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Title Texts, voices and tapes: mediating poetry on the Swahili Muslim Coast in the 21st century
Full text https://hdl.handle.net/1887/133502
Date 2020
Author(s) Raia, A.
Abstract In this paper, I seek to investigate the manifold relationships between traditional and contemporary, oral and written Swahili poetry'in the <em>utendi</em> and <em>mashairi</em> forms'and its recitation in terms of the following considerations: how have advances in technology changed the production, transmission and reception of Swahili Islamic poetry? To what extent do writing and orality coexist in a recited text? What is the nature of performer identity formation within a 'discourse network' of artists'the composer (<em>mtungaji</em>), reader (<em>msomaji</em>), and singer (<em>mwimbaji</em>)'who, in Goffman's words, play 'participation roles' and appropriate poetry belonging to other living poets or to their own (sometimes anonymous) ancestors? In an attempt to answer these questions, I provide examples of performers and their performative craft. - ASC ' Publicaties niet-programma gebonden
Subject(s) Africa; Swahili; poetry
Language en
Type of publication Article / Letter to editor; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; Text
Format application/pdf
Source Matatu
Rights https://hdl.handle.net/1887/license:3
Identifier doi:10.1163/18757421-05101002; lucris-id:334273993
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
Added to C-A: 2023-03-20;12:13:38