Publications

Eisenberg, Andrew J. 2024. Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

De Beukelaer, Christiaan, and Andrew J Eisenberg. 2018. “Mobilising African Music: How Mobile Telecommunications and Technology Firms Are Transforming African Music Sectors.” Journal of African Cultural Studies. Published online 26 Nov. 2018. DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2018.1546569.

Eisenberg, Andrew J. 2017. “The Swahili Art of Indian Taarab: A Poetics of Vocality and Ethnicity on the Kenyan Coast.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 37 (2): 336–54.

Eisenberg, Andrew J. 2017. “Taarab.” In Shades of Benga: The Story of Popular Music in Kenya, edited by Ketebul Music, 287–307. Nairobi, Kenya: Ketebul Music.

Eisenberg, Andrew J., Alex Perullo, Ryan Skinner, and Gavin Steingo. 2017. “Popular Music,” In Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies, ed. Thomas Spear. New York: Oxford University Press.

Eisenberg, Andrew J. 2015. “Traditional Music,” In Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies, ed. Thomas Spear. New York: Oxford University Press.

Perullo, Alex, and Andrew J. Eisenberg. 2014. “Musical Property Rights Regimes in Tanzania and Kenya After Trips.” In Sage Handbook of Intellectual Property, edited by Matthew David, and Deborah Halbert, 148–63. Sage.

Eisenberg, Andrew J. 2013. “Islam, Sound, and Space: Acoustemology and Muslim Citizenship on the Kenyan Coast.” In Music, Sound, and Space: Transformations of Public and Private Experience, edited by Georgina Born, 186–202. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Eisenberg, Andrew J. "Hip-Hop and Cultural Citizenship on Kenya's ‘Swahili Coast’." Africa 82, no. 4 (2012): 556-578.

Eisenberg, Andrew J. 2010. “Toward an Acoustemology of Muslim Citizenship in Kenya.” Anthropology News Dec. 51 (9): 6.

Eisenberg, Andrew J. "A Feeling for the Boundaries." Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape (2023): 54.

Eisenberg, Andrew J. 2015. “Space.” In Keywords in Sound, edited by David Novak, and Matt Sakakeeny, 193–207. Durham: Duke University Press.

Eisenberg, Andrew J. and Bill Odidi. 2018. “The Mombasa Years of Andrew ‘Madebe’ Burchell” [two-part blog post for Afropop Worldwide]. Oct. 23/24.

Eisenberg, Andrew J. 2018. “The Kenyan Song You Need to Know,” Explore Parts Unknown [website for CNN’s “Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown”]. Sept. 26.

Eisenberg, Andrew J. 2016. “Zein l’Abdin Ahmed is the Coastal Lute Player Who Popularised Taarab” [obituary], Daily Nation (Kenya), November 4.

Eisenberg, Andrew J. 2016. “A Tribute to Kenyan Taarab Legend Zein l’Abdin” [blog post], Music in Africa. July 26.

Music in Africa. 2016. “Digital Technology and the Music Recording Industry in Kenya” [blog post], Music in Africa. July 11.