Songs of the Watutsi

Various Artists FW04428 / FE 4428

The Watutsi are a pastoral ethnic group from Rwanda. While drums are an important feature of Watusi music—and among them drums are played with sticks rather than with the hands—Songs of the Watutsi offers instead a collection of Watutsi ballads, love songs, genealogies, hunting songs, war songs, and epics. Liner notes include a detailed description of the Watutsi people along with track notes and pictures.

Country(s) Rwanda
Culture Group(s) Tutsi
Keyword(s) World music
Instrument(s) Harp

Year of Recording 1952
Record Label Folkways Records
Source Archive Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Credits Produced by Leo A. Verwilghen ; Recorded by Leo A. Verwilghen ; Design by Ronald Clyne

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101	Uwejeje Imana	n/a	3:39
102	Inka Yi Abajiji	n/a	3:20
103	Exploits of the Urwintwali	Muyunzwe	3:25
104	Ibabazabahizi	Muyunzwe	3:35
105	Warriors of the Urwintwali	Muyunzwe	2:21
106	Song of King Rwogera's Era	Rusendezagekwe	3:19
201	Amahamba	Murunganwa	1:38
202	Inganji Mu Milimba	Ruhumiliza	2:07
203	Imigemba	Rwandoka, Ruhumiliza, and Naho	3:03
204	Ikigwiti	Ruhenzi	2:26
205	Amararo	Ruhenzi	1:44
206	Munyangago (Hunting Song)	n/a	2:00

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