DAR ES SALAAM: THE National Arts Council (BASATA) has commended the Tanzania Taarab Music Association for its dedicated ...

ZANZIBAR: ZANZIBAR, The peaceful Island of Taarab, went a mile ahead with the Trace Awards & Summit, which celebrated the ...

Modern Taarab: A Bollywood Moment in Dar Night two ... Singeli Night: The Pulse of Tanzania's Youth Then came singeli night--a revelation. This breakneck 300-BPM genre is Tanzania's dominant ...

It is a brilliant move to recognise and celebrate an art form that is homebrewed out of youth unemployment, world-class ...

A celebration of music, memory and humanity in Zanzibar, the event brings together artists, scholars, and cultural practitioners to explore Taarab’s deep-rooted legacy. Zanzibar. The 36th Bienal de ...

Lissu is expected to be more confrontational towards the ruling CCM party. Tanzania's president says she is "confident" the country will "overcome" the highly infectious Marburg. Worthing's Russ ...

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Sounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear to the history of transoceanic stylistic appropriation in the Swahili taarab music of the Kenyan coast. Swahili taarab, a form of sung poetry that ...