CiNii Books - Sukuma labor songs from Western Tanzania : we never sleep, we dream of farming

This volume is an interpretive analysis of a collection of 335 song texts treated as primary historical sources. The collection highlights the cultural practices that link music with labor in Sukuma communities in northwestern Tanzania. These linkages are evident in the music of the elephant, snake, and porcupine hunting associations that flourished in the precolonial epoch, in the nineteenth-century regional and long-distance porter associations, and in the farmer associations that have proliferated since the beginning of the twentieth century. Acting primarily as an interpretive editor, the author collaborated with several Tanzanian scholars and translators towards fine-tuning the translation of these texts into English, and gathered testimonies in order to create succinct interpretive statements about the songs. The African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology is pleased to announce that the 2012 Kwabena Nketia Book Prize has been awarded to Frank Gunderson for his book, Sukuma Labor Songs from Western Tanzania: "We Never Sleep, We Dream of Farming, published by Brill in 2010. Grounded in nearly twenty years of ethnographic research, we congratulate Professor Gunderson for this excellent publication in African music studies

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CONTENTS Editors' Introduction ......................................................................... ix Acknowledgments .............................................................................. xiii List of Illustrations ............................................................................ xv List of Figures and Maps .................................................................. xvii Key to Abbreviations and Symbols ................................................ xix Notes on Orthography, Translation and Transliteration ........... xxi Key to Sukuma Musical Labor Genres .......................................... xxv Village Locator Chart and Area Maps ........................................... xxix Introduction ........................................................................................ 1 Scope of the Project ...................................................................... 1 Organization and Nature of the Collection .............................. 4 From Work Song to Musical Labor ........................................... 7 Sukuma Song Texts as Sources for History .............................. 13 The History of Sukuma Nganda (Clans) ................................... 15 Sukuma Competitive Performance, Music Aesthetics, and Form ............................ 18 I. Songs of the Bayeye (Snake Hunters) and the Banuunguli (Porcupine Hunters) ... 25 II. Songs of the Bayege (Elephant Hunters) .............................. 73 III. Songs of the Baja Nyalaja (Lake Eyasi Salt Caravaners) ... 112 IV. Songs of the Bapagati (Long-Distance Porters) .................. 121 V. Songs of the Balugu (Warriors) and Barugaruga (Mercenaries) ................ 136 VI. Songs of the Askaris (Conscripted Soldiers) ........................ 152 VII. Songs of Reciprocal Village Labor ......................................... 171 VIII. Songs of the Bagobogobo ('Skin Wearers') and Bakomyaluume ('Dew Steppers') Competitive Farming Associations ............................................................................. 226 IX. Songs of the Bagobogobo in Praise of the Hoe .................. 264 X. Songs of Balimi (Farmers) Concerning Disease, Drought, and Famine ............ 300 XI. Songs of Nationalist Praise for TANU, Julius Nyerere, and Uhuru ...................... 332 XII. Songs of Political Discourse during the Ujamaa Epoch (1967-1985) ............... 354 XIII. Songs Concerning the War against Idi Amin .................... 395 XIV. Songs of Praise for the CCM since Julius Nyerere's Presidency (1985-1995) ................ 406 XV. Songs of the Basungusungu (Village Vigilante Associations) ............................................... 435 Concluding Remarks: The Fluidity of Sukuma Musical Labor Genres ....... 453 Appendices I. Glossary of Sukuma Music-Related Terms ....................... 455 II. Sukuma Aphorisms Related to Music and Labor ............ 470 III. Significant Events in Sukuma History ................................ 473 IV. List of Interviews Cited ......................................................... 476 V. Extended Oral Biographies of Select Commentators ....... 481 Bibliographic Sources ........................................................................ 487 Indices Song Title (First Line) Index ....................................................... 497 Kisukuma Titles ........................................................................ 497 English Titles ............................................................................. 503 Singer Index ................................................................................... 511 Teacher and Composer Index ..................................................... 513 Thematic and Topical Keyword Index ...................................... 514 Personal Name Index ................................................................... 519 Geographical Index ....................................................................... 524 Genre Index .................................................................................... 526 Time Period Index ........................................................................ 527 Region Collected Index ................................................................ 529 Collector Index .............................................................................. 530 Recording Index ............................................................................ 531 Author Index ...................................................................................... 534

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