Andrew J. Eisenberg is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at NYU Abu Dhabi. Between 2011 and 2013, he served as Postdoctoral Research Associate in charge of the Kenya portion of the ERC Music and Digitisation Programme, while also holding a junior research fellowship at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. He earned a PhD in ethnomusicology from Columbia University in 2009, with a dissertation on vocal expression, emplacement and citizenship among marginalized Muslims of Kenya's 'Swahili coast'. He is currently working on a book based on his dissertation, entitled Sound and Citizenship: Voice, Place, and Belonging on Kenya's 'Swahili Coast'.
Andrew's research for the Music and Digitisation Project concerns the transformations of popular music recording and distribution in Nairobi in the wake of the liberalization of the Kenyan media and influx of digital media technologies. It contributes to music industry studies, cultural and creative industry studies, and scholarship on music copyright, by providing an empirically rich account of a dynamic recording industry in the Global South.
Andrew has previously taught at Northwestern University, Stony Brook University, and Bard College.
