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Resonant voices and spatial politics
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Eisenberg, Andrew J. |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Description | This chapter examines the role of human-produced sound in defining and demarcating public space as the space of a Muslim community, focusing on the case of Mombasa Old Town on the Kenyan coast. Using ethnographic data, I describe how Mombasa Old Town's quotidian Islamic soundscape – a polyphony of Quranic recitations emanating from boom boxes and computer speakers, and distorted voices crackling from rooftop loudspeakers of mosques – structures an “acousteme” (Feld 1996), a way of knowing place through sound, that is key to fostering a sense of the neighbourhood as a discrete space of a Muslim community within the heterogeneous city of Mombasa and largely Christian Kenyan nation-state. Book Name: Worship Sound Spaces |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9780429279782-9&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 157 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| Starting Page | 140 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429279782-9 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2019-11-18 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Worship Sound Spaces Cultural Studies Mombasa Old Old Town Space of a Muslim Community Structures |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
