2. A Feeling for the Boundaries: Sounding the Indian Ocean on the Swahili Coast

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgements xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Section One. Listeners
6. Section One. Listeners 1. “There is no modesty or shame in this city”: What Bengalis Heard in Colonial Burma, c. 1900 33
7. 2. A Feeling for the Boundaries: Sounding the Indian Ocean on the Swahili Coast 54
8. Section Two. Mobilities
9. 3. Swahili Covers, Sufi Prayers, and Liberation Hymns: Women’s Mobilities in Competitive Tufo Dance Associations in Northern Mozambique 77
10. 4. An Untouchable Kīrtan: Sonic Liberation on the Andaman Islands 99
11. 5. Baloch Musical Repertoires and Culture Production in the Post-Maritime Gulf Metropolis 120
12. Section Three. Mediascapes
13. 6. Sonic Atmospheres in Mauritian Devotional Islam: Sensing Transoceanic Connections in a Creole Society 145
14. 7. Arabian Passings in Indian Ocean History: Troubadours, Technology, and the Longue Durée, 1656–1963 158
15. Section Four. Communities
16. 8. Making Pilgrimage, Making Home: Sikh Sacred Soundings in Kenya 181
17. 9. Tracing the Indian Ocean at the Cape: Locating Performance and Writing Practices of the Cape Muslim Community 199
18. 10. Music and Citizenship: Using Siddi and Sheedi Musical Practices to Expand On Concepts of Belonging 216
19. Section Five. Connections
20. 11. Squinting at Greater India 233
21. 12. Transplanted Musics in a Plantation Society: Performing Arts on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, 1826–1955 251
22. 13. Káfriinha, Kaffringha, and the Bailasphere—Sri Lanka and Beyond 274
23. Conclusions
24. 14. Bandung 2.0: Audible Dakwah and the Performance of Indian Ocean Islam 297
25. Epilogue: Global Indian Ocean(s) and the Promise of a Decolonial World 311
26. Contributors 317
27. General Index 321