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Embrukoi | FOLK MUSIC

Title: 
Embrukoi
Audio: 

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Description: 

Embrukoi dance song for men and women. The Embrukoi dance is characterised by highleaps into the air with a rigid body. The dancers will leap as much as 18 inches clear into the air, at the same time giving a characteristic lift to the chin. The song praises his friends who kill lions. He sings also that he himself found a lion beside the path and killed it with his spear, a not uncommon feat among these people. He also sings of a faction fight in his district between neighbouring villages. This is a well known song in the Arusha District. The use of a thin falsetto by the solo singer quite belies the look of the man, which is far from being effeminate and typical of the younf Masai moran.

Composer: 

Ndasimi Sarubare (Performer)
Composer not specified

Artist(s): 

Arusha men

Date: 
1952-00-00
Format: 

78 RPM shellac record

Format: 

00:02:38

Format: 

Sound Forge v. 8

Format: 

Technics SP - 10 MK II direct drive turntable

Format: 

Vestax BDT - 2500 belt drive turntable

Format: 

Studer Revox Interface SP 10-8

Source: 

Shellac record number: CR2046

Source: 

Master number: XYZ5679

Source: 

Recording number: GB1460

Source: 

ILAM number: 2298

Source: 

ILAM number: 898

Rights: 

International Library of African Music

Publisher: 

International Library of African Music

Identifier (disa): 
mus1952-00-00.036.018.CR2046-GB1460-XYZ5679
Identifier (original): 
CR2046-GB1460-XYZ5679
Identifier (greenstone export db): 
10628