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 / ...

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, ...

“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 ...

If you’re new to the Pacific Northwest, you would’ve probably been warned about the rain and the gloomy few months that come along with it. But when multi-instrumentalist and singer songwriter John ...

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 ...

Dumi, as he was affectionately known, freely and happily shared his skills and knowledge, becoming an ambassador of the nyunga-nyunga mbira and marimba music in America Once upon a time, not so long ...

SOUTH BEND — The Music Village presents “Concert & Conversation: A Cultural Music Pop-Up with Polyphony Marimba” at 7 p.m. Aug. 26 at 333 S. Michigan St. Peter and Karyna Swing formed Polyphony ...

Reggae, although imported from Jamaica, has been the cornerstone music of Zimbabwe since Bob Marley’s visit to this country in April, 1980. After 1980, several reggae bands from overseas came to give ...

A popular Zimbabwean music outfit, Mokoomba, is expected to perform in several states in USA from next week until August 16 this year. The group with a variety of tunes, combined with waist wiggling ...

Add in the loping, reggae-influenced “The Towering Inferno” by The Green Arrows, with its piercing lead guitar lines and Hendrix-like ending, and it’s apparent what’s collected on the 25-track set ...