Sounds of Other Shores - The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast

"A cultural history of Swahili taarab, a form of sung poetry that emerged as East Africa's first mass-mediated popular music in the 1930s, using performance analyses to explore how transoceanic appropriation situated twentieth-century Mombasan taarab as a space of creative subject formation"--

About the author

ANDREW J. EISENBERG (Abu Dhabi, UAE) is associate professor of music and program head for music at New York University Abu Dhabi. He served as a postdoctoral research associate on the European Research Council-funded "Music, Digitisation, Mediation" project and currently co-directs NYU Abu Dhabi's Music and Sound Cultures (MaSC) lab.

Summary

A study of transoceanic musical appropriation and Swahili ethnic subjectivity on the Kenyan coastSounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear to the history of transoceanic stylistic appropriation in the Swahili taarab music of the Kenyan coast.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew J Eisenberg, Andrew J. Eisenberg
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.04.2024
• EAN: 9780819501059
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-0105-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Illustrations: 21 b&w photos, 5 tables, 1 map
• Series: Music / Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries