Ngoma bibliography

Published primary sources

Allen, James de V., 1981, 'Ngoma: Music and Dance', in: The Customs of Swahili People, London: University of California Press, pp.233-246. Amoretti, Scarcia A. (ed. by), 2001, Islam in East Africa: New Sources, Roma: Herder. Askew, Kelly M., 2002, Performing the Nation. Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania, Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press. Askew, Kelly M., 2000, 'Following in the Tracks of Beni: The Diffusion of the Tanga Taarab Tradition', in: Mashindano! Competitive Music Performance in East Africa, Gunderson, Frank & Barz, Gregory F. (ed. by), Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, pp. 21-38. Barber, Karin, 1997, Readings in African Popular Culture, Bloomington: James Currey. Barz, Gregory F., 2000, 'Politics of Remembering: Performing History(-ies) in Youth Kwaya Competitions in Sukumaland', Tanzania, in: Mashindano! Competitive Music Performance in East Africa, Gunderson, Frank & Barz, Gregory F. (ed. by), Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, pp. 407-420. Barz, Gregory F. and Cooley, Timothy J., 1997, Shadows in the Field. New perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. Bauman, Richard, 1984, Verbal Art as Performance, Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. Bauman, Richard, 1986, Story Performance and Event. Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative, Cambridge; London; New York; New Rochelle; Melbourne; Sydney: Cambridge University Press. Blacking, John and Kealiinohomoku, Joann W. (eds.), 1979, The Performing Arts. Music and Dance, The Hague; Paris; New York: Mouton Publishers. Caplan, Lionel, Parkin David and Fisher, Humphrey, 1996, The Politics of Cultural Performance, Providence, RI; Oxford: Berghahn Books. Caplan, Pat, 1997, African Voices African Lives: Personal Narratives from a Swahili Village[Mafia Island], Routledge, London and New York. Caplan, Pat, 1993, 'Learning Gender. Fieldwork in a Tanzanian Coastal Village', 1965-85., in: Gendered Fields. Women, Men and Ethnography, Bell, Diane, Caplan, Pat and Karim, Wazir J. (ed. by)London; New York: Routledge, pp. 168-181. Crozon, Ariel et Le Cour Grandmaison, Colette (sous la direction de), 1998, Zanzibar Aujourd’hui, Paris: Karthala; Nairobi: Ifra. Drews, Annette, 2000, 'Gender & Ngoma. The Power of Drums in Eastern Zambia', in: The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma. The Political Aspects of Healing in Southern Africa, Reis, Ria, Spierenburg, Marja and Van Dijk Rijk (eds.), Oxford: James Currey, pp. 39-60. Fair, Laura, 2000, 'Identity, Difference, and Dance: Female Initiation in Zanzibar', 1890-1930, in: Mashindano! Competitive Music Performance in East Africa, Gunderson, Frank & Barz, Gregory F. (ed. by), Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, pp. 143-174. Fair, Laura, 2001, Pastimes and Politics. Culture, Community, and Identity in Post-Abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945, Athens: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey. Feld, Steven, 1994, 'Communication, Music, and Speech about Music', in: Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues, Keil, C. and Feld, S, Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, pp. 77-95. Finnegan, Ruth, 1970, Oral Literature in Africa, Oxford: Clarendin Press. Finnegan, Ruth, 1992, Oral Tradition and the Verbal Arts. A guide to Research Practices, London; New York: Routledge,. Franken, Marjorie Ann., 1986, Anyone can Dance: a Survey and Analysis of Swahili Ngoma, Past and Present, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California Press, Riverside. Geiger, Susan, 1997, TANU Women: Gender and Culture in the Making of Tanganyikan Nationalism, 1955-1965, Portsmouth, N. H.: Heinemann. Gilman, Lisa, 2000, 'Putting Colonialism into Perspective: Cultural History and the Case of Malipenga Ngoma in Malawi', in: Mashindano! Competitive Music