Sounds of other shores : the musical poetics of identity on Kenya's Swahili coast / Andrew J. Eisenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eisenberg, Andrew J., 1977- author.

Contributor:

Project Muse

Series:

Music/culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taarab (Music)--Kenya--Indian Coast--History.

Taarab (Music).

Swahili-speaking peoples--Kenya--Indian Coast--Music--History and criticism.

Swahili-speaking peoples.

Popular music--Kenya--Indian Coast--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 246 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2024]

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface: Hints of Elsewhere

Acknowledgments

Companion Website

A Note on Language

Introduction: Sound, Sense, and Subjectivity in Mombasa

One: A Feeling for the Boundaries: Early Recorded Taarab

Two: The Lullaby of Taarab: Radio and Reflexivity in the 1950s

Three: The Mouths of Professors and Clowns: Indian Taarab

Four: "Mombasa, Mother of the World": Hadrami Tarab

Five: The Musical Philosopher: Zein l'Abdin's Arab Taarab

Six: Sea Change: The Twenty-First Century

Seven: Reorienting Appropriation: Swahili Hip Hop

Epilogue: For a Humanistic Musical Anthropology of the Indian Ocean

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 13, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Eisenberg, Andrew J., 1977- Sounds of other shores

ISBN:

9780819501073

0819501077

Publisher Number:

40032212775

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.