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MR.1970.17.23-A6

Basic facts:

 country   province   region   village   people   group   date   collector 
 Malawi      Kasungu      Nyanja   Chewa   1958   Hugh Tracey 

Language and title:

original language: Nyanja/Chewa
title in original language: Nguwo yanga
title in English: My cloth

Musical composition:

 type   # performers   instrument (type)   singing voice 
 Group   unknown   -   GIRL 
 Group   unknown   -   BOY 

Characteristics:

general:
function: lullaby
length: 1:49 min.

Performers:

unknown

Fragment:

not available online

Remarks:

"The Sound of Africa Series - Sons d'Afrique Series"
Reference AMA. TR-76
This song is sung by young girls and boys at night in their huts before going to sleep. It appears that there are many such songs of traditional usage. As they fall asleep the singing gets more fitful and finally fades away. "My own cloth, my poor cloth. You laugh at the holes in my cloth." Taken from the days when people only wore a cloth, before Europeans came.


Tempo: help

tempo
average152.57
median153.85
minimum120
maximum181.82
standaard deviation10.17
regression factor-0

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