Sudanese Music Festivals
It is well known that when the Sudanese sing, the lyrics they sing attract warm feelings coloured with the rhythm of the fifth musical scale. There are so many kinds of lyrics in the Sudanese poetic literature, which include sentimental poetry, political poetry, and traditional seasonal and occasional poetry. However, the third kind of the Sudanese lyrics includes the two first kinds of lyrics sometimes.
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- Sudanese Music
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- Sudanese Music Influences the JAZZ
- Sudanese Music from the Northern
- Sudanese JAZZ Music
- Shared Influence in the Sudanese Music
- The Grassroots Development
- Traditional Sudanese Song is Called Bag's Song
- Social Impact of the Sudanese Music
- Socio-political Impact of the Sudanese Music
- Productivity Factors in the Sudanese Music!
- Sudanese Music
- Great-Awarded Sudanese Songs
- The Sera Songs are Biographical Songs
- Sudanese Unity in Diversity!
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- The Sudanese Music goes into Nomadic Couplets Too!
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- The Political Song Enriches the Sudanese Music!
- The Sudanese Music and the Nonalignment Movement
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Seasonal and Occasional Songs!
The seasonal songs accompany people's movement during the seasons of the year and especially during the seasons of their agricultural and pastoral activities. So, these kinds of the Sudanese songs come original, pure and natural to epitomize the way they are living, their warm feelings and the bonds they have to tie them to their surroundings.These kinds of Sudanese songs are actually sung the first time without any musical instruments. They follow those activities to elevate their souls and abilities to do the job and embellish the field of their activities with warm pictures to amuse themselves. The songs describe these activities and the atmosphere of these activities.
The Sudanese music in such kinds of songs is embedded into the lyrics itself. It inhabits the tones of the words and phrases they sing. They actually make the tones using their own musical notes throughout their throats.
The Sudanese music goes through different kinds of lyrics following the tones of the verses in the traditional occasional songs. As there are, songs for marriage called epithalamiums, those songs come in two different kinds, one of them is for the bride and the other is for the bridegroom. Both of them praise the bride, the bridegroom and of course their families and grandparents.
The lyrics in these kinds of music describe the sincerity, bravery, kindness, mystical feelings, wealth and generosity of the spouses and their ancestries.
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Sudanese Music Influences the JAZZ
Music of the West by Its Musical Fifth Scale!
Here is how the Music, Songs and Dances look like!Starting from the far northern Sudan, the music in Sudan "wears" this warm rhythm. It follows a different rhythm in the musical fifth scale, which is so different from the seventh musical scale of the Middle East.
This different musical scale is influencing the Jazz music, as the Sudanese singer Hamad el-Rayah said early in the eightieth (1980-1984) when I interviewed him behind the curtain, during a concert party in the Faculty of Law in the University of Kuwait.
Sudanese Music from the Northern
Sudan - Nubian Music - Heartedly Warm
Sudanese sing in varied dialects. Those dialects are making musical tones without musical instruments. However, the musical fifth scale adds to them a warm rhythm. They actually express their unity in diversity until politics amalgamated with fundamental religious beliefs interferes not to prohibit music only, but to shrink this unity in diversity.
Political systems after the independence prove that they always amalgamate with fundamental religious beliefs during two kinds of dictatorship I and other intellectuals call the military dictatorship (and this is obviously well known) and the civil dictatorship, which is unknown yet. However, we got its concept from the political practices throughout the Sudanese modern history.
Political systems after the independence prove that they always amalgamate with fundamental religious beliefs during two kinds of dictatorship I and other intellectuals call the military dictatorship (and this is obviously well known) and the civil dictatorship, which is unknown yet. However, we got its concept from the political practices throughout the Sudanese modern history.
Sudanese JAZZ Music
Sherhabeel Ahmed - Jazz Music
The Sudanese Jazz takes its music and wording to invent new areas in the Sudanese music. It keeps the Sudanese traditions and customs warm and diversified too. It makes this diversity amalgamated in the rainbow of the Sudanese music. This is why these Sudanese kinds of arts are exceptional.
Shared Influence in the Sudanese Music
and the Neighbouring Countries' Music!
The neighbouring countries at the east, as Eritrea and Ethiopia, the neighbouring countries at the south as Kenya, Uganda and Central African Republic take the Sudanese musical rhythm to colour it with their accents and dances. However, they have their musical fifth scale too and it is making unity in diversity too. This is actually, what brings people to unite through music and solve their darn political problems. Music gets the people together and it has a powerful political message to rebuild the forgotten unity and reunion the people in the IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development). The Grassroots Development
of the Sudanese Song
This module highlights the development of the Sudanese songs through decades. Rich lyrics and musical environment in Sudan have streamlined the Sudanese songs with some stand-alone styles.People sang in Sudan before the development of TV shows, wireless technologies and cables throughout the planet. I found that it is difficult to translate some local terms in the Sudanese language into English, so I just worded them in English letters. I herein, gave them more highlights to explain what they mean.
