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Taarab Music in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century - A Story of 'Old is Gold' and Flying Spirits (Paperback)
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Taarab Music in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century - A Story of 'Old is Gold' and Flying Spirits (Paperback)
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
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The musical genre of taarab is played for entertainment at weddings
and other festive occasions all along the Swahili Coast in East
Africa. Taarab contains all the features of a typical 'Indian
Ocean' music, combining influences from Egypt, the Arabian
Peninsula, India and the West with local musical practices. In
Taarab, Music in Zanzibar, Janet Topp Fargion traces the
development of the genre in Zanzibar, from the late nineteenth
century to the end of the twentieth. Of special interest is the
role of women. Although men play the main role in the composition
and performance of the genre, Topp Fargion argues that the
modernization of the genre owes a debt to the participation of
women - as audiences and primary consumers, but also as poets and
innovators of musical concepts. The book weaves together the
historical, social, economic, religious and political dynamics
involved in the development of the genre, and investigates how
these are played out in the performance of taarab music on
Zanzibar.
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