Zuwa woye (Track)
of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR174 , 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
- "The sun, the sun! The drumming pleases the people." A threshing song of a style in most Shona villages in the late autumn. As it was raining at the time it was recorded inside one of the school rooms, the singers beating on the floor in imitation of the sound of threshing.
- Content Type
- Field recording (raw)
- Duration
- 3 mins
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
- Format
- Audio
- Sub Genre
- Song
- Date Recorded
- 1951
- Series Number
- TR174
- Subject
- World Music, Anthropology, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Africa, Cultural anthropology