Mbira music / musics
Subtitle: structures and processes : papers presented at the Symposium III.4 of the 15th International Conference of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung at the University of Göttingen, 4th-8th September 2012 : Music / Musics, Structures and Processes
By: Klaus-Peter Brenner (ed.).
Contributors: Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (1946- ); Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (1946- ). Internationaler Kongress
Series: Göttingen studies in musicology = Göttinger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft -- volume 9; Göttingen studies in musicology -- v. 9.
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Hildesheim
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9783487158426
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Mbira; Congresses; Mbira music; Shona (African people); Music
Description: "Mbira Music / Musics. Structures and Processes presents a collection of special studies focussing on some of the many typologically and genetically interrelated lamellophones and the respective web of musical idioms and 'dialects' whose historically dynamic distribution covers the vast south-central African area of what are now the Shona-speaking parts of Zimbabwe and adjacent areas in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa. Besides deepening specific aspects of and exploring amazing new developments branching out from the already well-documented Zezuru mbira dzavadzimu and the Kwanongoma College's, now widespread, schools version of the karimba, these studies also highlight some of the previously underrepresented members of the south-central African lamellophone family such as the Tonga kankobela, the Lala kankobele, the Korekore and Sena-Nyungwe matepe, and the particularly variable and idiosyncratic Ndau mbira dza-VaNdau."--
Notes: Additional material (audio, video and graphic) available online.

"Digital companion resources marked with a D in this book are available online at http://www.gwdg.de/~gsim/gs09/" --Page 6.

"The present volume pools thirteen papers that were (or, in the case of Jennifer w. Kyker's and Gerhard Kubik's papers, were meant to be) presented on September 6, 2012, at the symposium "Mbira Music / Musics. Structures and Processes" during the 15th International Conference of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung in Göttingen."--Page 23.

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : structures and processes, systems and souls  -- Klaus-Peter Brenner; title: The Tonga kankobela now and in the future  -- Michael Baird; title: A multipurpose tuning plan : the 'basic kalimba core' in a musical perspective  -- Marcel van Dijk; title: The nyunganyunga mbira in Zimbabwean schools : a historical legacy of the Kwanongoma College of Music and a Dumisani Maraire number notation innovation  -- Sheasby Matiure; title: Hybridization of Shona mbira instruments : the birth of nyunganhare, karimbashauro, karimbanhovapasi and karimbamutatu  -- Perminus Matiure; title: Cross-cultural collaborative research on Shona mbira music  -- Paul F. Berliner (paper read in the presence of Cosmas Magaya); title: Brevity, ambiguity and expressivity in mbira dzaVaNdau performance  -- Tony Perman; title: Tuned overtones, interlocking hands and resulting melo-rhythmic patterns in matepe music  -- Joel Laviolette; title: 'The system of the mbira' : Andrew Tracey's pioneering exploration of the grammar underlying Shona lamellophone music  -- Laina Gumboreshumba; title: Shona mbira tunings and the production of new sounds : modal tunings and the emergence of the mbira orchestras  -- Claire Jones; title: Zimbabwean hosho playing in mbira ensembles, possession ceremonies, and popular songs  -- Jennifer W. Kyker; title: The motional domain of mbira music : perceptive and metro-rhythmic implications of mbira fingering patterns  -- Gerd Grupe; title: A cognitive firework of model-bound two-handed improvisation : mbira dzaVadzimu master Ephat Mujuru's 'deep' kutsinhira rendition of "Bukatiende diki"  -- Klaus-Peter Brenner; title: Mbira music and Scott Joplin's "Bethena" -- Gerhard Kubik.