Mbainaka (Farewell-I am going)

Title: Mbainaka (Farewell-I am going)
Creator: Alexis Chovu and group of 12 Bena Shimba women
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Luba (African people)
Subject: Northern Lunda (African people)
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Bakwanga f-cg
Date Issued: 1957
Date: 1957
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139201
Identifier: vital:37715
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR0047-03
Description: The song is that of a man wo quits his village with no hope of ever seeing again. It may also - it appears - express the feelings of a woman whose husband has sent her away. Lament with 3 singing gourds (Chipuri), 1 basket rattle (-12.54-), 1 bottle (-12.17-) and hand clapping (-12.03-).
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:59
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Luba
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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