| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Reconsidering the colonial archive -- The mobilisation of Shona musical identity during colonial times -- Reconsidering the colonial creation of Shona musical identity and Shona Mbiras -- An attempt to link colonial and postcolonial narratives in the sound archive: Andrew Tracey's "Shona chord finder" and the Mbira country beyond borders -- Lyrics and reinterpretations of Shona-Mbira recordings -- Reconsidering the sound archive and postcolonial nationhood -- The centralisation of great Zimbabwe and the multiple versions of chaminuka in the sound archive -- Chimurenga music: Mbira musical culture and the subaltern versions of postcolonial nationhood -- The digital return and revitalisation project of the Mbira sound archive in Zimbabwe -- Digital return and repatriation of the sound archive in Zimbabwe -- Revitalising the repertoire through Zimbabwean musicians -- The digital return in the place of the recordings -- Curricula transformation in the African academy through the sound archive |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Mbira music -- Zimbabwe -- History and criticism
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Shona (African people) -- Music -- History and criticism
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MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Piano & Keyboard.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Percussion.
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Mbira music
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Shona (African people) -- Music
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Zimbabwe
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018010952 |
| ISBN |
9780429012570 |
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0429012578 |
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9780429505539 |
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0429505531 |
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9780429012587 |
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0429012586 |
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9780429012563 |
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042901256X |
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