Wadianda wa Bena Shimba (We are the people of Bena Shimba)

Title: Wadianda wa Bena Shimba (We are the people of Bena Shimba)
Creator: Group of 9 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/10962/139183
Identifier: vital:37712
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR0047-01
Description: This group belonged to the Bena Shimba clan. As well as tipping and sometimes singing into their gourds through a length of metal pipe or tube, the gourd-blowers also struck the sides of the gourds with their hands. The gourds of this group were handsomely decorated with metal studs arranged in patterns. When asked when they performed this song, the answer was, "we sing it for funerals, but also on any sad occassion, for example when a man has to pay a large sum of money to another. Lament with 3 singing gourds (Chipuri), 1 basket rattle (-12.54-), hand clapping (-12.03-) and 1 bottle (-12.17-).
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:03:08
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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