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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Middletown CT : Wesleyan University Press, 2024.ISBN:
  • 9780819501066
Subject(s): Summary: "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"--
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"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"--

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