Mugasha 1 (Field Card)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR145 (1950) , 4 page(s)
Details
- Field of Interest
- World Music
- Copyright Message
- Material sourced from the International Library of African Music. Copyright International Library of African Music.
- Description
- The singer was word perfect throughout the whole recitation. He tells the locally well known legend of the Lake Victoria Nyanza. He is credited with being the best legend reciter in all the Haya country. Before Mugasha was born he is said to have threatened his mother that unless he was born quickly he would come out of the side of the womb. The instrutment had to be retuned before the end of the legend as one or two strings were slightly flat. It was originally recorded in five sections.
- Content Type
- Field notes
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
- Format
- Text
- Sub Genre
- Praise Song
- Page Count
- 4
- Series Number
- TR145
- Subject
- World Music, Anthropology, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Africa, Cultural anthropology, Praise Song, Zither, Nanga, África, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Bukoba District, Kagera Region
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- África, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural