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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 27, 2021.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that in hakamat, a genre of the traditional music of Sudan, women exert their influence to resolve conflicts by singing songs of praise or ridicule?

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Sources in Arabic about music of Sudan, part two

Another interesting study seems to be a dissertation on the history of the music of the military in Sudan by Abdul Halim Sheikh Al-Din Adam at the Sudan University of Science and Technology (SUSTECH), with the only Department of Music and Drama in Sudan. The abstract in English translation reads:

This research aims to study military music, which is the music that was produced in the period from 1821 AD with the entry of the Turkish colonization of Sudan in the first period and the Anglo-Egyptian colonization after the Kitchener Pasha campaign. And to learn about the origins and history of military music in Sudan and its most important pioneers, in an effort to find out the extent of the influence and development it has had in the Sudanese lyrical musical culture, and to classify and characterize the characteristics of its components, types and sources from which they came, as the research adopted models of military music from Marsh and Majalat as the true product of this culture. The research consists of four chapters: - The first chapter is the general framework of the research and it contains a presentation of an introduction, the research plan, research methodology and procedures. The second semester includes the theoretical framework for research and previous studies. - The third chapter includes the practical framework for the research, which is represented in presenting and analyzing the research sample samples and discussing the results of presentation and analysis. The fourth chapter includes the research findings and recommendations. The research reached important results represented in achieving the objectives of the research: to know the emergence of military music and the extent of the development it brought about in the Sudanese singing musical culture, and then to identify the components of the military musical culture and its components that emerged from it. - Reliance on some of the folk songs of the tribes from which the military enclaves were formed are the origin of the Sudanese military marsh. Military music is the first educational institution to study music in Sudan. - The entry of new instruments into the Sudanese musical musical culture, represented by wooden and copper wind instruments. - The joining of military musicians to the Sudanese Radio formed a current that enriched urban music with new sound colors and instrumental potentials that greatly contributed to increasing the horizons of musical expression, and formed trends of musical thinking that adopted wood and copper wind instruments, and pikelos in particular, as their focus in the map of the Sudanese song. Source: https://library.dctabudhabi.ae/eds/detail?db=edsbas&an=edsbas.836D83B8 Munfarid1 (talk) 06:38, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sources in Arabic about music of Sudan, part three

The author Ahmad Sikainga, one of my two main sources for this article, beginns his "A short History of Sudanese Popular Music" with these words:

"In the literature on the rise of modern Sudan, there is a dominance of political analysis and a comparative absence of social and cultural history. Topics such as popular culture, music, dance and clothing have received scant attention from historians. These subjects have mostly been left to anthropologist and others whose research has been in rural areas. Yet such activities are central to the emergence of a common popular culture in the urban centres of the country. This is a culture that springs from the lives of marginal groups, of manual workers, peasants, slaves and women, and from the merging of a great diversity of indigenous and external influences."

Ahmad Sikainga, A short History of Sudanese Popular Music, 2011 Munfarid1 (talk) 06:43, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

More sources for further editing

On the popular rock band The Scorpions: https://afro7.net/the-scorpios-mashena-samha-afro7/

On Munsophone record label https://radiodiffusion.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/mohamed-merghani/ Munfarid1 (talk) 10:16, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Who wants to write a new article about revolutionary songs from Sudan?

As indicated in only a few sentences in the article on Music of Sudan, political protest songs accompanying the times of revolutions since at least the 1960s have been an important and very popular genre of contemporary music in Sudan. The sources cited in the section on revolutionary songs already present quite a lot of information for an extra article, and there are most probably more RS on this in Arabic or other languages. Further, such songs are continuously created and shared by Sudanese musicians both at home and in the diaspora. - Maybe this could be a welcome challenge to competent fellow editors like @FuzzyMagma or others? Munfarid1 (talk) 20:41, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]