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Kanyok dance music.

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Format:
Sound recording
Contributor:
Tracey, Hugh.
Alexander Street Press.
Series:
Smithsonian Global Sound.
Language:
Bantu (Other)
Subjects (All):
Kanyok (African people)--Music.
Kanyok (African people).
Folk dance music--Congo (Democratic Republic).
Folk dance music.
Congo (Democratic Republic).
Genre:
Folk songs.
Folk dance music.
Field recordings.
Music.
Sound recordings.
Folk music.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (10 minutes)
Place of Publication:
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1957.
Language Note:
Sung in Kanyok.
Summary:
In 1957, Hugh Tracey recorded marimba and mbira music of the Kanyok people of Mwene-Ditu, a town in Kasai Occidental Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, then known as the Belgian Congo. (Tracey 1973).
Contents:
Kalubambu tambo abibongo
Waluwendo chobelo
Muchima ngoyi muchungu.
Participant:
Performed by the Kanyok people of Mwene-Ditu, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Notes:
Streaming audio files.
Title from resource description page (viewed March 03, 2016).
Recorded in 1957.
Other Format:
Original cat. no.: ILAMTR015
OCLC:
950026524
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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