Kenneth Gourlay Uganda Collection
ECWA church song
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Type
sound
Duration
00:03:54
Cultures
Nigeria
Shelf mark
2CDR0006171 (copy of C105/32)
Recording date
1976-01-24
Is part of (Collection)
Ken Gourlay collection
Recording locations
ECWA church, Kafanchan township, Kaduna State, Nigeria
Description
All notes transcribed from spoken announcements on tapes: The fourth record is .... Jesu ?? [local language]; [percussion starts - 65-member women's choir supported by 5 or 6 pot-shaped kimkim, 1 dumbell-shaped kimkim and 3 gourd rattles singing western-style hymns antiphonally]; [ECWA: Evangelical Church of West Africa - See also: Ames, David W. and Gourlay, Ken A. (1978): "Kimkim: A Woman's Musical Pot" from African Arts 11 (2) p.60][For detailed notes and cross references see: "A descriptive catalogue of recorded sound" compiled by Ken A Gourlay for the musicology section of the Centre for Nigerian Cultural Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria].
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