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  • The Swahili Art of Indian Taarab: A Poetics of Vocality and Ethnicity on the Kenyan Coast

    Author(s):
    Andrew Eisenberg (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Subject(s):
    Africa, Area studies, Anthropology, Motion pictures, Indic, Ethnomusicology, Sound art
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    Kenya, Swahili, taarab, vocality, Indian Ocean, African studies, Bollywood, Sound/sound art
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    ... The Swahili Art of Indian Taarab: A Poetics of Vocality and Ethnicity on the Kenyan Coast ...
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    ... . All translations are, likewise, my own. 1. Mwakio, “Taarab Maestro.” 2. Following the East African convention ...

  • Taarab

    Author(s):
    Andrew Eisenberg (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Subject(s):
    Africa, Area studies, Ethnomusicology
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Kenya, Swahili, Taarab, African Popular Music, African studies
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    ... evoked by true musical artistry, taarab has its origins in court music traditions of the Arab elite ...

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