Chemirocha (I)

Artist(s): 

Cherwo Arap KorogoremBekyibei Arap Mosonick

Date: 

1950/09/15

Format: 

78 RPM shellac record

00:02:40

Source: 

Shellac record number: CR0234-CR0237

Master number: XYZ5518

Recording number: 5518

Research number: D6L 6

Tape number: 137

Library number: 1560

Sound of Africa series number: TR-164 B5

Publisher: 

International Library of African Music

Rights: 

International Library of African Music

Identifier (greenstone export db): 
8989
Identifier (original): 

CR0234-XYZ5518

Identifier (disa): 

mus1950-09-15.036.018.CR0234-XYZ5518

Keywords: 
Description: 

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