- 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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