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  • Kipkemo Arap Sitonik and Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony
  • Africa Kenya Kapkatet f-ke
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Arap chemonget

- Kipkemo Arap Sitonik and Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony, Hugh Tracey


  • Authors: Kipkemo Arap Sitonik and Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapkatet f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176994 , vital:42779 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-13
  • Description: This lyre is strummed and fingered like the Bangwe zither of Nyasaland. The right hand strums the strings and the left mutes or opens the siz strings making it possible to play two or three chords on the open unmuted strings. The singer mentions by name his home village, places of common interest to his friends. The player flips the body of his lyre on the 2nd and 4th beats. In common with several African verse makers the singer sings in complets, repeating the second phrase and making it the first line of the next. Praise song with Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Arap chemonget

  • Authors: Kipkemo Arap Sitonik and Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapkatet f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176994 , vital:42779 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-13
  • Description: This lyre is strummed and fingered like the Bangwe zither of Nyasaland. The right hand strums the strings and the left mutes or opens the siz strings making it possible to play two or three chords on the open unmuted strings. The singer mentions by name his home village, places of common interest to his friends. The player flips the body of his lyre on the 2nd and 4th beats. In common with several African verse makers the singer sings in complets, repeating the second phrase and making it the first line of the next. Praise song with Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950
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Arap Kibaigong (The son of Kibaigong)

- Kipkemo Arap Sitonik and Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony, Hugh Tracey


  • Authors: Kipkemo Arap Sitonik and Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapkatet f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177653 , vital:42843 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR165-12
  • Description: The song tells the story of a certain man who was given a pig to look after. He failed to do so properly and was warned that he would be beaten for his negligence. "Arap" means "the son of". The two note chorus is typical of many Kipsigis songs. Topical song with Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre, laced.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Arap Kibaigong (The son of Kibaigong)

  • Authors: Kipkemo Arap Sitonik and Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapkatet f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177653 , vital:42843 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR165-12
  • Description: The song tells the story of a certain man who was given a pig to look after. He failed to do so properly and was warned that he would be beaten for his negligence. "Arap" means "the son of". The two note chorus is typical of many Kipsigis songs. Topical song with Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre, laced.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

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