The soul of mbira
Subtitle: music and traditions of the Shona people of Zimbabwe : with an appendix, Building and playing a Shona karimba
By: Paul Berliner.
Edition: University of Chicago Press ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Shona (African people) -- Music -- History and criticism.; Musical instruments -- Zimbabwe.; Mbira music -- History and criticism.; Music -- Zimbabwe -- History and criticism.
Description: 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.--Publisher description.
Notes: Discography: p. 301.
Filmography: p. 302.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-300) and index.
Originally published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1978, in series: Perspectives on southern Africa ; 26.