Sukuma labor songs from Western Tanzania
Subtitle: we never sleep, we dream of farming
By: by Frank Gunderson
Series: African sources for African history -- v. 11; African sources for African history -- v. 11.
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9789004184688
Notes: Texts of labor songs with translation into English, musical transcriptions, and commentary.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [487]-495) and indexes.

Text in English, Sukuma and Swahili.
Table of contents: title: Songs of the Bayeye (snake hunters) and the Banuunguli (porcupine hunters); title: Songs of the Bayege (elephant hunters); title: Songs of the Baja Nyalaja (Lake Eyasi salt caravaners); title: Songs of the Bapagati (long-distance porters); title: Songs of the Balugu (warriors) and Barugaruga (mercenaries); title: Songs of Askaris (conscripted soldiers); title: Songs of reciprocal village labor; title: Songs of the Bagobogobo ("skin wearers") and Bakomyaluume ("dew steppers") competitive farming associations; title: Songs of the Bagobogobo in praise of the hoe; title: Songs of the Balimi (farmers) concerning disease, drought, and famine; title: Songs of nationalist praise for TANU, Julius Nyerere, and Uhuru; title: Songs of political discourse during the Ujamaa Epoch (1967-1985); title: Songs concerning the war against Idi Amin; title: Songs of praise for the CCM since Julius Nyerere's presidency (1985-1995); title: Songs of the Basungusungu (village vigilante associations).