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The Freedom songs of the Somali Republic.

Author/creator Kershi, Abdullah
Format Electronic, Audio (Streaming), and Musical Sound Recording
Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2001.
Description1 online resource.
Supplemental Content https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?GLMU;71999
Subject(s)
Patriotic music--Somalia.
Songs, Somali--Somalia.
Other author/creatorGallal, Mussa.
Other author/creatorHussein, Hassan.
Other author/creatorSherif, Ahmed.
Other author/creatorWilliams, Chet.
Contents Dulkayaga (For our own land) / words by Ahmed, music by Abdullah Kershi -- Madafan (The most important) -- Lumuumba / words and music by Abdullah Kershi -- Wa mahad aleh (Thank God) -- Ogaada (Take care) / word and music by Abdullah Kershi -- Walalaha (Brothers) -- Raqaat / Abdullah Kershi -- Alow (Oh, my God!) / Abdullah Kershi -- Awee (Where?) / Ahmed Sherif -- Alankaa (Blue, blue flag) / words by Ismail Ahmed, music by Abdullah Kershi.
General notePreviously issued in 1962 as analog disc, Folkways Records: FD 5443.
General noteProgram notes (4 p. : ill.) inserted in original container.
General noteSmithsonian Folkways Recordings: FD 5443.
Performer Abdullah Kershi and Ahmed Sherif, composers and singers, accompanied with voices and lute, drums and tambourine.
Date/time/place of a event noteCollected by Chet Williams with Hassan Hussein (wireless) and by Mussa Gallal.

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