Mawaidha

Title: Mawaidha
Performer / Recordist: Kaluta Amir Bin Abedi; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Folk music--Tanzania; Swahili-speaking peoples; Field recordings
Description / content note: "With the name of the Lord I should begin. And with his name I should finish. That I may compose them evenly with good things exultingly." Much of the Mashairi poetry, they say, is religious in nature. The African authors demonstrate the extent to which Arab culture has penetrated along the old trade routes. The speaker was fluent in Arabic and his Swahili appears to be more 'classical' than usual. Mashairi sung poems
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Swahili
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Tanzania Kigoma
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR169; 5
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:54
File format: wav
Sample Rate: 15 ips reel
Digitisation (original): 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo; Studer B67 Recorder; Sound Forge V.6
Rights Holder: International Library of African Music
License: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Access Rights: Public
Is Part Of: ILAM Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series
Format: audio/mp3
Genre: field recordings
handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179415