Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast
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Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast
A study of transoceanic musical appropriation and Swahili ethnic subjectivity on the Kenyan coast
Sounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear to the history of transoceanic stylistic appropriation in the Swahili taarab music of the Kenyan coast. Swahili taarab, a form of sung poetry that emerged as East Africa's first mass-mediated popular music in the 1930s, is a famously cosmopolitan form,...
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.
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