SOUNDING THE INDIAN OCEAN, musical circulations in the Afro-Asiatic seascape

338pp., b/w & colour illus., maps, paperback, Oakland, 2023

Contributions include:

"Tracing the Indian Ocean at the Cape: Locating performance and writing practices of the Cape Muslim community" by Sylvia Bruinders and Valmont Layne

"Swahili Covers, Sufi Prayers, and Liberations Hymns: Women's mobilities in competitive Tufo dance associations in northern Mozambique" by Ellen E. Hebden

"Sonic Atmospheres in Mauritian Devotional Islam: Sensing transoceanic connections in a Creole society" by Patrick Eisenlohr.

"Sounding the Indian Ocean is a finely crafted voyage of discovery across a vast and relatively unexplored musical region, connecting distant geographies, temporalities, sacred practices, and everyday concerns. Drawing together an authoritative body of researchers, it pioneers a conversation about the role of sound and performance in rethinking transoceanic lateral networks and comparative cultural histories, securing the place of ethnomusicological scholarship in the reconstruction of one of the world’s oldest long-distance trading arenas." Angela Impey, author of Song Walking: Women, music, and environmental justice in an African borderland

Jim Sykes is Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Musical Gift: Sonic generosity in post-war Sri Lanka.

Julia Byl is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta and author of Antiphonal Histories: Resonant pasts in the Toba Batak musical present.