Legacy of Tanzanian Musicians Muhidin Gurumo and Hassan Bitchuka - Rhumba Kiserebuka!

Muhidin Maalim Gurumo and Hassan Rehani Bitchuka are two of Tanzania’s most well-known singers in the popular music genre known as muziki wa dansi (literally, 'music for dancing'), a variation of the Cuban-based rhumba idiom that has been enormously impactful throughout central, eastern, and western Africa in the contemporary era. This interview-based dual biography investigates the lives and careers of these two men from an ethnomusicological and historical perspective. Gurumo had a career spanning fifty years before his death in 2014. Bitchuka has been singing professionally for forty-five years. The two singers, affectionately called mapacha (“the twins”) by their colleagues, worked together as partners for thirty years from 1973-2003. With a foreword by Hassan Rehani Bitchuka.

356 p.; 24 cm.
Cloth

Language: English
ISBN: 1498564399
ISBN13: 9781498564397
UPC: 9781498564397