Texts, Voices and Tapes
Mediating Poetry on the Swahili Muslim Coast in the 21st Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5844972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann Raia (0009-0001-9587-1196, Leiden University, corresponding author), Annachiara Raia (Leiden University African Studies Center Leiden The Netherlands Leiden) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 139-168 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Matatu (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0932-9714 • E-ISSN: 1875-7421 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18757421-05101002 |
| OpenAlex | W3036472497 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
In this paper, I seek to investigate the manifold relationships between traditional and contemporary, oral and written Swahili poetry-in the utendi and mashairi 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 ( mtungaji ), reader ( msomaji ), and singer ( mwimbaji )-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
Aesthetics · Art · Craft · Identity (music · Linguistics · Literacy · Literature · Oral poetry · Orality · Performative utterance · Poetry · Sociology · Swahili · Visual arts · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Discourse Networks, 1800/1900
Power and the Praise Poem
Orality and Literacy
The Social Life of Things
Akhi patia kalamu
Les conditions sociales de la circulation internationale des idées
An Historical Review of the Arabic Rendering of Swahili Together with Proposals for the Development of a Swahili Writing System in Arabic Script (Based on the Swahili of Mombasa)
Stringing Coral Beads
Enduring relevance
The Swahili Art of Indian Taarab
Philosophising in MombasaKnowledge, Islam and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast
What Is There In My Speaking”
Power and the praise poem
Traditional Swahili Poetry
Al-Inkishafi. The Soul's Awakening
Music, Musicians and Muslim Law
How oral is oral literature
Strung Pearls
The Oral History and Literature of the Wolof People of Waalo, Northern Senegal
Techniques of Inattention
Imbongi and griot
The poem as message
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |