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Music Performance on 19th-Century Sukuma-Nyamwezi Caravans to the Swahili Coast

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: This article examines the utility and significance of music performed on 19th- century caravans journeying between the inland East African Sukuma-Nyamwezi and interlacustrine regions, and the Swahili coast. This research will show that through music and “soundscape production”, Sukuma-Nymawezi porters or bapagati maintained their identity and dignity albeit intermittently, in spite of the rigors sustained on the long march.

Source: African Music Journal of the International Library of African Music

DOI: 10.21504/amj.v8i2.1779

Author: Frank Gunderson

Institution: Society for Ethnomusicology

Language: English

Topic: Diverse Musicological Studies

Subfield: Music

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Endowment for the Humanities

OpenAlex ID: W2233691593

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Cites: 5

Cited by: 1

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