Tracing the Mbira sound archive in Zimbabwe / Luis Gimenez Amoros.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Bloomsbury)
Main Author: Gimenez Amoros, Luis (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, England : Zed Books, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Reconsidering the colonial archive
  • The mobilisation of Shona musical identity during colonial times
  • Reconsidering the colonial creation of Shona musical identity and Shona Mbiras
  • An attempt to link colonial and postcolonial narratives in the sound archive: Andrew Tracey's "Shona chord finder" and the Mbira country beyond borders
  • Lyrics and reinterpretations of Shona-Mbira recordings
  • Reconsidering the sound archive and postcolonial nationhood
  • The centralisation of great Zimbabwe and the multiple versions of chaminuka in the sound archive
  • Chimurenga music: Mbira musical culture and the subaltern versions of postcolonial nationhood
  • The digital return and revitalisation project of the Mbira sound archive in Zimbabwe
  • Digital return and repatriation of the sound archive in Zimbabwe
  • Revitalising the repertoire through Zimbabwean musicians
  • The digital return in the place of the recordings
  • Curricula transformation in the African academy through the sound archive.