I found this article on the web. It is an interview with Prof. Kelly Askew of the university of Michigan. Tanzanians may know her better as a singer with the Babloom Orchestra.

" Kelly Askew is a professor of Anthropology, and of African and Afroamerican Studies at the University of Michigan.  She lived in Tanga, Tanzania, studying taarab music from 1992-95, and published “Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania” in 2002 (University of Chicago Press).  Banning Eyre interviewed her in August, 2005, for the program East African Taarab.  Here’s the complete text of their conversation. "

Read the article at this link:

 

http://www.afropop.org/multi/interview/ID/81/Kelly+Askew-2005