Ngoma Memories: How Ritual Music and Dance Shaped the Northern Kenya Coast

African Studies Review

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 21-47

  Gearhart, Rebecca ^a  

^a ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33846485276     PISSN: 00020206     EISSN: 15552462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/arw.2006.0016     Document Type: Article

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