Chemirocha I
- Authors: Bekyibei Arap Mosonick with Cherwo Arap Korogorem , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-09-15
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kericho f-sa
- Language: Kipsigis
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/199270 , vital:46089 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR0234 , Research no.XYZ5518
- Description: Praise song accompanied by a Kibugandet 5 string lyre
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-09-15
Chemirocha I
- Authors: Bekyibei Arap Mosonick with Cherwo Arap Korogorem , 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/10962/177011 , vital:42781 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-15
- Description: The main theme of this song is affection for the Kipsigis country. He also asks 'why the white men 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 pronounciation of 'Jimmy Rodgers' whose gramophone records were the first to be heard in the district. It is now synonymous for anything strange or new. Praise song with Chepkong 6 string bowl lyre.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950