Sukuma labor songs from Western Tanzania :: we never sleep, we dream of farming /

This volume is an interpretive analysis of a collection of 335 song texts treated as primary historical sources. The collection highlights the cultural practices that link music with labor in Sukuma communities in northwestern Tanzania. These linkages are evident in the music of the elephant, snake,...

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1. Verfasser: Gunderson, Frank D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Sukuma
Swahili
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Schriftenreihe:African sources for African history ; v. 11.
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Zusammenfassung:This volume is an interpretive analysis of a collection of 335 song texts treated as primary historical sources. The collection highlights the cultural practices that link music with labor in Sukuma communities in northwestern Tanzania. These linkages are evident in the music of the elephant, snake, and porcupine hunting associations that flourished in the precolonial epoch, in the nineteenth-century regional and long-distance porter associations, and in the farmer associations that have proliferated since the beginning of the twentieth century. Acting primarily as an interpretive editor, the.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxxi, 535 pages) : illustrations, maps, music
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-495) and indexes.
ISBN:9789004187603
900418760X
1282952714
9781282952713
ISSN:1567-6951 ;
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