从西蒂到吉杜黛：桑给巴尔“塔拉布音乐”社会史研究

Abstract:Taarab is a music genre shaped by multi-cultural communication and social changes on the coastal region of East Africa. It was originally regarded as court music in the Sultanate of Zanzibar，and later evoloved into popular music on the East African coast. During this process，two female musicians from different generations，Siti Binti Saad，known as “The Mother of Taarab” and Kidude Binti Baraka，known as “The Queen of Taarab”，played a vital role in the development of Taarab. With the specific social contexts concomitant with their musical endeavors，Taarab accomplished its localization in Zanzibar and manifested its legacy and innovation in terms of form and content. Arguably，Siti endowed Taarab music with connotation of survival and resistance，later on this basis，Kidude cooperated with Tanzanian government as well as a female orchestra to inherit and innovate traditional Taarab，which contributed to the development of Taarab and maintained the subjectivity of female musicians in a Muslim society. We argue that the study of Siti and Kidude especially their individual features，is of great value to the socio-historical study of Taarab music in Zanzibar.

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