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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Eisenberg, Andrew J. (1977-....)
Titre(s) : Sounds of other shores [Texte imprimé] : the musical poetics of identity on Kenya's Swahili coast / Andrew J. Eisenberg
Publication : Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, copyright 2024
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XX-246 pages) : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Collection : Music/culture
Lien à la collection : Music culture
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-235) and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Taarab -- Kenya -- Indien, Côte de l'océan (Afrique) -- Critique et interprétation
Musique swahili -- Kenya -- Indien, Côte de l'océan (Afrique) -- Critique et interprétation
Musique populaire -- Kenya -- Indien, Côte de l'océan (Afrique) -- Critique et interprétation
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780819501059. - ISBN 0819501050. - ISBN 9780819501066. - ISBN 0819501069. -
ISBN 9780819501073 (erroné) (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47456415r
Notice n° :
FRBNF47456415
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Preface : Hints of elsewhere ; Introduction : Sound, sense, and subjectivity in
Mombasa ; A feeling for the boundaries : Early recorded taarab ; The lullaby of
taarab : Radio and reflexivity in the 1950s ; The mouths of professors and clowns
: Indian taarab ; "Mombasa, mother of the world" : Hadrami ṭarab ; The musical
philosopher : Zein l'Abdin's Arab taarab ; Sea change : The twenty-first century
; Reorienting appropriation : Swahili hip hop ; Epilogue : For a humanistic musical
anthropology of the Indian Ocean.
