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Uganda/Wachsmann Collection 54-38, 29-30 Nov 1954 19541129-19541130.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Series:
- Klaus Wachsmann Collection.
- Klaus Wachsmann Collection
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- 29-30 Nov 1954
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2019.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- Summary:
- Description: Music of the Karamajong, Soga, Toro, and Acoli peoples of Uganda. Items 54.823-54.838. Places: Mutunda; Biseruka. Tribes: Copi; Nyoro.
- Participant:
- Contributors: Klaus Wachsmann.
- Notes:
- Item number: 1954.01_pmcd38.
- 54.831-54.838: Announced by K. W. as songs from Tonya. The intention was to record the fishing community from Tonya at the Lake (Albert). There was hardly any cooperation, and these recordings were to save everyone's face. The people of Tonya call themselves Abatonya, but the Nyoro call them Abagahya (the H is pronounced as in German ich). The only instrument the informants would know of was the percussion beam, kikonkonyo (.**.) with a stress on the second and third syllables. After a successful hippo hunt, each hunter takes a single beater and plays on a long tree or an old dugout canoe, with the accompaniment of an E. A. kettle drum. Name of twins: massa, wedding songs ebyokuserwa. For beer songs they say they use Nyoro songs.
- Description based on online resource (viewed on 17 January, 2022).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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