Mwomboko

Artist(s): 
Chinda Kamwana (Performer)
Date: 
1952/05/24
Format: 
78 RPM Shellac Record
Source: 
Shellac record number: TP3032
Publisher: 
International Library of African Music
Rights: 
International Library of African Music
Identifier (greenstone export db): 
6761
Identifier (original): 
TP3032-XYZ7234
Identifier (disa): 
mus1952-05-24.036.018.TP3032-XYZ7234
Keywords: 
Description: 

A topical song with accordian and struck iron. The accordian is used as a ground which creates a happy noise but has little, if any, melodic or harmonic relationship to the tonality or mode of the voice.Song to accompany a town dance in which men and women dance together in pairs, after the fashion of Europeans.Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3B 6