Tracing The Mbira Sound Archive In Zimbabwe

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Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe

Author : Luis Gimenez Amoros
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429012578
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe written by Luis Gimenez Amoros and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe analyses the revitalisation and repatriation of historical recordings from the largest sound archive in Africa, the International Library of African Music (ILAM). It provides a postcolonial study on the African sound archive divided into three historical periods: the colonial period offers a critical analysis on how ILAM classifies its music through ethnic and linguistic groups; the postcolonial period reconsiders postcolonial nationhood, new/old mobility and cultural border crossing in present Africa; and the recent period of repatriation focuses on the author’s revitalisation of the sound archive. The main goal of this study is to reconsider the colonial demarcations of southern African mbira music provided by the International Library of African Music (ILAM). These mbira recordings reveal that the harmonic system used in different lamellophones (or mbiras) in southern Africa is musically related. The analysis of sound archives in Africa is an essential tool to envision the new ways in which African culture can be directed not only from postcolonial notions of nationhood or Afrocentric discourses but also for the necessity of bringing awareness of the circulation of musical cultures from and beyond colonial African borders.

Sound Fragments

Author : Noel Lobley
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819580783
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Sound Fragments written by Noel Lobley and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of IASPM Book Prize, given by IASPM, 2023 This book is an ethnographic study of sound archives and the processes of creative decolonization that form alternative modes of archiving and curating in the 21st century. It explores the histories and afterlives of sound collections and practices at the International Library of African Music. Sound Fragments follows what happens when a colonial sound archive is repurposed and reimagined by local artists in post-apartheid South Africa. The narrative speaks to larger issues in sound studies, curatorial practices, and the reciprocity and ethics of listening to and reclaiming culture. Sound Fragments interrogates how Xhosa arts activism contributes to an expanding notion of what a sound or cultural archive could be, and where it may resonate now and in future.

Mbira's Restless Dance

Author : Paul F. Berliner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022662630X
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Mbira's Restless Dance written by Paul F. Berliner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner and Cosmas Magaya’s Mbira’s Restless Dance documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart of this work lies the analysis of the improvisatory processes that propel mbira music’s magnificent creativity. Mbira’s Restless Dance is written to be played. This two-volume, spiral-bound set features musical transcriptions of thirty-nine compositions and variations, annotated with the master player’s advice on technique and performance, his notes and observations, and commentary by Berliner. Enhanced with extensive website audiovisuals, Mbira’s Restless Dance is in effect a series of masterclasses with Magaya, suitable for experienced mbira players and those learning the fundamentals. Together with Berliner's The Art of Mbira, in which he provides an indispensable historical and cultural guide to mbira in a changing world, Mbira's Restless Dance breaks new ground in the depth and specificity of its exploration of an African musical tradition, and in the entwining of the authors’ collaborative voices. It is a testament to the powerful relationship between music and social life—and the rewards of lifelong musical study, performance, and friendship.

Zimbabwean Mbira Music on an International Stage

Author : Chartwell Dutiro
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754657996
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Zimbabwean Mbira Music on an International Stage written by Chartwell Dutiro and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chartwell Dutiro, an mbira player since childhood and former member of Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited, arrived in Britain in 1994 and has lived there ever since. He works primarily with Zimbabwean and British musicians, and, while allying himself and his music to his Shona ancestors, his music represents both tradition and its transformation. This volume is a collaborative venture between musicians and academics, which builds an account of the mbira, the most important of Zimbabwe's traditional instruments. It celebrates Dutiro's musicianship, exploring his musical development and the collaborations he has been involved with, while at the same time discovering his personal, political and religious perspectives.

The Soul of Mbira

Author : Paul Berliner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226043791
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book The Soul of Mbira written by Paul Berliner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Berkeley: University of California Press, c1978, in series: Perspectives on southern Africa; 26.

Zimbabwean Mbira Music on an International Stage

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Zimbabwean Mbira Music on an International Stage written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Performing Zimbabwe

Author : Luis Gimenez Amoros
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781869143961
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Performing Zimbabwe written by Luis Gimenez Amoros and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Zimbabwe presents a transdisciplinary analysis of Zimbabwean music, drawing from different disciplines such as sociology, ethnomusicology, history, journalism, development studies, English, philology and drama. It offers a re-evaluation of Zimbabwean music by Zimbabwean scholars and, in so doing, reconsiders the work of international academics on the subject. It thus highlights the significance of local scholars in the study of Zimbabwean music. Given that this book features a wide range of perspectives, it provides a solid foundation for future studies on Zimbabwean music, either historically in the precolonial and colonial periods, or in the contemporary postcolonial period.

Lion Songs

Author : Banning Eyre
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375427
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Lion Songs written by Banning Eyre and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial struggle and cultural identity. Mapfumo was born in 1945 in what was then the British colony of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The trajectory of his career—from early performances of rock 'n' roll tunes to later creating a new genre based on traditional Zimbabwean music, including the sacred mbira, and African and Western pop—is a metaphor for Zimbabwe's evolution from colony to independent nation. Lion Songs is an authoritative biography of Mapfumo that narrates the life and career of this creative, complex, and iconic figure. Banning Eyre ties the arc of Mapfumo's career to the history of Zimbabwe. The genre Mapfumo created in the 1970s called chimurenga, or "struggle" music, challenged the Rhodesian government—which banned his music and jailed him—and became important to Zimbabwe achieving independence in 1980. In the 1980s and 1990s Mapfumo's international profile grew along with his opposition to Robert Mugabe's dictatorship. Mugabe had been a hero of the revolution, but Mapfumo’s criticism of his regime led authorities and loyalists to turn on the singer with threats and intimidation. Beginning in 2000, Mapfumo and key band and family members left Zimbabwe. Many of them, including Mapfumo, now reside in Eugene, Oregon. A labor of love, Lion Songs is the product of a twenty-five-year friendship and professional relationship between Eyre and Mapfumo that demonstrates Mapfumo's musical and political importance to his nation, its freedom struggle, and its culture.

