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Eisenberg, Andrew J

 
9780819501066: Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast
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ISBN 10 : 0819501069 ISBN 13 : 9780819501066
Editeur : Wesleyan University Press, 2024

Synopsis

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, rich in audible influences from across the Indian Ocean. But the variants of the genre that emerged in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa during the twentieth century feature particularly dramatic, even flamboyant, appropriations of Indian and Arab sonic gestures and styles. Combining oral history, interpretive ethnography, and musical analysis, Sounds of Other Shores explores how Swahili-speaking Muslims in twentieth-century Mombasa derived pleasure and meaning from acts of transoceanic musical appropriation, arguing that these acts served as ways of reflecting on and mediating the complexities and contradictions associated with being "Swahili" in colonial and postcolonial Kenya. The result is a musical anthropology of Kenyan Swahili subjectivity that reframes longstanding questions about Swahili identity while contributing to broader discussions about identity and citizenship in Africa and the Indian Ocean world.

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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Wesleyan University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0819501069
ISBN 13 
9780819501066
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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Personne responsable
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9780819501059: Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast

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ISBN 10 :  0819501050 ISBN 13 :  9780819501059
Editeur : Wesleyan University Press, 2024
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