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    • Author/Creator:Kershi, Abdullah.
    • Title:The Freedom songs of the Somali Republic [electronic resource].
    • Published/Created:Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2001.
    • Physical Description:1 online resource.
    • Links:Online music
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    • Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
    • Notes:Previously issued in 1962 as analog disc, Folkways Records: FD 5443.
      Program notes (4 p. : ill.) inserted in original container.
      Smithsonian Folkways Recordings: FD 5443.
      Collected by Chet Williams with Hassan Hussein (wireless) and by Mussa Gallal.
      Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2009. (Smithsonian global sound for libraries). Available via World Wide Web.
    • Access and use:Access restricted by licensing agreement.
    • Variant and related titles:Smithsonian global sound for libraries.
    • Other formats:Original publisher catalog number:
      Original
    • Format:Music
    • Performers:Abdullah Kershi and Ahmed Sherif, composers and singers, accompanied with voices and lute, drums and tambourine.
    • 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.
    • Subjects:Patriotic music--Somalia.
      Songs, Somali--Somalia.
    • Also listed under:Gallal, Mussa.
      Hussein, Hassan.
      Sherif, Ahmed.
      Williams, Chet.