Ziriya yapasharo (Track)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR175 , 2 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
- It is usual for semi-professional entertainers of this kind to keep up a running patter of amusing remarks and scandal to keep up a running patter of amusing remarks and scandal to the traditional airs played on the Njari in the background. Like many other players of this instrument Manyoni Zhou calls himself "The Player of Mbira." The two musicians come from neighbouring districts, Zhou from Chilimanzi and Mashoko from Buhera, the district in which the Njari originated about 1760 A.D.
- Content Type
- Field recording (raw)
- Duration
- 2 mins
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
- Format
- Audio
- Sub Genre
- Narrative Songs
- Date Recorded
- 1950
- Series Number
- TR175
- Subject
- World Music, Anthropology, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Africa, Cultural anthropology