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, ...

Today’s Google Doodle focuses on the mbira instrument. Google Today’s doodle is also accompanied by a game wherein the user can “play” the mbira using their laptop or handheld device. Over hundreds of ...

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Harare — IT is about time serious promoters come on board to promote some of the original vibes from the mother land. I am, of course, referring to mbira music, which is Zimbabwe's major sound beat.

WILLIAMSTOWN -- When high-ranking Zimbabwean mbira player Forward Kwenda absorbs himself in playing his instrument, the results can be blindingly electric. "Nothing goes through my mind," Kwenda said.

May 21 (UPI) --Google is celebrating Zimbabwe's national instrument, the mbira, with a new Doodle as Zimbabwe's Culture Week begins. The mbira originated in Southern Africa and serves as the cultural ...

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 / ...

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 ...

September is Mbira Month and mbira festivities to mark this year's celebrations have been described as successful. Albert Chimedza of the Mbira Centre told Standardlife&style last week that Mbira ...

Today's Google Doodle is celebrating Zimbabwe's national instrument, the mbira, for Zimbabwe's Culture Week. The Google Doodle follows a Zimbabwean girl's experience of discovering and learning to ...