Kelly M. Askew

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

United States of America

Title

Interim Director, African Studies Center; Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Affiliation

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Email

kaskew@umich.edu

Mailing Address

Mail address:
101 West Hall
1085 S. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1107 USA

Phone/Fax Number(s)

phone: (734) 764-2337
fax (734) 763-6077

Countries of Specialization

Tanzania

Research Interests

Ph.D. Harvard University, 1997
B.A. Yale University, 1988

Research interests:

Music and performance of East Africa, especially Tanzania ; media ;
cultural policy ; nationalism ; African socialism and postsocialism ;
1964 Zanzibar revolution

Publications

Selected Publications:

Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania
(University of Chicago Press, 2002)

The Anthropology of Media: A Reader, co-edited with Richard R. Wilk
(Blackwell Publishers, 2002)

African Postsocialisms, co-edited with M. Anne Pitcher (Edinburgh
University Press, 2006)

Keywords

music ; performance ; nationalism ; African socialism ; media.