Highlife and taarab ‘revisited’
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2016-09-15
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In this presentation I will talk about my roughly 10-years of Highlife research – Highlife in a trilocal and transnational perspective (that led to my habilitation thesis at the University of Bayreuth) - and then draw a comparative line to (the history) of popular music in East Africa, the so called Taarab music of the Swahili Coast, that can also be revisited as a modern, cross-boundary cultural formation of popular music.
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Highlife research, transnational perspective, popular music, Africa