Traditional Sudanese Song is Called Bag's Song
When the "Sudanese Song" began traditionally, it began with that local kind of songs called "Haqiba song" in which the Arabic term means "Bag". So, it is the "Bag's song" and it is still sung. In such public terms in the Sudanese Arabic language, people signalize the single word meaning the plural. However, they sometimes say "Haqiba songs".People hang with this song because it is intimate and pure and it presents a world of virginity, where virginity is the method and the ethic that develops the Sudanese moralities decades after decades. Then from the same kind of that Sudanese song came the "Tomtom" song, which performs with a different rhythm in the "Bag's Songs".
Social Impact of the Sudanese Music
Sudanese poet and lecturer in Sanaa University Mubarak Hassan Al Khalifa presented a lecture on the evolution of the Sudanese song in the "General Federation of Trade Unions of Kuwait" on October 1983. The lecturer highlighted the terms, methods and themes of the Sudanese songs. He analyzed the socio-political impact of the Sudanese song and its reflection on the local milieu."The - Sudanese Song - has been evolved, but we're still to say, there're songs for the bridegroom, the bride and other songs for different seasons and occasions." Thus, spoke the poet in one of his public lectures in Kuwait.
He explained how the old Sudanese song or the "Bag's Songs" transformed to modernity. The lecturer presented at the same time excerpts of some of them, capturing the attention of the audience and tidily focusing them on the history of the Sudanese song, its broadcast, transcendence, events and occasions.
Presenting his theses, the lecturer answered first the question of why the Sudanese song called the "Bag's Songs" starting from the 1920s and so far. He stated that had happened in a radio program when the programmers recorded the names of the songs on the papers and mixed them in a bag to withdraw from these papers whenever they wanted to broadcast a song.
Socio-political Impact of the Sudanese Music
This song began intimately to hit the emotional nerves of the people in Sudan with rich metaphoric, adjectival and descriptive images and sincere words of love describing the girl the poet or the singer fell in her love. However, in exceptional cases the poet or the singer made the song for other beautiful girls in a time that Sudanese girls had difficulties to get outdoors. The national traditions were tough, most of the girls had female genital mutilation (FGM) and girls only appear in social ceremonies with other women.Having the Sudanese traditional music touched the national nerves during the British colonization to the country, some pioneer singers and Sudanese poets symbolized some songs for the nation without having to mention it in their songs. They used names of girls to praise their dignity, honour, and generosity and they sang those songs for the nation. The first emotional and political song in this regard was a song called "Aazah". The name is simply a girl's name. This name symbolizes Sudan in the metaphoric, adjectival and descriptive poetry.
This national song energized the people. The people reacted to this song by organizing political movements to get their country free. In this circle of national influence, the 1924's revolution had strong impacts on the political struggle. Progressive national activities evolved to get the independence from Britain.
Productivity Factors in the Sudanese Music!
The records and pictures of various types and methods of the Sudanese songs presented distinctive singing, which has been associated with productivity factors, which in turn has contributed to such methods.Sudanese tutor Mubarak spoke about number of examples of this song. He included:
- singing of women on some social or individual activities while pounding grain during coffee or during agricultural activities;
- singing of mourners on some social mourning events, laminating their lost;
- singing of boatmen on board while they are working on boats or sailing;
- singing of porters or even their melody or ecstatic regular rhythm which comes in musical murmurs while they are carrying hard weights or shouting the word "Helahub" so many times to encourage each other.
These kinds of songs include also such methods of singing to children and children songs while dealing with toys, singsongs or lullaby during bedtime, which, intended to educate, amuse, or get children in rhythm and harmony with something.
The lecturer added to the records that this inheritance has created a climate from which the Sudanese "Bag's Songs" to contain various subjects and to bifurcate even within the framework of modernity.
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Great-Awarded Sudanese Songs
The "Bag's Songs" records prove that the old elaborated Sudanese song still emphasizes survival, although some may get tide to modernity. In fact, most of those "Bag's Songs" has gone under development with the use of the modern musical instruments instead of the old traditional musical instruments.The lecturer explained that there are two leads through the traditional way of a song and those kinds performed on rapid pace or lightweight and slow type. He pointed out that, factors of innovation in traditional dance style and the emergence of modern dancing or rapid turn has led to such a division in the wake witnessed of the Sudanese song in the 1940s, which has distinguished itself because of the rapid development of political shifts.
The Sera Songs are Biographical Songs
for the Bride and the Bridegroom!
The lecturer explained that those methods above include the awarded "Tomtom" song, which acquired its name from the rhythm of the drums used in such song, in addition to other types of songs known as "sera" songs. Those kinds of songs are actually "biographical" songs praising the bride, or the bridegroom while accompanying the bridegroom in a very intimate social march while singing to his bride's house.He said that, since the bridegroom has his songs in his day, the bride has also songs in her day called "songs of the bride". I think (in some events, some families do not allow the bride to do those dances in public because they are sexier than the forbidden dance "Lampada".
Sudanese Unity in Diversity!
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The Sudanese Music goes into Nomadic Couplets Too!
The Sudanese Music Inspires the Nomadic Couplets!
