Masengu

Title: Masengu
Creator: Kasongo Adalbert
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Songs, Luba-Lulua
Subject: Luba (African people)
Subject: Cultural anthropology
Subject: Luba-Lulua language
Subject: Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
Date Issued: 1957
Date: 1957
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137765
Identifier: vital:37557
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR039-06
Description: This song is sung when external signs of mourning are taken off. It is an example of an old social custom now being featured in song on a European instrument. Obsequies, sometime after burial, with guitar and bottle.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:03:11
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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