Radio Tanzania Music Archives

It wasn’t just “popular” music that was recorded. Arabic taarab musicians, traditional Ngoma drummers, and other ethnographic recordings are stored there as well. In many cases, these are the only copies that exist. Like this one, titled Ngoma 539 – the first track is called “Ngoma wa Wazaramo,” meaning “Music of the Zaramu Tribe”. The song titles are listed, along with their duration, and three paragraphs of “Historia”.

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Contained in galleries: Radio Tanzania Project: Tanzania, 2012

It wasn’t just “popular” music that was recorded. Arabic taarab musicians, traditional Ngoma drummers, and other ethnographic recordings are stored there as well. In many cases, these are the only copies that exist. Like this one, titled Ngoma 539 – the first track is called “Ngoma wa Wazaramo,” meaning “Music of the Zaramu Tribe”. The song titles are listed, along with their duration, and three paragraphs of “Historia”.