ITEM
Maua (Semehu ya pili) Item Info
Maua (Semehu ya pili) - item
- Object ID:
- demo_0990
- Creator:
- Columbia
- Type of Sound:
- Music
- Instruments:
- Vocalist
- Type of Music:
- Wimbo
- Record Language:
- Kiswahili
- Date:
- 1937
- Identifier:
- WEQ 1
- Linked Recording:
- demo_0989
- Rights:
- metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights
- Description:
- This recording belongs to a series of records of African folk music gathered in a section of Columbia's 1938 general catalog under the title "Songs of Africa". Many of these records are related to the Italian colonial empire established in Libya and East Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia), either by language (Arabic, Somali, Dancali) or by the origin of the native musicians recorded. Released after the foundation of Italian East Africa, they cover only part of North and East Africa, and do not include parts of the continent not colonized by Italy or close to its colonies. These records can be seen both as the harvesting of some of the resources, in this case cultural, of the colonized territories, as a means of familiarizing the Italian people with the indigenous cultures of the former Italian colonies in Libya and Somalia, but also, perhaps, as a means of fuelling or responding to an Italian interest in East Africa and the expansion of Italian East Africa beyond Ethiopia and Somalia. This effort at familiarization could ultimately encourage the establishment of settlers from Italy to develop the colonized territories and reinforce their appropriation by the regime, or work the consent of Italians to Fascist imperialism in Africa. The catalog states that this recording was made in Columbia's "laboratory" in Milan by "indigenous elements expressly hired" for the purpose.
- Online Resources:
- -
- Performers:
- Budda Bin Mwendo Na Wenziwe
- Instruments:
- Vocalist
- Genre:
- Wimbo
- Sound Type:
- Music
- Recording Language:
- Kiswahili
- Related Record:
- demo_0989
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Maua (Semehu ya pili)", REDIRE Database, Bonn Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH)
- Reference Link:
- http://localhost:4000/items/demo_0990.html
Rights
- Rights:
- metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights
- Standardized Rights:
- Dischi Columbia, Catalogo generale, 1938