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Sounds of Other Shores

- The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast
Af: Andrew J Eisenberg Engelsk Paperback

Sounds of Other Shores

- The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast
Af: Andrew J Eisenberg Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 240
ISBN-13: 9780819501066
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0819501069
Kategori: Etniske studier
Udg. Dato: 2 apr 2024
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 229mm
Højde: 152mm
Forlag: Wesleyan University Press
Oplagsdato: 2 apr 2024
Forfatter(e): Andrew J Eisenberg
Forfatter(e) Andrew J Eisenberg

Kategori Etniske studier

ISBN-13 9780819501066

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 240

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 229mm

Højde 152mm

Udg. Dato 2 apr 2024

Oplagsdato 2 apr 2024

Forlag Wesleyan University Press