Ambiga
- Authors: Mudumbu , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Bira (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombe f-cg
- Language: Bira
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168425 , vital:41580 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-09
- Description: The singer's face resembled a West African mask with extremely slanting eyes. He sang with his Mbira pressed against the side of his face giving a strange impression of a spirit out of the forest. Topical song with Likembe (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Mudumbu , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Bira (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombe f-cg
- Language: Bira
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168425 , vital:41580 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-09
- Description: The singer's face resembled a West African mask with extremely slanting eyes. He sang with his Mbira pressed against the side of his face giving a strange impression of a spirit out of the forest. Topical song with Likembe (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mama Yangu
- Authors: Mudumbu , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Bira (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombe f-cg
- Language: Bira
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168434 , vital:41581 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-10
- Description: A song about his mother, his country and people. Swahili words are interspersed with the Buudu as Swahili has rapidly become the 'lingua franca' for this part of the Congo having been first introduced by the Arabs and now officially in schools, business and administration. Topical song with Likembe (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Mudumbu , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Bira (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombe f-cg
- Language: Bira
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168434 , vital:41581 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0126-10
- Description: A song about his mother, his country and people. Swahili words are interspersed with the Buudu as Swahili has rapidly become the 'lingua franca' for this part of the Congo having been first introduced by the Arabs and now officially in schools, business and administration. Topical song with Likembe (Mbira).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
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