Taarab Music In Zanzibar In The Twentieth Century : A Story Of Old Is Gold and Flying Spirits.

Taarab Music In Zanzibar In The Twentieth Century : A Story Of Old Is Gold and Flying Spirits.

Topp Fargion, Janet.

(Soas Musicology Series)

Ashgate  ©2014



Taarab is a genre of festive music performed at weddings and other celebrations along the Swahili Coast of East Africa. This book traces the development of the music, and the role of women in the genre. With an introduction, bibliography and index. Figures. One table.

237 p.; 24 cm.
Cloth
Language: English
ISBN: 0754655547
ISBN13: 9780754655541
UPC: 9780754655541

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