Performance in East Africa, Gunderson, Frank & Barz, Gregory F. (ed. by), Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, pp. 319-346. Graebner, Werner, 2000, 'Ngoma ya Ukae: Competition Social Structure in Tanzanian Dance Music Songs', in: Mashindano! Competitive Music Performance in East Africa, Gunderson, Frank & Barz, Gregory F. (ed. by), Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, pp. 295-318. Graebner, Werner (a cura di), 1992, Sokomoko. Popular Culture in East Africa, Amsterdam: Rodopi. Gunderson, Frank & Barz, Gregory F. (ed. by), 2000, Mashindano! Competitive Music Performance in East Africa, Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers. Kabira, Wanjiku M., Masinjila, Masheti & Milton, Obote (ed.), 1997, Contesting Social Death: Essays on Gender and Culture, Nairobi: KOLA Publications. Keil, Charles and Feld, Steven, 1994, Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues, Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press. Lange, Siri, 2000, 'Muungano and TOT: Rivals on the Urban Cultural Scene', in: Mashindano! Competitive Music Performance in East Africa, Gunderson, Frank & Barz, Gregory F. (ed. by), Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, pp. 67-86. Lange, Siri, 1995, From Nation Building to Popular Culture: the Modernization of Performance in Tanzania, Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Insitute, 1995. Larsen, Kjersti, 2001, 'Spirit Possession as Oral History: Negotiating Islam and Social Status', in: Islam in East Africa: New Sources, (ed. by) Amoretti, Scarcia, A., Roma: Herder, pp. 275-295. Larsen, Kjersti, 2000, 'The Other Side of “Nature”: Expanding Tourism, Changing Landscapes, and Problems of Privacy in Urban Zanzibar', in: Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa, Broch-Due, Vigdis and Schroeder, Richard A. (ed. by), Uppsala: Nordiska Africainstitutet, pp. 198-219. Larsen, Kjersti, 1998, Spirit Possession as Historical Narrative. 'The Production of Identity and Locality in Zanzibar Town', in: Locality and Belonging, Lovell, Nadia (ed. by), London, Routledge, pp. 125-146. Mazrui, Alamin M. & Shariff, Ibrahim Noor, 1994, The Swahili: Idiom and Identity of an African People, New Jersey: Africa World Press. Mwai, Wangari K., 1997, 'Power of the Song for the Swahili Women', in: Contesting Social Death: Essays on Gender and Culture, ed. Kabira, W. M., Masinjila, M. and Obote, M., Nairobi: KOLA Publications, pp. 84-102. Ntarangwi, Mwenda, 2003, Gender, Identity and Performance: Understanding Swahili Cultural Realities through Songs, Trenton, NJ; Asmara: Africa World Press. Parkin, David, 1996, 'The Power of the Bizarre', in: The Politics of Cultural Peformance, Caplan, Lionel, Parkin David and Fisher, Humphrey, Providence, RI; Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. xv-xi. Humphrey, Providence (ed. by), 1994, Continuity and Autonomy in Swahili Communities. Inland Influences and Strategies of Self-Determination, London: Afro-Pub. Ranger, Terence O., 1975, Dance and Society in Eastern Africa. 1890-1970. The Beni Ngoma, London; Ibadan; Nairobi; Lusaka: Heinemann. Reis, Ria, Spierenburg, Marja and Van Dijk, Rijk (eds.), 2000, The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma. The Political Aspects of Healing in Southern Africa, Oxford: James Currey. Rosaldo, Michelle Z. & Lamphere, Louise (ed. by), 1974, Woman, Culture and Society, Stanford University Press, Stanford. Strobel, Margaret, 1995, 'Women in Religion and in Secular Ideology', in: African Women South of the Sahara, Hay, Margaret Jean & Stichter, Sharon (ed.), New York: Longman, pp. 87-101. Stichter, Sharon, 1979, Muslim Women in Mombasa. 1890-1975, New Haven; London: Yale University Press. Topan, Farouk M., 1994, 'Song, Dance and the Continuity of Swahili Identity', in: Continuity and Autonomy in Swahili Communities. Inland Influences and Strategies of Self-Determination, (ed. by) Parkin, D., London: Afro-Pub, pp.139-151.

