Andrew J Eisenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 92515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew J Eisenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Eisenberg |
| SIGNATURE | EISENBERG A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern Illinois University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6976-7398 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Listening for Africa
Book Review| October 01 2021 Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins. David F. Garcia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. xii, 360 pp., photographs, figures, notes, bibliography, index. Andrew J. Eisenberg Andrew J. Eisenberg New York University Abu Dhabi Search for other works by this author on: This Sit…
Mobilising African music
This paper explores the role of mobile telecommunication and technology firms (MTTs) in the distribution of recorded music in Ghana and Kenya. These countries both have vibrant music markets with weak formal distribution networks. Limited enforcement of copyright regimes and weak market regulation created new entrepreneurial business models. While 'big tech' dominates this space elsewhere, in African contexts the main players are mobile service p…
Collapse of a Eurasian Hybrid
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Swahili Art of Indian Taarab
Employing approaches from ethnomusicology and vocal anthropology, Eisenberg undertakes an interpretive-ethnographic analysis of Indian taarab, a genre of Swahili song on the Kenyan coast that features Swahili words set to Hindi film song melodies performed in a distinctly Indian style. Eisenberg argues that Swahili musicians and audiences derive pleasure and meaning from Indian taarab's paradoxical presentation of Indian sounds as Swahili express…
Musical Property Rights Regimes in Tanzania and Kenya after TRIPS
Despite the passage of relatively uniform copyright legislation throughout East Africa and the formation of regional organizations meant to further standardize these laws, the protection of musical works in East African creative industries has varied significantly within and between Tanzania and Kenya. While enforcement remains weak throughout East Africa, each country has also taken a different path in the implementation of copyright policies me…
Kenya
Kenya: L'obokano, lyre des Gusii/The Obokano, Lyre of the Gusii. 2014. Archives internationales de musique populaire AIMP 107. Disques VDE-Gallo VDE CD-1414. Recorded and annotated by Stéphanie Weisser. Gatefold package and 40-page booklet with notes in French and English. English translation by Isabel Ollivier. Colour photographs, illustration, map. CD, 11 tracks (59:46). Recorded in the field in 2012. - Volume 46
Islam, sound and space
Hip-Hop and Cultural Citizenship on Kenya's 'Swahili Coast
The Muslim-dominated 'Swahili coast' has always served as a conceptual as well as physical periphery for post-colonial Kenya. This article takes Kenyan youth music under the influence of global hip-hop as an ethnographic entry into the dynamics of identity and citizenship in this region. Kenyan youth music borrows from global hip-hop culture the idea that an artist must 'represent the real'. The ways in which these regional artists construct thei…
Toward an Acoustemology of Muslim Citizenship in Kenya
Keywords: commentary, acoustemology, Islam, Kenya, sound, space, Swahili coast
Singing for Life
Rumba Rules
Review of: Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire by Bob W. White
Kingship in Early Medieval China
The institution of the Retired Emperor forms the innovative angle from which this study analyzes Classical Chinese political history (4th to 7th centuries A.D.) With the help of the ensuing insights the volume develops into a portal through which to gain understanding of broader patterns of political and social action relevant to the Classical Chinese monarchy. In this truly interdisciplinary approach Weberian historical sociological concepts are…
Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio. Louise Meintjes
The International Conference on Northern Dynasties History
Shalom Everybody Everywhere
Weberian patrimonialism and imperial Chinese history
Warfare and Political Stability in Medieval North Asian Regimes
Kingship, Power and the Hsüan-Wu Men Incident of the T'Ang
This article will discuss the politics of succession in the Northern Dynasties and the early T'ang. The discussion will focus on the institution of the retired emperorship (t'ai-shang huang-ti, 7&W). In a broad sense, modes of political succession are component parts of the general political culture of a polity (be this polity a tribe, empire, or nation-state). The development of specific modes of political succession are, of course, a function o…
Retired Emperorship in Medieval China
Hip-Hop and Cultural Citizenship on Kenya's 'Swahili Coast
The Muslim-dominated 'Swahili coast' has always served as a conceptual as well as physical periphery for post-colonial Kenya. This article takes Kenyan youth music under the influence of global hip-hop as an ethnographic entry into the dynamics of identity and citizenship in this region. Kenyan youth music borrows from global hip-hop culture the idea that an artist must 'represent the real'. The ways in which these regional artists construct thei…
Mobilising African music
