Awa simene (Track)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR084 , 3 mins
Details
- Field of Interest
- World Music
- Copyright Message
- Material sourced from the International Library of African Music. Copyright International Library of African Music.
- Description
- Sung in the old Ngoni style. The Chief calls out towards the end of the song that his people are the ones who came from the Swazi, down South (with the Gomani section of the Ngoni). This section migrated from Natal either just before or during the Shaka wars. "Some had brought fighting men to terrify me, but could do nothing. But here we still live and you could do nothing to us."
- Content Type
- Field recording (raw)
- Duration
- 3 mins
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
- Format
- Audio
- Sub Genre
- Song
- Date Recorded
- 1959
- Series Number
- TR084
- Subject
- World Music, Anthropology, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Africa, Cultural anthropology
