Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface: Hints of Elsewhere
Acknowledgments
Companion Website
A Note on Language
Introduction: Sound, Sense, and Subjectivity in Mombasa
One: A Feeling for the Boundaries: Early Recorded Taarab
Two: The Lullaby of Taarab: Radio and Reflexivity in the 1950s
Three: The Mouths of Professors and Clowns: Indian Taarab
Four: "Mombasa, Mother of the World": Hadrami Tarab
Five: The Musical Philosopher: Zein l'Abdin's Arab Taarab
Six: Sea Change: The Twenty-First Century

Seven: Reorienting Appropriation: Swahili Hip Hop
Epilogue: For a Humanistic Musical Anthropology of the Indian Ocean
Notes
Bibliography
Index