Andrew J. Eisenberg (b. 1977, New York) is Associate Professor of Music, NYU Abu Dhabi, and Global Network Associate Professor, NYU New York. An ethnographer of music and sonic culture, he has conducted extensive research in East Africa. His first book, Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya’s Swahili Coast (Wesleyan University Press, 2024), takes an ethnographic ear to appropriations of Arab and Indian styles in the popular musics of Mombasa during the twentieth century. The work explores how Swahili-speaking Muslims engaged with musical style as a medium for mediating the complexities of being ‘Swahili’ in late-colonial and postcolonial Kenya. His current book project is an ethnographic study of the recording industry in Nairobi. Publications related to this project include a chapter in Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology (UCL Press, 2022) and the co-authored article ‘Mobilising African Music: How Mobile Telecommunications and Technology Firms Are Transforming African Music Sectors’ (2020).