Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Eisenberg, Andrew J., 1977-

Publication

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2024]

Details

Description

xx, 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Music/culture

Uniform Title

Music/culture.

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
• Taarab > Kenya > Indien, Côte de l'océan > Histoire
• Swahili (Peuple d'Afrique) > Kenya > Indien, Côte de l'océan > Musique > Histoire et critique
• Musique populaire > Kenya > Indien, Côte de l'océan > Histoire et critique

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9780819501059
• 0819501050
• 9780819501066
• 0819501069
• 9780819501073 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023049027

OCLC

YBP 2023049027

Author

Eisenberg, Andrew J., 1977- author.

Title

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

Publisher

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2024]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Music/culture

Music/culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Eisenberg, Andrew J., 1977- Sound of other shores Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2024 9780819501073 (DLC) 2023049028