Tracing the Mbira sound archive in Zimbabwe / Luis Gimenez Amoros.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gimenez Amoros, Luis (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Subjects:
Mbira music > Zimbabwe > History and criticism.
Shona (African people) > Music > History and criticism.
Mbira music.
Shona (African people) > Music.
Zimbabwe.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:viii, 131 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Reconsidering the Colonial Archive: 1. The mobilisation of Shona musical identity during colonial times ; 2. Reconsidering the colonial creation of Shona musical identity and Shona Mbiras in the sound archives ; 3. An attempt to link colonial and postcolonial narratives in the sound archive: Andrew Tracey's "Shona chord finder" and the Mbira country beyond borders ; 4. Lyrics and reinterpretations of Shona-Mbira recordings
  • Part II. Reconsidering the Sound Archive and Postcolonial Nationhood: 5. The centralisation of great Zimbabwe and the multiple versions of chaminuka in the sound archive ; 6. Chimurenga music: Mbira musical culture and the subaltern versions of postcolonial nationhood
  • Part III. The Digital Return and Revitalisation Project of the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe: 7. Digital return and repvitalisation of the sound archive in Zimbabwe ; 8. Revitalising the repertoire through Zimbabwean musicians ; 9. The digital return in the place of the recordings ; 10. Curricula transformation in the African academy through the sound archive.