GENDER, IDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE: UNDERSTANDING SWAHILI CULTURAL REALITIES THROUGH SONGS Black & African American Romance Fiction ISBN-10 : 0062282719

ISBN-10 : 0062282719

with a preface by Paul Baxter

By the early 1990s Japan had replaced the U

Publisher : Agate Bolden (March 20

Paperback : 60 pages

GENDER, IDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE: UNDERSTANDING SWAHILI CULTURAL REALITIES THROUGH SONGS Black & African American Romance Fiction ISBN-10 : 0062282719This book analyzes the intersection between gender and identity within popular performance of the Swahili people of Mombasa. Juxtaposing cultural norms with everyday practices, Ntarangwi explores how gender and identity are practiced, constructed, mobilized, and contested through popular musical expressions known as taarab. By carefully examining the revelation and reconstitution of masculinities and femininities within these expressions, Ntarangwi