Namaye Bikitara wakwere bus (We heard the Bikitara has taken a bus)

Title: Namaye Bikitara wakwere bus (We heard the Bikitara has taken a bus)
Creator: Bikitara Banda and friend
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Songs, Chewa
Subject: Songs, Nyanja
Subject: Nyanja (African people)
Subject: Chewa (African people)
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Africa Malawi Pemba f-mw
Date Issued: 1958
Date: 1958
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158990
Identifier: vital:40248
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR094-17
Description: "We hear that Bikitara has taken a bus and gone home. And if he should die there we would be very sorry." The tuning of the Bangwe was; 488, 456, 416, 380, 324, 304. The top string (above 488) was not in tune. Self delectative song with Bangwe board zither.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:01:20
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Nyanja/Chewa
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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