EVERY GENERATION HAS ITS STANDARDS

When you listen to elderly music fans talking about music, you will hear them complaining about the standard of music, in terms of compositions and arrangement. And they will take you back to the times of Patrick Balisdya and the Afro 70 Band, David Musa and the Safari Trippers, and so on. But here is an article written during Balisdya's time, let us see what they thought of the music them.
The article was put together by Franklin Mziray a respected journalist of the time. PAMPHIL JOSEPH MARIJANI of Muhimbili had this to say, 'Music is passion. A musician must have a passion to be able to entertain his audience. Not everybody who plays a musical instrument is an entertainer. The status of music in our country is now very bad, in a few years there will no longer be talents as it was before. Let us take the example of Iddi Amin's invasion of our country, musicians then took a big part in encouraging everybody in the war efforts., but now in the last ten years, no song has been composed to show Tanzanians the importance of patriotism. This is proof that the older generation musicians had greater talent than the present musicians.

Our bands lack patrons who will permanently take care of them, they are left to wander about till they die'.

Another contributor was NDIBALEMA ALPHONSE a student at the University of Dar Es Salaam, who said the whole country understood the importance of music in bringing harmony among the people, but music must also be used to encourage people in development, something that had disappeared in the music'

What can you say about these observations?