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Zanzibar's one and only music academy on the brink of closure

Thousands of visitors to the historic city of Stone Town, Zanzibar, have followed the sound of music to the Dhow Countries Music Academy (DCMA), a music school that promotes and preserves the islands’ ...
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Taarab music in Zanzibar in the twentieth century : a story of "old is gold" and flying spirits / Janet Topp Fargion

"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 ...
Hartford Courant

Zanzibar unrest reflects anger along Swahili coast

STONE TOWN, Zanzibar (Reuters) – The “spice island” of Zanzibar would seem to have little in common with Somalia, torn by Islamist rebellion, and with Kenya, where a storm is brewing over demands for ...
The Conversation

Of culture, donors and the collapse of Zanzibar’s top music festival

Matthew McNamara Morin has received past funding for his Eastern Africa research from Florida State University and the Colom Foundation. Zanzibar’s Sauti za Busara (a Swahili term meaning “sounds of ...