As Plato Duly Warned: Music, Politics, and Social Change in Coastal East Africa

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 609-637

  Askew, Kelly M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Africa; Art; Music; Politics; Social change; Swahili

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344118016     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2003.0049     Document Type: Review

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