Taarab, the Glossary
Taarab is a music genre popular in Tanzania and Kenya.[1]
Table of Contents
40 relations: African Great Lakes, Album, Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar, Bi Kidude, Bloomington, Indiana, Bongo Flava, Burundi, Chicago, Claves, Dar es Salaam, Egypt, Helsinki, Indian subcontinent, Indiana University Press, Kenya, Kidumbaki, Malindi, Maraca, Mdundiko, Middle East, Mkuki na Nyota, Mombasa, Music genre, Music of Tanzania, New York City, North Africa, Paris, Qanun (instrument), Rabih Abou-Khalil, Routledge, Rwanda, Singeli, Siti binti Saad, Swahili culture, Tanga, Tanzania, Tanzania, Uganda, University of Chicago Press, Unyago, Zanzibar.
- Culture of Zanzibar
- Kenyan styles of music
- Tanzanian styles of music
African Great Lakes
The African Great Lakes (Maziwa Makuu; Ibiyaga bigari) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift.
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Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.
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Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar
Sayyid Barghash bin Said al-Busaidi (1836 – 26 March 1888) (برغش بن سعيد البوسعيدي), an Omani Sultan and the son of Said bin Sultan, was the second Sultan of Zanzibar.
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Bi Kidude
Fatuma binti Baraka (فاطمة بنت بركة‎; – 17 April 2013), popularly known as Bi Kidude, was a Zanzibari-born Tanzanian Taarab singer. Taarab and bi Kidude are culture of Zanzibar.
Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County, Indiana, United States.
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Bongo Flava
Bongo Flava is a nickname for Tanzanian music. Taarab and Bongo Flava are Tanzanian styles of music.
Burundi
Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa.
Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.
Claves
Claves are a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of short, wooden sticks about 20–25 centimeters (8–10 inches) long and about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in diameter.
Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam (from lit) is the largest city and financial hub of Tanzania.
Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
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Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.
Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.
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Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.
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Kidumbaki
Kidumbaki or kidumbak is a Zanzibari musical genre. Taarab and kidumbaki are Tanzanian styles of music.
Malindi
Malindi is a town on Malindi Bay at the mouth of the Sabaki River, lying on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya.
Maraca
A maraca, sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.
Mdundiko
Mdundiko is one of the traditional and ritual dances (ngoma) of the Zaramo people living in the Dar es Salaam area, in Tanzania. Taarab and Mdundiko are Tanzanian styles of music.
Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
Mkuki na Nyota
Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Ltd (MNP) is a book publishing company that was founded in 1981 in response to the general absence of independent scholarly publishing in Tanzania.
Mombasa
Mombasa is a coastal city in southeastern Kenya along the Indian Ocean.
Music genre
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.
Music of Tanzania
As it is in other countries, the music in Tanzania is constantly undergoing changes, and varies by location, people, settings and occasion.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
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Qanun (instrument)
The qanun, kanun, ganoun or kanoon (qānūn; k’anon; qānūn; kanonáki, qanun; قانون, qānūn; kanun; qanun) is a Middle Eastern string instrument played either solo, or more often as part of an ensemble, in much of Iran, Arab East, and Arab Maghreb region of North Africa, later it reached West Africa, Central Asia due to Arab migration.
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Rabih Abou-Khalil
Rabih Abou-Khalil (ربيع أبو خليل, born August 17, 1957) is an oud player and composer born in Lebanon, who combines elements of Arabic music with jazz, classical music, and other styles.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Rwanda
Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Singeli
Singeli or sometimes called Sengeli is a Tanzanian music genre that originated with the Zaramo in the Mtogole neighborhood of the Tandale ward in Kinondoni District of Dar es Salaam Region around the mid-2000s. Taarab and Singeli are Tanzanian styles of music.
Siti binti Saad
Siti binti Saad (1880– August 1950) was a pioneering Tanzanian musician in the taarab musical style.
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Swahili culture
Swahili culture is the culture of the Swahili people inhabiting the Swahili coast.
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Tanga, Tanzania
Tanga (Jiji la Tanga, in Swahili) is a historic city and the capital of Tanga Region.
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Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Unyago
In Swahili culture, most notably in Zanzibar and in some areas of western Kenya, the word unyago refers both to a set of rituals and to the music and dance styles that are traditionally associated with such rituals. Taarab and unyago are Kenyan styles of music and Tanzanian styles of music.
Zanzibar
Zanzibar is an insular semi-autonomous region which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.
See also
Culture of Zanzibar
- Bao (game)
- Beni (music)
- Bi Kidude
- Hawalis
- Kutchi-Swahili
- Mohamed Issa Haji 'Matona'
- Religion in Zanzibar
- Taarab
- Zanzibari cuisine
- Zenji flava
Kenyan styles of music
Tanzanian styles of music
- Benga music
- Beni (music)
- Bongo Flava
- East African urban music
- Kidumbaki
- Mdundiko
- Muziki wa dansi
- Ngoma music
- Singeli
- Taarab
- Tanzanian hip hop
- Unyago
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taarab
Also known as Taarab music, Taraab, Tarabu, Twarab.