Taarab music in Zanzibar in the twentieth century : a story of "old is gold" and flying spirits/
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| Author / Creator: | Topp Fargion, Janet, 1963- |
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| Imprint: | Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014] |
| Description: | xi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SOAS musicology series SOAS musicology series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10149497 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Introductions
- Approaches and people
- Meanings and boundaries
- Part II. Entangled Histories and Parallel Strands
- Orchestral taarab: old is gold
- Kidumbak
- Women's taarab
- Part III. Flying Spirits
- What Women Really Really Want: Women as drivers of change
- Part IV. Conclusions
- The professionalisation of the taarab music complex
- Women at the centre of a music complex
- Bibliography
- Index
