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Sounds of Other Shores
- The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast
Engelsk
Bogcover for Sounds of Other Shores af Andrew J Eisenberg, 9780819501066
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9780819501066
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0819501069
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Udg. Dato:
2 apr 2024
Størrelse i cm:
15,2 x 22,9 x 1,9
Oplagsdato:
2 apr 2024
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Sounds of Other Shores

- The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast
Engelsk
Paperback 2024
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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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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9780819501066
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0819501069
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
2 apr 2024
Størrelse i cm:
15,2 x 22,9 x 1,9
Oplagsdato:
2 apr 2024
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