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 ...
More than any other artist except perhaps Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, Thomas Mapfumo has become Zimbabwe's musical ambassador to the world. That's ironic, because while the people of his country celebrate ...
Today's Google Doodle is celebrating Zimbabwe's national instrument, the mbira, for Zimbabwe's Culture Week. The Google Doodle follows a Zimbabwean girl's experience of discovering and learning to ...
Field recordings by Paul Berliner. Originally released as The soul of mbira : traditions of the Shona people of Rhodesia (H-72054). Compact disc. Original liner notes by Paul Berliner (20 p. : ports.) ...
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In California, she’s built one of the world’s largest archives of Zimbabwean Shona music
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 ...
Introduction ca. 23 min.; each song has separate introduction, song without commentary, song with commentary, pronunciation guide, and musical notation segments, ca. 7-10 minutes total if for each ...
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