Sounds of other shores : the musical poetics of identity on Kenya's Swahili coast

Name: Sounds of other shores : the musical poetics of identity on Kenya's Swahili coast
Author: Eisenberg, Andrew J., 1977- author.

Title	Sounds of other shores : the musical poetics of identity on Kenya's Swahili coast
Author	Eisenberg, Andrew J., 1977- author.
Publication Date:	2024
Publication Place	Middletown, Connecticut - Wesleyan University Press
Subject	Taarab (Music) -- Kenya -- Indian Coast -- History, Swahili-speaking peoples -- Kenya -- Indian Coast -- Music -- History and criticism, Popular music -- Kenya -- Indian Coast -- History and criticism
Type	Book
Language	ara,eng,swa
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	246
Physical Dimensions	24 cm
Library:	Wesleyan University Library
Library Asset ID	LC : 2023049027, ISBN : 9780819501059, ISBN : 0819501050, ISBN : 9780819501066, ISBN : 0819501069, OCLC : (OCoLC)1389555803, ISBN : 9780819501073
Record ID	alma9910578385608696
Library Location	See online access
Date	2024
Notes	Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-235) and index., Chiefly in English with some Romanized Arabic transliterations and phonetic and regular transcriptions of Swahili, both with parallel English translations.
Sample Text	• Preface: hints of elsewhere • Introduction: sound, sense, and subjectivity in Mombasa • A feeling for the boundaries: early recorded taarab • The lullaby of taarab: radio and reflexivity in the 1950s • The mouths of professors and clowns: Indian taarab • "Mombasa, mother of the world": Hadrami ṭarab • The musical philosopher: Zein l'Abdin's Arab taarab • Sea change: the twenty-first century • Reorienting appropriation: Swahili hip hop • Epilogue: for a humanistic musical anthropology of the Indian Ocean.
Seri	Music/culture, Music/culture.

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Sounds of other shores : the musical poetics of identity on Kenya's Swahili coast

Author Eisenberg, Andrew J., 1977- author.

Publication Date 2024

Publication Place Middletown, Connecticut - Wesleyan University Press

Subject Taarab (Music) -- Kenya -- Indian Coast -- History, Swahili-speaking peoples -- Kenya -- Indian Coast -- Music -- History and criticism, Popular music -- Kenya -- Indian Coast -- History and criticism

Type Book

Language ara,eng,swa

Digital No

Manuscript No

Pages Count 246

Physical Dimensions 24 cm

Library Wesleyan University Library

Library Asset ID LC : 2023049027, ISBN : 9780819501059, ISBN : 0819501050, ISBN : 9780819501066, ISBN : 0819501069, OCLC : (OCoLC)1389555803, ISBN : 9780819501073

Record ID alma9910578385608696

Library Location See online access

Date 2024

Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-235) and index., Chiefly in English with some Romanized Arabic transliterations and phonetic and regular transcriptions of Swahili, both with parallel English translations.

Sample Text • Preface: hints of elsewhere • Introduction: sound, sense, and subjectivity in Mombasa • A feeling for the boundaries: early recorded taarab • The lullaby of taarab: radio and reflexivity in the 1950s • The mouths of professors and clowns: Indian taarab • "Mombasa, mother of the world": Hadrami ṭarab • The musical philosopher: Zein l'Abdin's Arab taarab • Sea change: the twenty-first century • Reorienting appropriation: Swahili hip hop • Epilogue: for a humanistic musical anthropology of the Indian Ocean.

Seri Music/culture, Music/culture.