Amabele-o-iye (Track)

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Field of Interest: World Music
Copyright Message: Material sourced from the International Library of African Music. Copyright International Library of African Music.
Description: These three songs were sung by three very small pygmy women all crouching on the ground close together. Their songs, it is said, are composed mostly of vowel sounds or very simple words without much attempt to form a lyric. They were clothed only in a small strip of cloth each strung between the legs with each end supported by a waist band of bark string. Each had a single string of beads around the neck and black markings were painted on their faces and necks. These songs, they said, could also be used as lullabies. At the end of the second and third items the bleat of a goat kid can be heard.
Content Type: Field recording (raw)
Duration: 1 min
Anthropologist / Ethnographer: Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Format: Audio
Sub Genre: Song
Date Recorded: 1952
Series Number: TR125
Subject: World Music, Anthropology, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Africa, Cultural anthropology