MUSIC AND DANCE IN EAST AFRICA By Kahithe Kiiru & Maina wa Mutonya

This collection of articles cuts across the Eastern African region, with authors interrogating varying themes in different historical periods that speak not only to the practice of music and dance but also to the performance that characterise these practices.

The book dedicates itself to research in music and dance, while engaging with colonial and contemporary political and historical realities within the Eastern African region. Inevitably, themes that grapple with urbanisation and the emergence of urban spaces for the entertainment, as well as the imagination of culture by the colonialist form a key window into the research and understanding of music and dance.