Title: Zimbabwe dance : rhythmic forces, ancestral voices : an aesthetic analysis /
Authors: Welsh-Asante, Kariamu
Publisher: Africa World Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Folk dancing Zimbabwe.; Shona (African people) Zimbabwe Social life and customs.; Ndebele (African people) Zimbabwe Social life and customs.; Zimbabwe Social life and customs.
Abstract: "In Zimbabwe Dance, Dr. Welsh Asante's interviews with the keepers of one nation's oral history have yielded a harvest of information on two specific ethnic groups, the Ndebele and the Shona, and their traditional dances, the Muchongoyo and the Jerusarema. Her descriptive analysis of indigenous cultural motifs, myths, and symbols provides us with a "living text" on music, song, and rhythm that radiates - and replenishes - the spirit, the values, and the worldview of a distinctive African society."