Listeners who come to traditional African music from the American variety will find it a refreshingly organic experience. The sonorities reflect a variety of instruments both ancient and modern, ...
The Center for World Music presents Mbira Bhururu: Songs of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. Experience the rich cultural and musical heritage of Zimbabwe through the traditional sounds of the mbira ...
From the first pluck of the mbira’s metal keys, Shumbakdzi commands more than melody as she summons memory, resistance and renewal. Her sound is ancestral yet urgent — a rhythmic conversation between ...
Two visiting artists will bring Zimbabwean music for the mbira — a traditional instrument that has been popular in that part of Africa for centuries — to the Pitzer Center on the UC Davis campus at 2 ...
Popularly known by his totem Hungwe, which refers to the fish eagle, Lovemore Salari is an unsung mbira maestro — being a ...
Preface -- Introduction -- Part A. Components of the Mbira System -- Collecting ideas in an improvisation-based tradition : A longitudinal approach -- The mbira repertory : Central concepts -- ...
Preface. Understanding Zimbabwe : the Shona and the Ndebele in Zimbabwe and beyond / Barbara Mahamba and Luis Gimenez Amoros -- Introduction. The study of Zimbabwean music by Zimbabwean scholars / ...
A conversation between scholar Umi Vaughan and author Mahealani Uchiyama in celebration of the release of her book The Mbira, An African Musical Tradition. The book is an overview steeped in the ...
When SKyCTC Academic Adviser John Thomerson first picked up a mbira, a Southern African “thumb piano,” as a pandemic side project, he wanted to add to the long list of foreign instruments in his ...
“Can you explain how you fall in love?” asks Erica Azim. “In a certain way it’s an impossible question.” Yet it’s a conundrum the Berkeley native has contemplated for half a century, every time she’s ...
Harare — THE first Zimbabwean to play mbira in church and feature in a movie, Chikakarara Simon Mashoko died two months ago in his home area Masvingo. Details of his death are still sketch because ...
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