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A SURVEY OF SWAHILI SONGS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
| Author: | Knappert, Jan | |
| Year: | 2004 | |
| Pages: | 560 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-6443-3 978-0-7734-6443-8 | |
| Price: | $319.95 | |
This massive book of Swahili songs, with English translations, contains 28 chapters of categorized songs. Contains a long introduction setting the songs in historical context.
Table of Contents
Table of contents:
Preface; Introduction
Songs of dance, love, for children, for women, philosophical, proverbs, work, coconut cultivation, travelers, sailors, fishermen, boatmen, prayers, message, praise, defiance & mockery, battle, rhyming riddles or songs of secrets, politics, wedding; Ghazal; serenade, Siti Binti Saad, songs with allusions, curse songs, Christian hymns in Swahili, Tarabu songs, Antecedents of World War I in Swahili literature; Uprising of 1905; A Gungu Song in the Gunya Dialect.
Appendix: Genres of Swahili Songs
Glossary
Bibliography
Preface; Introduction
Songs of dance, love, for children, for women, philosophical, proverbs, work, coconut cultivation, travelers, sailors, fishermen, boatmen, prayers, message, praise, defiance & mockery, battle, rhyming riddles or songs of secrets, politics, wedding; Ghazal; serenade, Siti Binti Saad, songs with allusions, curse songs, Christian hymns in Swahili, Tarabu songs, Antecedents of World War I in Swahili literature; Uprising of 1905; A Gungu Song in the Gunya Dialect.
Appendix: Genres of Swahili Songs
Glossary
Bibliography