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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew J. EisenbergPublisher: Wesleyan University Press Imprint: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 9780819501066ISBN 10: 0819501069 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 04 February 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"""Eisenberg provides potent music histories that lie at the heart of a genre, invigorating the debates about Waswahili belonging and citizenship beginning before European colonization and proceeding to Kenya's post-colonial eras.""--Jean Kidula, author of Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song ""A work of deep and sustained research, formidable both in its theoretical sophistication and historical depth, Sounds of Other Shores is a fabulously rich investigation of cosmopolitan acoustemology.""--Steven Feld, author of Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra ""This book provides a serious examination of Swahili hip-hop, and an important demonstration of how a study of music builds on and informs notions of identity. Eisenberg's insights are original and valuable.""--Janet Topp Fargion, author of Taarab Music in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century ""This insightful and rich study traces the genealogy of taarab, not simply as a transoceanic musical genre, but as a meaningful and integral dimension of Swahili identity and space, of uswahili itself.""--Farouk Topan, Emeritus Professor, Aga Khan University" Author Information"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." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |