found: Work cat.: Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club. Music of Zanzibar, p1988:insert (taarab; vocal-instrumental popular music of the Swahili, generally Muslim peoples of the East African coast between Somalia and Mozambique)
found: Garland encyc. of world music:p. 427 (taarab; lyric poetry sung in Swahili, most characteristically at weddings, by up to ten singers and instrumental ensembles including both Arabic and Western instruments; closely related to the Egyptian firqah orchestra of the 1930's and 1940's; strongly influenced by Indian film music and East African ngoma rhythms)
found: New Grove:v. 18, p. 568 (taarab; urban vocal genre with instrumental acc. which may include ud, harmonium and drums)
notfound: Web. 3
