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Umm Kulthum: Artistic Agency and the Shaping of an Arab Legend, 1967-2007. Laura Lohman. 2010. Middle Town, CT: Wesleyan University Press. 229 pp.
Get PDFSounding the Depths: Tradition and the Voices of History. 2011. Victor Grauer. Selfpublished via CreateSpace. Illustrations at http://soundingthedepths.blogspot.com/. 294pp.
Get PDFEthnomusicology in East Africa. Perspectives from Uganda and Beyond. Selected papers from the 1st International Symposium on Ethnomusicology, Makerere University, Kampala, 2009. S. Nannyonga-Tamusuza and T. Solomon (eds.). 2012. Kampala: Fountain Publishers. 255pp.
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Cultural Globalization and Music. African Artists in Transnational Networks. Nadia Kiwan and Ulrike Hanna Meinhof. 2011. Palgrave Macmillan. 272 pp.
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Travel on a song-the roots of Zanzibar taarab
Get PDFZanzibar, in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Tanzania, consists of the neighbouring islands Unguja and Pemba which are home to a music style called taarab — a distinct musical form that blends Arabic and African as well as Indian, Latin, Indonesian and European influences. This style of music can be found with variations all along the Swahili Coast in Tanzania and Kenya, with the degree of influence from different musical cultures varying from place to place. Egyptian Arabic influence is most audible in Zanzibar taarab, while Mombasa (Kenya) exhibits a more pronounced Indian influence and Lamu (Kenya), has remained closer to its Yemeni origins
Kusamira: singing rituals of wellness in southern Uganda
Get PDFStudies of spirit mediumship and ritual healing have drawn on ethnographic research across the humanities and social sciences (e.g. Tantala 1989; Roseman 1991; Janzen 1992; Friedson 1996; Schoenbrun 1998; Feierman 1999; Thram 1999, 2002; Kodesh 2010). Renee Tantala refers to these as studies of "classical religion" in East Africa, while Steven Feierman, Neil Kodesh, and David Schoenbrun write on "public healing," and John Janzen and Steven Friedson prefer the proto-Bantu cognate "ngoma These terms offer alternatives to negatively-tinged formations like "cults of affliction" or "drums of affliction," even though they recognize a common intellectual ancestor in the work of the late Victor Turner (1967, 1968). Drawing on this rich literature, this article examines a type of ritual in southern Uganda called kusamira
