Uganda/Wachsmann Collection 54-38, 29-30 Nov 1954 19541129-19541130
- Published:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2019.
- Additional Creators:
- Wachsmann, Klaus and Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
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- Summary:
- Description: Music of the Karamajong, Soga, Toro, and Acoli peoples of Uganda. Items 54.823-54.838. Places: Mutunda; Biseruka. Tribes: Copi; Nyoro.
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- Note:
- Item number: 1954.01_pmcd38.
54.831-54.838: Announced by K. W. as songs from Tonya. The intention was to record the fishing community from Tonya at the Lake (Albert). There was hardly any cooperation, and these recordings were to save everyone's face. The people of Tonya call themselves Abatonya, but the Nyoro call them Abagahya (the H is pronounced as in German ich). The only instrument the informants would know of was the percussion beam, kikonkonyo (.**.) with a stress on the second and third syllables. After a successful hippo hunt, each hunter takes a single beater and plays on a long tree or an old dugout canoe, with the accompaniment of an E. A. kettle drum. Name of twins: massa, wedding songs ebyokuserwa. For beer songs they say they use Nyoro songs. - Participant/Performer Note:
- Contributors: Klaus Wachsmann.
- Original Version:
- Reproduction of: Uganda/Wachsmann Collection 54-38. 29-30 Nov 1954. Field Recording.
- Location of Originals:
- UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, University of California, Los Angeles
- Copyright Note:
- UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, University of California, Los Angeles
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