Wachawe wananipata

Title: Wachawe wananipata
Creator: Simai Bini Ali with Swahili men
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Folk music--Tanzania
Subject: Swahili-speaking peoples
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa Tanzania Zanzibar f-tz
Date Issued: 1950
Date: 1950
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179884
Identifier: vital:43245
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR171-01
Description: This short song is used for waking up the people for their last meal-the second of the night during the fast of Ramadhan. The singers go around singing and playing the drum at about 1-2 a.m. It is a picturesque Swahili/Mohammedan custom. The to membranes of the bass drum are tuned to different notes. Kigoma cha daku songs, with 2 tin rattles, 1 double-sided bass drum.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:01:00
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Swahili
Rights: International Library of African Music
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

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