TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mohamed El-Mohammady Rizk
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Women in Taarab
T2  - The Performing Art in East Africa
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100817
N2  - The study aims primarily at exploring the images of Swahili women as depicted in taarab songs in Zanzibar and factors that shape these images at different epochs or points in time. A secondary concern of the book is to highlight the history of taarab songs in Zanzibar and to identify the relationship between this art of songs and the Egyptian song. The author adopted a holistic approach, concentrating on sung lyrics. The analysis is descriptive and utilizes perspectives of literary theories of orature as well as insights from gender, cultural, structural, and functional theories.
KW  - Taarab, Frauenbild, Oratur, Liedgut, Kulturelles Milieu
LA  - English
ER  -