Mariam Hamdani tunes her ganoun gently, the sunlight catching her turquoise ring as she takes time to calibrate each string with the help of an iPhone app. Her henna-highlighted hair peeks out from ...
Of all the exotic bands to land in Chicago during the ongoing World Music Festival, one stands apart from the rest. But it’s not just geographical distance that distinguished the appearance of the ...
Teenager Neema Florence Surrie started to play the violin at the age of nine. Since then, she has found a love for traditional taarab music and plays in an all-female taarab music group in Zanzibar.
Zanzibar Vice President Seif Sharif Hamad has visited to comfort the prestigious WOMEX award winner, Fatuma binti Baraka, aka Bi Kidude, who has been sick for several weeks sparking rumours that the ...
"First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing"--Title page verso. AFA copy Purchased from the Warren M. Robbins Library Endowment. "The musical genre of taarab is played for entertainment at weddings ...
Teenager Neema Florence Surrie started to play the violin at the age of nine. Since then, she has found a love for traditional taarab music and plays in an all-female taarab music group in Zanzibar.