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Author Gunderson, Frank D., author.

Title Sukuma labor songs from Western Tanzania : we never sleep, we dream of farming / by Frank Gunderson.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 535 pages) : illustrations, maps, music.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series African sources for African history, 1567-6951 ; v. 11
African sources for African history ; v. 11.
Note Texts of labor songs with translation into English, musical transcriptions, and commentary.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-495) and indexes.
Contents Songs of the Bayeye (snake hunters) and the Banuunguli (porcupine hunters) -- Songs of the Bayege (elephant hunters) -- Songs of the Baja Nyalaja (Lake Eyasi salt caravaners) -- Songs of the Bapagati (long-distance porters) -- Songs of the Balugu (warriors) and Barugaruga (mercenaries) -- Songs of Askaris (conscripted soldiers) -- Songs of reciprocal village labor -- Songs of the Bagobogobo ("skin wearers") and Bakomyaluume ("dew steppers") competitive farming associations -- Songs of the Bagobogobo in praise of the hoe -- Songs of the Balimi (farmers) concerning disease, drought, and famine -- Songs of nationalist praise for TANU, Julius Nyerere, and Uhuru -- Songs of political discourse during the Ujamaa Epoch (1967-1985) -- Songs concerning the war against Idi Amin -- Songs of praise for the CCM since Julius Nyerere's presidency (1985-1995) -- Songs of the Basungusungu (village vigilante associations).
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Language Text in English, Sukuma and Swahili.
Subject Work songs -- Tanzania -- History and criticism.
Work songs.
Tanzania.
Work songs -- Tanzania -- Texts.
Genre/Form Texts.
Subject Folk songs, Sukuma -- Tanzania -- History and criticism.
Folk songs, Sukuma.
Folk songs, Swahili -- Tanzania -- History and criticism.
Folk songs, Swahili.
Sukuma (African people) -- Music -- History and criticism.
Sukuma (African people)
Music.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Gunderson, Frank D. Sukuma labor songs from Western Tanzania. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004184688 (DLC) 2010015729 (OCoLC)601048221
ISBN 9789004187603 (electronic book)
900418760X (electronic book)
9789004184688
9004184686
1282952714
9781282952713