Mnapowacha madogo

Title: Mnapowacha madogo
Performer / Recordist: Saadani Abdu Kandoro; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Folk music--Tanzania; Swahili-speaking peoples; Field recordings
Description / content note: "If you neglect small things, you will also neglect the larger." The poets who compose and recite Mashairi are very conscious of their high purpose. It is interesting to see the African mind unfolding in this Arab art form, and using the poem for moral teaching. 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; 6
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:14
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/10962/179424