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The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe

The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe

Berliner, Paul F.

Paperback

Music Instruction: Percussion

ISBN10: 0226043797
ISBN13: 9780226043791
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Jun 1 1993
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.55 Depth: 8.49
Language: English
This sensitive, scholarly portrayal of Shona musicians and the African Musical tradition is highly engaging and comprehensive in its range of data. Paul Berliner provides the complete cultural context for the music and an intimate, precise account of the meaning of the instrument and its music.

Paul Berliner's The Soul of Mbira is probably the best ethnography ever written about an African musical tradition. It is a complete classic . . . . I know of no other instrument with the range of the mbira, and the book is equal to the instrument.--John Chernoff

[The Soul of Mbira] illustrates the fact that Shona mbira music in its beauty, subtlety, and virtuosity demands the same kind of respect that we might hold for any other classical music.--David Reck, Parabola

The book is a model of ethnomusicological thinking and investigation and it suggests a specific way of approaching a complex socio-musical system.--John Baily, Popular Music

When next someone asks 'What is ethnomusicology?' or 'What do ethnomusicologists do?' I shall suggest this book. . . . This is a landmark in ethnomusicological literature. Berliner succeeds in conveying both the joy that goes with mbira playing and the mystic relationship between the player and his instrument. In short, this is humanized ethnomusicology.--K.A. Gourlay, Ethnomusicology

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