Published essays

Arnold, Nathalie, 2002, 'Placing the Shameless: Approaching Poetry and the Politics of Pemban-ness in Zanzibar', 1995-2000, in: Research in African Literatures, 33, 3, pp. 140-166. Askew, Kelly M.,1990, 'Female Circles and Male Lines: Gender Dynamics along the Swahili Coast', in: Africa Today, 46, 3/4, 1999, pp. 67-101. Bauman, Richard and Briggs, Charles L., 1990, 'Poetics and Performance as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life', in: Annual Review of Anthropology, 19, pp. 59-88. Brunotti, Irene, 2005, 'La performance di ngoma a Zanzibar. Gestualità e simboli nella costruzione di relazioni sociali', in: Quaderni Asiatici, QQAA, XXII, n. 71. Brunotti, Irene, 2006, Maonyesho ya Ngoma kama Mukhtadha wa Kujenga na Kueleza Uhusiano wa Jinsia katika Jamii ya Kizanzibari, paper presented at the Kongamano la Kumi na Tisa la Kiswahili, 26-28 May 2006, University of Bayreuth. Brunotti, Irene, 2005, Ngoma za Kisasa na Biashara ya Kitalii: Maendeleo na Mabadiliko Yanayohusu Nafsi ya Kike na Nafsi ya Makabila Mjini Zanzibar, paper presented at the Kongamano la Kimataifa kuhusu Kiswahili na Utandawazi — Kongamano la Jubilee TUKI miaka 75, 4-7 July 2005, University of Dar es Salaam. Published in the Congress’ Reports. Brunotti, Irene, 2005, Ngoma ni Uhuni? Ngoma za Kisasa Mjini Zanzibar, paper presented at the Kongamano la Kumi na Nane la Kiswahili, 6-8 May 2005, University of Bayreuth. In: Swahili Forum 12. Campbell, Carol A. and Eastman, Carol M., 1984, 'Ngoma: Swahili Adult Song Performance in Context', in: Ethnomusicology, September 1984, pp. 467-493. Caplan, Pat, 1989, 'Perceptions of Gender Stratification', in: Africa, 59 (2), pp. 196-208. Drewal, Margaret T., 1991, 'The State of Research on Performance in Africa', in: African Studies Review, Volume 34, Number 3 (December 1991), pp. 1-64. Eastman, Carol M., 1987, 'Women, Slaves and Foreigners: African Cultural Influences and Group Processes in The Formation of Northern Swahili Coastal Society', in: African Economic History, 16, 1, pp. 1-20. Eastman, Carol M., 1984, 'An Ethnography of Swahili Expressive Culture', in: Research in African Literatures, 15 839, pp. 313-340. Eastman, Carol M., 1984, 'Waungwana na Wanawake: Ethnicity and Gender Roles in Islamic Coastal Kenya', in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 5 (2), pp. 97-112. Eastman, Carol M., 1971, 'Who are the Waswahili?', in: Africa, XLI, 3, pp. 228-236. Fair, Laura, 2002, '‘It’s Just no Fun Anymore’: Women’s Experiences of Taarab Before and After the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution', in: International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 35, 1, pp. 61-81. Fair, Laura, 1998, 'Dressing up: Clothing, Class and Gender in Post-Abolition Zanzibar', in: Journal of African History, vol. 39, 1, pp. 63-94. Fargion, Janet T., 1993, 'The Role of Women in Taarab in Zanzibar: an Historical Examination of a process of “Africanisation”', in: The World of Music, 35(2), pp.109-125. Larsen, Kjersti, 2001, Change, Continuity and Contestation. The Politics of Modern Identities in Zanzibar, Fifth Anglo-French Swahili Workshop/Table Ronde, London, September 13/15th 2001, pp.1-29. Musau, P. M., 2001, The Song as a Reflection of the Changing Socio-Political Reality of the Swahili, Fifth Anglo-French Swahili Workshop/Table Ronde, London, September 13/15th 2001, pp.1-26. Strobel, Margaret, 1975, 'Women’s Wedding Celebrations in Mombasa, Kenya', in: African Studies Review, Vol. XVIII, No. 3 (December 1975), pp. 35-45. Topan, Farouk M., 1995, 'Vugo: A Virginity Celebration Ceremony Among the Swahili of Mombasa', in: African Languages and Cultures, 8, 1 (1995), pp. 87-107.

Dissertations

Brunotti Irene, 2005, Chake/Wete in Ng’ambo. Ngoma e Costruzioni Identitarie a Zanzibar in Età Contemporanea, tesi di Dottorato, Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’. Campbell, Carol A., 1983, Nyimbo za Kiswahili: a Socio-ethnomusicological Study of a Swahili Poetic Form, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Music, University of Washington. D’Amato, Valentina, 1998, Alaa Kumbe! La Voce delle Donne Attraverso i Kanga, Tesi di laurea, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli. Fair, Laura, 1994, Pastimes and Politics: A Social History of Zanzibar’s Ng’ambo Community, 1890-1950, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Minnesota. King’ei, Kitula G., 1992, Language, Culture and Communication: the Role of Swahili Taarab Songs in Kenya, 1963-1990, Ph.D. Dissertation, Howard University. Mwai, Wangari, 1998, Song as Protest Tool for the Women in the Swahili Speaking Community: a Case Study of Two Interior Settlements in Kisumu Municipality, Gender Issues Report Series n°6, April 1998, OSSREA (Organization for Social Science research in Eastern and Southern Africa), pp. 1-41. Irene Brunotti