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, ...

Berkeley’s Erica Azim will perform Shona mbira music at the Phillips School of Massage this Friday. A 1,000-year tradition in Zimbabwe, Shona mbira music has been used for centuries to call family ...

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 ...

In all the focus the Western world has placed on the individual, it has lost sight of the family—both immediate and extended versions, encompassing the members of a shared culture. In part that's due ...

Zimbabwean singer Chiwoniso grew up on a soundtrack of Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin and even Mozart. But her father, an ethnomusicologist, made sure that she also knew the songs ...

What happened to good old Christmas releases? In the past when Gramma Records and Zimbabwe Music Corporation were truly active, they would, around this time, release compilation albums of the singles ...

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 ...

For singer/songwriter Chiwoniso Maraire, Monday’s debut performance at Jazz Alley is like coming home. One of Zimbabwe’s biggest stars, Chiwoniso, who records and performs solely under her first name, ...

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