Mahaba

Title: Mahaba
Performer / Recordist: Kaluta Amri Bin Abedi; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Folk music--Tanzania; Swahili-speaking peoples; Field recordings
Description / content note: "What awakens love, is fair and kind. When the heart's seed is touched. How wondorous sweet and how it burns. He loves not foolishly who loves the giver. The Mashairi poem gives greater scope for love poetry than the usual African song. Short poem revealing an interesting side of the African poet's mind. Mashairi sung poem
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; 8
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:03:09
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/10962/179442