Andrew J. Eisenberg

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Andrew J. Eisenberg is Assistant Professor of Music and Associate Program Head for Music at NYU Abu Dhabi, and Global Network Assistant Professor at NYU New York. An ethnographer of music and sonic culture focusing on urban East Africa, he served as a postdoctoral research associate on the European Research Council-funded "Music, Digitisation, Mediation" project and currently co-directs NYU Abu Dhabi’s Music and Sound Cultures (MaSC) lab. His work appears in a range of journals and edited volumes, including the books Keywords in Sound and Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology. His co-authored article, "Mobilising African Music: How Mobile Telecommunications and Technology Firms are Transforming African Music Sectors" is currently the most read work in the Journal of African Cultural Studies.