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Mwakumajangosha

- Kitula Bini Kinongu with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kitula Bini Kinongu with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kesesa f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173336 , vital:42361 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-10
  • Description: "They have tried all day to mark his face, but failed. My child Kilumba is still too young." The cutting of cicatrices on the face is accompanied by songs such as these, and by festivities and dancing. There is a local breed of fowls which have no feathers on their necks and very red skin. The song refers to a certain diviner who used to smear his face and neck with red earth. The people of the village can be heard chatting and laughing during the song, and a bird can be heard in the background of the second song. Ucheyeki song for cutting cicatrices.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mwakumajangosha

- Kitula Bini Kinongu with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kitula Bini Kinongu with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kesesa f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173351 , vital:42360 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-10
  • Description: "They have tried all day to mark his face, but failed. My child Kilumba is still too young." The cutting of cicatrices on the face is accompanied by songs such as these, and by festivities and dancing. There is a local breed of fowls which have no feathers on their necks and very red skin. The song refers to a certain diviner who used to smear his face and neck with red earth. The people of the village can be heard chatting and laughing during the song, and a bird can be heard in the background of the second song. Ucheyeki song for cutting cicatrices.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Nakumaja Ngoshe

- Kitula Bini Kinongu with Sukuma men, Composer not Specified, Tracey, Hugh

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