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"""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"

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"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."

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