Versatility of the Taarab lyric: local aspects and global influences
‘Taarab’ is a popular music entertainment in East Africa whose origin is ‘contentiously’ given as Middle East. It is an art form imported to East Africa perhaps in the early years of the 1900s. Taraab has been ariedly looked at, but has generally been seen as a uniform body. This essay sets out to s...
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Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
2012
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