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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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Gunderson, Frank D.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
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 author collaborated with several Tanzanian scholars and translators towards fine-tuning the translation of these texts into English, and gathered testimonies in order to create succinct interpretive statements about the songs. The African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology is pleased to announce that the 2012 Kwabena Nketia Book Prize has been awarded to Frank Gunderson for his book, Sukuma Labor Songs from Western Tanzania: \'We Never Sleep, We Dream of Farming , published by Brill in 2010. Grounded in nearly twenty years of ethnographic research, we congratulate Professor Gunderson for this excellent publication in African music studies
Umfang:
1 online resource (567 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Texts of labor songs with translation into English, musical transcriptions, and commentary.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:
9786612952715
9781282952713
1282952714
9789004187603
900418760X
ISSN:
1567-6951 ;
Schlagworte:
Work songs > Tanzania > History and criticism.
Work songs > Tanzania > Texts.
Folk songs, Sukuma > Tanzania > History and criticism.
Folk songs, Swahili > Tanzania > History and criticism.
Sukuma (African people) > Music > History and criticism.
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