This paper explores the role of mobile telecommunication and technology firms (MTTs) in the distribution of recorded music in Ghana and Kenya. These countries both have vibrant music markets with weak formal distribution networks. Limited enforcement of copyright regimes and weak market regulation created new entrepreneurial business models. While 'big tech' dominates this space elsewhere, in African contexts the main players are mobile service p…
The Swahili Art of Indian Taarab
Employing approaches from ethnomusicology and vocal anthropology, Eisenberg undertakes an interpretive-ethnographic analysis of Indian taarab, a genre of Swahili song on the Kenyan coast that features Swahili words set to Hindi film song melodies performed in a distinctly Indian style. Eisenberg argues that Swahili musicians and audiences derive pleasure and meaning from Indian taarab's paradoxical presentation of Indian sounds as Swahili express…
Toward an Acoustemology of Muslim Citizenship in Kenya
Keywords: commentary, acoustemology, Islam, Kenya, sound, space, Swahili coast
Retired Emperorship in Medieval China
Kingship, Power and the Hsüan-Wu Men Incident of the T'Ang
This article will discuss the politics of succession in the Northern Dynasties and the early T'ang. The discussion will focus on the institution of the retired emperorship (t'ai-shang huang-ti, 7&W). In a broad sense, modes of political succession are component parts of the general political culture of a polity (be this polity a tribe, empire, or nation-state). The development of specific modes of political succession are, of course, a function o…
Warfare and Political Stability in Medieval North Asian Regimes
Weberian patrimonialism and imperial Chinese history
The International Conference on Northern Dynasties History
Shalom Everybody Everywhere
Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio. Louise Meintjes
Kingship in Early Medieval China
The institution of the Retired Emperor forms the innovative angle from which this study analyzes Classical Chinese political history (4th to 7th centuries A.D.) With the help of the ensuing insights the volume develops into a portal through which to gain understanding of broader patterns of political and social action relevant to the Classical Chinese monarchy. In this truly interdisciplinary approach Weberian historical sociological concepts are…
Rumba Rules
Review of: Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire by Bob W. White
Toward an Acoustemology of Muslim Citizenship in Kenya
Keywords: commentary, acoustemology, Islam, Kenya, sound, space, Swahili coast
Singing for Life
Hip-Hop and Cultural Citizenship on Kenya's 'Swahili Coast
The Muslim-dominated 'Swahili coast' has always served as a conceptual as well as physical periphery for post-colonial Kenya. This article takes Kenyan youth music under the influence of global hip-hop as an ethnographic entry into the dynamics of identity and citizenship in this region. Kenyan youth music borrows from global hip-hop culture the idea that an artist must 'represent the real'. The ways in which these regional artists construct thei…
Islam, sound and space
Kenya
Kenya: L'obokano, lyre des Gusii/The Obokano, Lyre of the Gusii. 2014. Archives internationales de musique populaire AIMP 107. Disques VDE-Gallo VDE CD-1414. Recorded and annotated by Stéphanie Weisser. Gatefold package and 40-page booklet with notes in French and English. English translation by Isabel Ollivier. Colour photographs, illustration, map. CD, 11 tracks (59:46). Recorded in the field in 2012. - Volume 46
Musical Property Rights Regimes in Tanzania and Kenya after TRIPS
Despite the passage of relatively uniform copyright legislation throughout East Africa and the formation of regional organizations meant to further standardize these laws, the protection of musical works in East African creative industries has varied significantly within and between Tanzania and Kenya. While enforcement remains weak throughout East Africa, each country has also taken a different path in the implementation of copyright policies me…
The Swahili Art of Indian Taarab
Employing approaches from ethnomusicology and vocal anthropology, Eisenberg undertakes an interpretive-ethnographic analysis of Indian taarab, a genre of Swahili song on the Kenyan coast that features Swahili words set to Hindi film song melodies performed in a distinctly Indian style. Eisenberg argues that Swahili musicians and audiences derive pleasure and meaning from Indian taarab's paradoxical presentation of Indian sounds as Swahili express…
Collapse of a Eurasian Hybrid
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Mobilising African music
This paper explores the role of mobile telecommunication and technology firms (MTTs) in the distribution of recorded music in Ghana and Kenya. These countries both have vibrant music markets with weak formal distribution networks. Limited enforcement of copyright regimes and weak market regulation created new entrepreneurial business models. While 'big tech' dominates this space elsewhere, in African contexts the main players are mobile service p…
Listening for Africa
Book Review| October 01 2021 Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins. David F. Garcia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. xii, 360 pp., photographs, figures, notes, bibliography, index. Andrew J. Eisenberg Andrew J. Eisenberg New York University Abu Dhabi Search for other works by this author on: This Sit…
History (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · History (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 works)