In the "neighbourhood" of so many big towns, there is another kind of singing in the rural districts known as couplet, "Addobait" in Arabic, and that kind is more poetic. While it is actually lyrics done by semi-nomads during pasture driving their animals, it runs sometimes, as I can see, in rivalry poetic and advances process. It includes poetry, called "Heda".
This kind of rhythm adds musical tones to lyrics while nomads are pasturing or travelling with their animals. The "Heda" is primary sang to make the camels hurry during mass march for grass or trade immigration. These kinds of songs actually inherited from the deep Arabic lyrics in its old style. Each of these methods images craft in vibrant social relations and humanitarian amalgamation and solidarity. (Author)
This kind of rhythm adds musical tones to lyrics while nomads are pasturing or travelling with their animals. The "Heda" is primary sang to make the camels hurry during mass march for grass or trade immigration. These kinds of songs actually inherited from the deep Arabic lyrics in its old style. Each of these methods images craft in vibrant social relations and humanitarian amalgamation and solidarity. (Author)
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The Political Song Enriches the Sudanese Music!
Another genre of the Sudanese Song is the "National Song". The lecturer pointed to records on national song coverage from the 1920s period, when the song "Among the Ribs of the Dearest Homeland" sprang to touch the national heart by storm. This national Sudanese song has become a norm and given a strong notion, which identifies the Sudanese political struggle during a sensitive period of Sudan history. That struggle which began popular by naturally socialist people to be inherited by landlords or military adventurers. (Author).
"In the heart, sponsored by care among the ribs of the dear nation" hides good and lovely wording in the lyrics, in the period following the Sudanese political revolution of the year 1924. Then starting from this period in the national political struggle, some national songs followed the national theme. Those themes unleashed the national feelings from fear and enriched it by logic, rationality and credibility while dealing with two kinds of imperialists, one was international and the other was regional (Author).
"In the heart, sponsored by care among the ribs of the dear nation" hides good and lovely wording in the lyrics, in the period following the Sudanese political revolution of the year 1924. Then starting from this period in the national political struggle, some national songs followed the national theme. Those themes unleashed the national feelings from fear and enriched it by logic, rationality and credibility while dealing with two kinds of imperialists, one was international and the other was regional (Author).
The Sudanese Music and the Nonalignment Movement
How the national song has built solidarity with other revolutions?Some national songs responded to the global liberation movements. Among these Sudanese national songs, some songs called for unity with Egypt, and sang lyrics against "Hitler" and "Mussolini" during the 2nd world war. Those national songs embodied the spirit of the people and all the hope and ambitions to gain unity, justice, peace and freedom.
In addition to a multitude of factors and circumstances during the national struggle, I consider these songs as national seeds of modern political struggle. We have not heard of someone who sang for the Nonalignment Movement during the warm struggle of the Non-aligned Countries in the mid 1950s, except from Sudan.
The Sudanese Music and the Afro-Asian Struggle!
The Spirit of Bandung Conference in a Sudanese Song!
Ustaz Tajesser el-Hassan wrote the first warm poetry "Asia and Africa" for the Nonalignment Movement during the struggle of the movement and after the conference of Bandung in 18-24 April 1955. Sudanese singer Abdul-Kareem Kabli sang the poetry and enriched it by his music to become a popular song. "I, my comrade have not visited Indonesia, Sukarno's land and have not seen Russia", was intimate song to most of those socialist people in Sudan. The song celebrates the national political struggles of many lands, like Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya, Indonesia, New China and the Russian Revolution.
The former Egyptian President Jamal Abdul Nasser, as one of the five leaders of Bandung Conference visited Khartoum in 1960 after the conference. He might have asked to hear the song as the first song the spirit of Bandung has inspired the poet to write it. Therefore, Alkabli sang "Asia and Africa" in the National Theatre of Omdurman.
A Couplet from the Chant
When I play, O Ye My Heart, the old anthems,
And the dawn rises on my Heart,
On the wings of a cloud
I shall sing and sing the last of the canzone
For the dearest land
For the black shadows in Kenya's forests and Malawi's
For my comrades in the Asian countries
For Malaya and the young Bandung
For the green nights of pleasure in New China
I am about to translate and publish the rest of it at the Squadron of Poets here.
The former Egyptian President Jamal Abdul Nasser, as one of the five leaders of Bandung Conference visited Khartoum in 1960 after the conference. He might have asked to hear the song as the first song the spirit of Bandung has inspired the poet to write it. Therefore, Alkabli sang "Asia and Africa" in the National Theatre of Omdurman.
A Couplet from the Chant
When I play, O Ye My Heart, the old anthems,
And the dawn rises on my Heart,
On the wings of a cloud
I shall sing and sing the last of the canzone
For the dearest land
For the black shadows in Kenya's forests and Malawi's
For my comrades in the Asian countries
For Malaya and the young Bandung
For the green nights of pleasure in New China
I am about to translate and publish the rest of it at the Squadron of Poets here.
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Khalid-Osman
Thanks Matthew, I hope we will sing together one day especially at the end of one of your sessions :-) Posted August 16, 2008 |
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cool lens, I enjoyed reading it... =) Posted August 12, 2008 |
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Done Kirsti. Thanks for invitation and for rating. I wish you music-filled days. Posted August 04, 2008 |
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