Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya’s Swahili Coast

＂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＂--

ANDREW J. EISENBERG (Abu Dhabi, UAE) is assistant professor of music and associate 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.