The Soul of Mbira

Author : Paul Berliner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Soul of Mbira written by Paul Berliner and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

IASA Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book IASA Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Musical Bows of Southern Africa

Author : Sazi Dlamini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150134675X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Musical Bows of Southern Africa written by Sazi Dlamini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical Bows of Southern Africa brings together current scholarly research that documents a rich regional diversity as well as cultural relationships in bow music knowledge and contemporary practices. The book is framed as a critical appraisal of traditional ethnomusicological studies of the region – complementing pioneering studies and charting contexts for a contemporary engagement with bow music as an exchangeable cultural practice. Each contribution is written by an expert in the field and collectively demonstrates the multidisciplinary potential of bow music, highlighting the several fields of knowledge that intersect with bow music including ethno-organology, applied ethnomusicology, composition, music literacy, social development, cultural economics, history, orality, performance and language.

Bibliographic Guide to Music

Author : New York Public Library. Music Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Music written by New York Public Library. Music Division and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Silence of Great Zimbabwe

Author : Joost Fontein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315417200
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Silence of Great Zimbabwe written by Joost Fontein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the politics of landscape and heritage by focusing on the example of Great Zimbabwe National Monument in southern Zimbabwe. The controversy that surrounded the site in the early part of the 20th century, between colonial antiquarians and professional archaeologists, is well reported in the published literature. Based on long term ethnographic field work around Great Zimbabwe, as well as archival research in NMMZ, in the National Archives of Zimbabwe, and several months of research at the World Heritage Centre in Paris, this new book represents an important step beyond that controversy over origins, to focus on the site's position in local contests between, and among individuals within, the Nemanwa, Charumbira and Mugabe clans over land, power and authority. To justify their claims, chiefs, spirit mediums and elders of each clan make appeals to different, but related, constructions of the past. Emphasising the disappearance of the 'Voice' that used to speak there, these narratives also describe the destruction, alienation and desecration of Great Zimbabwe that occurred, and continues, through the international and national, archaeological and heritage processes and practices by which Great Zimbabwe has become a national and world heritage site today.

Gateways to Understanding Music

Author : Timothy Rice
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135170883X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Gateways to Understanding Music written by Timothy Rice and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gateways to Understanding Music explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical music, popular music, jazz, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music making to the newest, the chronological narrative considers music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective. Each of sixty modular "gateways" covers a particular genre, style, or period of music. Every gateway opens with a guided listening example that unlocks a world of music through careful study of its structural elements. Based on their listening experience, students are asked to consider how the piece came to be composed or performed, how the piece or performance responded to the social and cultural issues at the time and place of its creation, and what that music means today. Students learn to listen to, explain, understand, and ultimately value all the music they may encounter in their world. FEATURES Global scope—Presents all music as worthy of study, including classical, world, popular, and jazz. Historical narrative—Begins with small-scale forager societies up to the present, with a shifting focus from global to European to American influences. Modular framework—60 gateways in 14 chapters allow flexibility to organize chronologically or by the seven recurring themes: aesthetics, emotion, social life, links to culture, politics, economics, and technology. Listening-guided learning—Leads to understanding the emotion, meaning, significance, and history of music. Introduction of musical concepts—Defined as needed and compiled into a Glossary for reference. Consistent structure—With the same step-by-step format, students learn through repeated practice how to listen and how to think about music. In addition to streamed audio examples, the companion website hosts essential instructors’ resources.

Ethnic and Vernacular Music, 1898-1960

Author : Paul Vernon
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ethnic and Vernacular Music, 1898-1960 written by Paul Vernon and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1995-12-11 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed information on almost all ethnic and vernacular recordings from many countries on 78rpm is provided in this seminal work. The current state of discographical research in this wide and varied field is such that a research tool of this nature is badly needed. Jesse Walter Fewkes and Mary Hemenway recorded Native American music as early as 1890; Bela Bartok recorded rural music in the Balkans; Erich von Hornbostel, the grand old man of ethnomusicology in Europe, recorded in Southeast Asia. More than just a discography, this work demonstrates that cultures around the world and over time have more similarities than differences. A necessity for scholars, students, archivists, and individual record collectors and dealers. The goals of this volume are many and varied: to promote thought and discussion toward a concise definition of recorded ethnic music; to assist specialists working on individual discographical projects; to introduce users to the interconnectedness of cultures through regional music; to gather heretofore disparate pieces of information under one cover in a way that for the first time allows specialists to accurately identify all manner of recordings in many languages. The four sections of the volume work together for easy usage through cross referencing. The philosophy behind the volume was expressed by Rodney Gallop when he remarked that music, for him, was often the key to the understanding of other cultures.

The African Imagination in Music

Author : Kofi Agawu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190263202
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The African Imagination in Music written by Kofi Agawu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Imagination in Music offers a fresh introduction to the vast and complex world of Sub-Saharan African music. Through close readings of traditional music and references to popular music, Agawu considers topics including the place of music in society, musical instruments, language and music, and appropriations of African music.

Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique

Author : Elizabeth MacGonagle
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580462570
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique written by Elizabeth MacGonagle and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crosses conventional theoretical, temporal, and geographical boundaries to show how the Ndau of southeast Africa actively shaped their own identity over a four-hundred-year period.