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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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Sukuma Swahili |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | African sources for African history ;
v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxi, 535 pages) : illustrations, maps, music |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-495) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789004187603 900418760X 1282952714 9781282952713 |
| ISSN: | 1567-6951 ; |
| Acceso: | Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff. |