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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Wedding Songs from Mombasa |
Author: | Knappert, Jan |
Year: | 1974 |
Periodical: | Africana Marburgensia |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 11-32 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | Swahili language songs (form) Women's Issues Architecture and the Arts Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
Abstract: | The nine songs presented here were collected in Mombasa in 1969. In the vocabulary, phonology and morphology they show a relationship between the dialects from the north and standard-Swahili. The songs have different metric (tarabu and wimbo). Footnotes, summaries in German and French. |