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Mambala I

- Group of Luba Women and 3 drummers, not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ambila baBemba na baLamba

- Group of Lulua soldiers and women, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Chibemba

- Kayoka Ladislaus, Kapungo Isidore and Beya Marcel, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mambala I

- Group of Luba women and 3 drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Luba women and 3 drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Ruund (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Lubilashi f-cg
  • Language: Lunda , Luba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182949 , vital:43896 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR179-10
  • Description: This cheereful music gives no impression at all of being associated with a funeral, but the singers stated that it was so. The three drums were called respectively:- DITUMBA weighted with wax, with a mirliton, (lutanda). GATUMBATUMBA which was neither weighted nor had a mirliton. MUTUMBI weighted with wax but without miriliton. The singing gourds were the usual empty gourds commonly used by Luba women. Funeral dance song, with 3 goblet drums, closed, pinned, with mirliton, and 2 singing gourds
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Mambala I

- Luba Women, Perfomer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mambala I

- Luba women and three drummers, performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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