South African Music Archive Project
Praise song
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- Composer: Kirutit Arap Ngasura (Performer adn Composer) | 1950/09/15 | East African, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Lyre, Ng'asura,Kinutit Arap, Praise song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number D6L-5.
- Artist(s): Kinutit Arap Ngasura | 1950/09/15 | East African, Indigenous music, Kapkatet, Kenya, Kericho, Kibugandet lyre, Kipsigis, Kipsigis district, Ngasura, Kinutit Arap, Praise song, ILAM | A praise song with Kibugandet 5 string wish bone lyre, resonated on a parafin tin. The solo singer, singing in falsetto, praises his country and many of its desirable places. He mentions, among others, the Administrative centre at Kericho, some 25 miles away, which he says is 'full of words', referring to the information service supplied to the country by the office of the District Commissioner. This wishbone shaped frame lyre is help onto the top of an empty 4 gallon parafin tin. At the end of his song the lyre slipped off its resonator.Details from ILAM field card number: D6L 4
- Artist(s): Cheriro Arap Korogorem | Composer: Bekyibei Arap Mosonik (Performer) | 1950/09/15 | Chepkongo lyre, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kericho, Kipsigis, Korogorem,Cheriro Arap, Mosonik,Bekyibei Arap, Praise song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. D6L6.
- Composer: Bekyibei Arap Mosonik (Performer)Cheriro Arap Korogorem (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/09/15 | Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Korogorem,Cheriro Arap, laced., Mosonik,Bekyibei Arap, Praise song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number D6L-6.
- Artist(s): Cherwo Arap KorogoremBekyibei Arap Mosonick | 1950/09/15 | Bowl lyre, Chepkongo bowl lyre, Cheriro Arap, East African, Indigenous music, Kapkatet, Kenya, Kericho, Kipsigis, Kipsigis district, Korogorem, Mosonik, Bekyibei Arap, Praise song, Vocal, ILAM | Praise song with Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre. The main theme of this song is affection for the Kipsigis country. He also asks 'why the whitemen should have taken over the country' which incidentally they themselves took from others in the past. He comes, he says, from the Sotik nearby. The name 'Chemirocha' is their pronunciation of 'Jimmy Rodgers' whose gramophone records were the first to be heard in the district. It is now synonomous for anything strange or new. Details from ILAM field card number: D6L 6
- Composer: Akito Arap Yeko (Performer)Akito Arap Yeko (Composer) | 1950/09/09 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipukandet lyre, Nandi, Nandi, Praise song, Yeko,Akito Arap, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6F-10
- Composer: Malakwen Chepsaikut (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Chepsaikut, Kapsabet Nandi district Kenya, Kenyan, Malakwen, Nandi, Praise song, ILAM | Praise song with Kipukandet 5 string lyre (5 or 6 string pentatonic lyre used by Nandi tribe in Kenya, also known as Kibugantet and Chepkong.) This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, like the Bongwe zither of Nyasaland. This gave 2 chords. Notes 1, 3 and 5 and notes 2 and 4. One string, they said, was missing, the lower octave of number 1. The scale was: 308,256,232,206,180, (154) vs. The Nandi, like the Kipsigis, their relatives, are given to singing praise songs about people and places familiar to them and beloved by all. This is an example of such a song in which people, places and chiefs all come in for approbation and appreciation., May be purchased from http://www.systemrecords.co.uk/traditional-hugh-tracey-kenyan-songs-strings-1950-1952-p-970291.html
- Composer: Teituk Arap Sumeiyot (Performer)Teituk Arap Sumeiyot (Composer) | 1950/09/15 | East African, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Kipugandet lyre, Praise song, Sumeiyot,Teituk Arap, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6L 28
- Composer: Teituk Arap Sumeiyet (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | East African, Indigenous music, Kapkatet, Kenya, Kibugandet lyre, Kipsigis, Praise song, Sumeiyot,Teituk Arap, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2130.
- Artist(s): Henga menTumbuku men | Composer: A. Mpusi Mutali (Composer) | 1952/01/15 | Henga, Henga, Mufelera, Mutali,Alick Mpusi, Northern African, Northern Rhodesia, Praise song, Tumbuka, Tumbuku, Zambia, ILAM | Song is sung in praise of the Paramount Chief. Further details refer to ILAM field card (F1F6)
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