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Sudanese Music Table of Contents!
- Sudanese Music - Seasonal and Occasional Songs!
- Sudanese Music on a Video Project in YouTube!
- Sudanese Music Influences the JAZZ Music of the West by Its Musical Fifth Scale!
- Sudanese Music from Northern Sudan - Nubian Music - Heartedly Warm!
- Sudanese JAZZ Music
- Shared Influence in the Sudanese Music
- The Grassroots Development of the Sudanese Song!
- 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 is a theme in Multicultural Projects!
- Great-Awarded Sudanese Songs
- The Sera Songs are Biographical Songs for the Bride and the Bridegroom!
- Sudanese Unity in Diversity!
- Reader Feedback on the main theme of the Sudanese Music Lenses!
- The Sudanese Music goes into Nomadic Couplets Too!
- New YouTube Voting (Plexo)
- The Political Song Enriches the Sudanese Music!
- The Sudanese Music and the Nonalignment Movement
- The Sudanese Music and the Afro-Asian Struggle!
- Travelling to Indonesia?
- Sudanese Musical Instruments!
- Sudanese Music Supports the Squadron of Poets
- Mambo Becomes the Lightweight Dance in the Rhythm!
- Obama The Sudanese!
- More about Sudan from Amazon
- Text List Voting (Plexo) for the Best Sudanese Songs!
- Political Impacts on the Sudanese Music Locally and Internationally!
- New Amazon Voting (Plexo)
- Love in the Sudanese Music! What is Honourable and what is Dishonourable?
- Ezine Act's Blogate
- Twitter Follows Sudanese Music!
- Sudanese Music - Relevant topics!
- Relevant Network! Khalid Osman's Network of Blogs!
- Please sign Sudanese Music Guestbook!
- Did you know? Random Facts just beyond the Sudanese Music!
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Sudanese Music - 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.
Sudanese Music on a Video Project in YouTube!
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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 Northern Sudan - Nubian Music - Heartedly Warm!
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
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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 main theme of the Sudanese Music Lenses is to strengthen the Sudanese Unity in Diversity!
Let us discuss how the Music can inspire people to impose strong process to maintain the Sudanese unity in diversity!
How could the music solve political problems?
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kathysart says:
My answer(s)? Both YES and NO
How timely to come across this question of yours. While walking my dog this morning I found myself singing an old song of Joan Baez's, called "Prison Trilogy". The song is about how prisoners are treated in the US. While singing the song I remembered my Dad's response to it and some of the political songs of my generation. He got angry with me as I protested the war in Vietnam, with song. I think is was and is a generational thing in some ways. He decided years ago about his political views and that was that, which was/is true for many in any generation. Despite all that I DO honestly think that protest can be spoken in a song that cannot be said in a discussion as poignantly or aggressively. Bringing back the song, "Prison Trilogy", because of the tune and Joan Baez's glorious voice, I sang that song when I was young without even considering the other side of that issue. People are in prison for a reason after all. Yet... I think mans inhumanity to man explodes in the scenario, especially now with the hopeful closing of Gitmo. I ramble- sorry. It is just that every issue is more complex than what is ever sung or voiced. The good thing about protest in song is that it causes us to 'think' about the differences eventually and hopefully try to change things for the better.
~Aloha, Kathy
Posted January 26, 2009
baker says:
music even let u to know the importence of demogracy in a living community
Posted January 25, 2009
Evelyn_Saenz says:
I believe that music can help to unite people to work toward changing problems within the society.
Posted February 05, 2009
The Sudanese Music goes into Nomadic Couplets Too!
The Sudanese Music Inspires the Nomadic Couplets!
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!
"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!
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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Sudanese Musical Instruments!

The Sudanese people use many different African musical instruments, Arabic musical instruments and local musical instruments when they play music. They began with their own local musical instruments they made from trees, plants, animals bones, horns and skins, metals, tins, stones and some other materials from the nature. Yes, they never let a stone unturned over. This habitual energy could explain their creativity, ability and enthusiasm. They use in addition to their traditional drums, Oud, Kamanjah (Kaman) (violin), Rababa, Riq, and horns.
