Swahili epic poerty: a musical study
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Abstract
- Abstract
- While a good deal of attention has been paid by linguists to Swahili epic poetry, which in performance is sung and not spoken, the music has received hardly any treatment. This essay is a study of the music of one of these epics. As far as I know it is the first time that an extended transcription of this music has appeared. Only by having available such transcriptions can we hope to solve the various questions of a musical nature which these epics raise
Description
- Description
- pages: 105-129
Subjects
- Subject
- African Music
People & roles
- Author
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Jones, A. M.
Value Annotations
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- Is Part Of
- SOAS University of London
Origins & context
- Title
- Swahili epic poerty: a musical study
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
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Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Current Location
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Rhodes University
- Created Date
- November 30, 1975
Rights & access
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-01f1
- Identifier
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1619
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- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number