Rukanga rwamajana
- Authors: Ntamakiriro , Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda City not specified f-rw
- Language: Rundi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/329098 , vital:61302 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP3165-XYZ7394
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Rukanga Rwamajana
- Authors: Ntamakiriro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Rundi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Africa Rwanda Kibimba f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148980 , vital:38792 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR058-09
- Description: The singer's theme deals with the things he wants from life and he gives various examples. He says, "if you want a really good cow, you must ask a chief for one. If you want really good food, you must ask a chief's wife for it." He also says that quarrels between husband and wife are caused by two things, the wife's gossiping and her constant visits to her parents. The bow with its fundamental notes (produced by striking both the long and the short segments of the braced string) over an octave apart (nearly sixteen semitones) is used as a rhythmic ground to set against the swift patter of the song. Wistful song with musical bow, vertical, braced, round section.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952