Nandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176853 , vital:42765 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-04
- Description: This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, like the Bongwe Zither of Nyasaland. This gave two chords. Notes 1, 3, and 5 and notes 2 and 4. One string, they said, was missing, the lower octave of No. 1. The scale was:- 308, 256, 232, 206, 180, (154) vs. The tune comes from the Luo people in the valleys below but has had Nandi words put to it. It is a song of praise for the Nandi country and other places which the singer and his audience have visited. Topical song with Kipukandet 5 string lyre.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
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