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Lala songs from the Serenje district.
Streaming audio Available online
View online- Format:
- Sound recording
- Series:
- Smithsonian Global Sound.
- Language:
- Bantu (Other)
- Subjects (All):
- Folk songs--Zambia--Serenje District.
- Folk songs.
- Lala (African people)--Music.
- Lala (African people).
- Zambia--Serenje District.
- Genre:
- Folk songs.
- 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 Lala.
- Summary:
- These recordings of Lala people of Zambia were documented during 1957, when the country was known as Northern Rhodesia. Though the performers originated in different parts of the Serenje District, they were living and working in several mining compounds, where Hugh Tracey recorded them (Tracey 1973).
- Contents:
- Muyomba walila bukeni, mwebalasa inama! = The hornbill is calling
- Ba Mari' tukasambe = Mary let us go wash ourselves
- Abalala bafuma ili batemuna = The lover has come in the light of day
- Fyalila banuta Kapyanga! = How Kapyanga's wife wept.
- Participant:
- Sung and played by native musicians.
- Notes:
- Streaming audio files.
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 03, 2016).
- Recorded in 1957.
- Other Format:
- Original cat. no.: ILAMTR021
- OCLC:
- 950026535
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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