Sigilai

Title: Sigilai
Creator: Kipsigis girls
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Kipsigis (African people)
Subject: Folk music--Kenya
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa Kenya Kapkatet f-ke
Date Issued: 1950
Date: 1950
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177662
Identifier: vital:42844
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR165-13
Description: This song refers to the man Sigilai who first introduced the Chemonget, one of the Kipsigis lyres. They sing "who brought the Chemonget? Sigilai!" Children anywhere are usually poor subjects for recording and there are no exception. These two items are included to show how small Kipsigis girls perform Both songs show a possibility of school (foreign) influence. Topical song
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:01:30
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Kipsigis
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Ceative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

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