{"id":471,"date":"2015-08-11T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T23:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=471"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:48:37","slug":"askew-1997","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=471","title":{"rendered":"Askew 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Askew, Kelly. 1997. &#8220;Performing the Nation: Swahili Musical Performance and the Production of Tanzanian National Culture&#8221;. Harvard University\u00a0thesis, Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>This work, subsequently published by the University of Chicago Press in 2002 as <em>Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania<\/em>, contains an appendix of 43 song texts and translations. Though called songs many are rhymed poems<\/p>\n<p>Some of these are presented here, in some cases with slightly altered translations. These modern compositions often use vocabulary in modern senses not captured in existing dictionaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Askew, Kelly. 1997. &#8220;Performing the Nation: Swahili Musical Performance and the Production of Tanzanian National Culture&#8221;. Harvard University\u00a0thesis, Cambridge, Massachusetts. This work, subsequently published by the University of Chicago Press in 2002 as Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania, contains an appendix of 43 song texts and translations. Though called songs &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=471\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Askew 1997<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-471","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}