... not only on the East African coast but all over Africa. A local music which demonstrates the use of these instruments is Taarab, music of Zanzibar culture originating from a mixture of Indian, Arabian, and African music. Taarab is an evening show in which a singer accompanied by a 40 piece ochestra, drums, horns, and strings plays. It is a theatrical performance in which women ... dressed in their best evening wear dance toward the singer and give them money in an expression of appreciation (General Information > Music and Art). Art is mostly indigenous with slight signs of influence of...

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