As it is integrated deeply in the African melody, the Sudanese music is played per diem to perfume the public atmosphere by love, unity in diversity and peace. Sudanese use different kinds of drums as basic instruments along side the modern incorporated musical instruments like different kinds of guitars, cello, double bass, oboe, piano, organs, saxophones, saxhorns, flutes, harmonicas, violins and trumpets.
Sudanese musicians compose their Sudanese music using some of those musical instruments and supporting all this musical performance by handclapping, fingers clapping, foots tamping and throats sounds.
Mambo Becomes the Lightweight Dance in the Rhythm!
Is it the Influence of the Latinos in the Sudanese Life or the Influence of the Sudanese in Latinos?The Sudanese mambo has its magical movement when girls brace the dancing circle. The word mambo goes metaphoric too. The delighted hearts of the youth jump warm and the rhythm takes their feet to kiss Cuba Cubana lightly and fly from the ground like white birds.
Saiyd Khalifa has his own style in the Sudanese music. He alone could make the Mambo song takes that rhythm to flavour the hearts of the youth and flavour the Sudanese song with a new style of performance during the 60s and the 70s. He became more popular by his stylized songs. I wished to say (stylished) songs.
Cuba Cubana, the sand in Brazil became a name for a popular cafeteria in the central Khartoum, which has been the favourite meeting place for the Sudanese elites of the bourgeois, pensioners, journalists and university students.
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Political Impacts on the Sudanese Music Locally and Internationally!
The press gets to one Sudanese war child to get him fame from its own point of views. However, they prove that the Sudanese People's Liberation Army is not innocent.Nevertheless, the directions assisted the war child, wants to invest anything against Arabs and Islam to declare what they call racial cleansing in Sudan. There is of course no racial cleansing, but there is a political problem resulted from the British colonization to the country.
The British colonization authority left clear definition in their administration between the North and the South. It did this all together to encourage some bad feelings between the people in the local areas in the North and the South.
The South was not mature enough that time to run a referendum to determine whether to stay in the one united Sudan or not. There were of course very few educated Southerners.
This is why I mentioned in the Ezine Acts Blog that everything was planned in the colonized countries to raise future problems and make those countries damn the day of independence and be connected somehow to their colonized powers.
The colonized authority in Sudan has left some rightists parties, the Muslim Brothers was among them to reproduce political problems in the future, and make the country dependent on Britain.
The Sudanese music however, has all the ingredients of the Sudanese unity in diversity well rotted in many verses in this song. There was also a program for songs from around the million square miles country, as well as another program for songs from the East and the West of the world.
The Sudanese music is still connected to local themes, themes from the neighbouring countries and themes from the eastern and western world.
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Love in the Sudanese Music! What is Honourable and what is Dishonourable?
Intimacy and elegancy are the flavours of love in the Sudanese music. The lyrics of love carry always two combined values, the beauty of girls and virginity. The poets pray in their poetry for the beauty of girls and virginity. The girl is always a cherub in the poet's eyes. The poet cherishes the girl and gives her all his compassion.Some poets sing only for beauty and they never mention the girls they sing for them. In a conservative society that would be dishonourable. It does not necessary sometimes for the poet to marry the girl he sings for her. However, if a poet loves the girl and her parents refused his proposal, he takes it seriously and lives in pain to sing more poetry for her.
This kind of poetry comes very sad, full of passion and metaphorically paints a picture of the sacrifice the poet and the girl pay for the honour of their society. However, there are now two different generations to deal with the honour of their society. The new generation of course does not take it seriously, so they challenge traditions and barriers set by some families in this conservative society.
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Khalid-Osman wrote...
Kathy, they dropped in twice. Thanks. This is absolutely, nice of you.
kathysart wrote...
Humm I made a lengthy comment about music and politics (above) and do not see that it took.. bummer. Anyway.. wonderful lens with great insight.
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