Andrew J Eisenberg

Gebundenes Buch

Sounds of Other Shores

The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast

Beschreibung

"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"--

Autor

ANDREW J. EISENBERG (Abu Dhabi, UAE) is associate professor of music and program head for music at New York University Abu Dhabi. He served as a postdoctoral research associate on the European Research Council-funded "Music, Digitisation, Mediation" project and currently co-directs NYU Abu Dhabi's Music and Sound Cultures (MaSC) lab.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780819501059
• ISBN-10: 0819501050
• Artikelnr.: 68444509