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Readings in Ethnomusicology. Two collections of papers presented at Ethnomusicology Symposia 2010 and 2011. Mitchel Strumpf and Imani Sanga (eds.). University of Dar es Salaam, Dept. of Fine and Performing Arts. 153pp.; 193pp.
Get PDFA modern tradition: the social history of the Zimbabwean Marimba
Get PDFZimbabwean pop superstar Oliver Mtukudzi surprised his fans with a new lineup in 2007, replacing his trademark keyboard and electric guitar with marimba and mbira. \u27Tuku\u27 declared: "This change will inspire the younger generation of artists and make them proud of our traditional instruments” (Mtukudzi n. d). But the Zimbabwean marimba, widespread in urban schools and tourist venues, dates only from the early 1960s, when African xylophones of a modern design were introduced at the Kwanongoma College ofAfrican Music in Bulawayo. The white Rhodesian founders of the private college considered the marimba, then unassociated with the musical practices of the country\u27s major ethnicgroups, an ideal instrument to "serve as a focal point for musical development of the new nation” (Tracey pers. comm. 1989). Today the Kwanongoma marimba is considered by many Zimbabweans to be "part of our culture.
Live From Dar es Salaam: Popular Music and Tanzania\u27s Music Economy. Alex Perullo. 2011. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 459 pp.
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Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa and the heritage of African song
Get PDFJoshua Pulumo Mohapeloa (1908-1982) came from a third-generation Basotho family converted in the nineteenth century by the French-Swiss protestant Société des Missions Évangéliques chez les peuples non-chrétiens á Paris (SMEP; or Paris Evangelical Missionary Society, PEMS) (see Mohapeloa and Phakisi 2009; Gill 1993; Couzens 2003; Legassick 2010). The first three missionaries from PEMS had entered the world of the Basotho in 1833, one of them, Eugene Casalis, a "child of the Revolution and defender of the rights of man [who] helped build up the barricades in the revolution that overthrew the Bourbons” in Paris (Couzens 2003: 77). They were supposed to join a mission on the border of present-day Botswana, but John Philip of the London Missionary Society (LMS) under whose sway PEMS and other protestant missions fell, warned them of unrest, so they journeyed into the interior knowing that their plans might have to be changed upon their arrival at the LMS mission at Philippolis. Here, the unrest and upheaval further to the north was confirmed, and thus the PEMS missionaries were very open to Adam Krotz who directed them towards Basotho Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe (Couzens 2003: 80). He had been fending off the gunrunning and cattle-stealing Korana, and to help his task had already "sent to Philippolis to \u27buy\u27 a missionary”, as historian Martin Legassick puts it (2010: 235). Missions have played a long and complex role in the history of southern Africa, their impact still not fully understood in relation to the development of music in the region. PEMS became the most important mission in what is now called Lesotho, its culture enormously influencing Mohapeloa as he grew up. This article traces some of the ways in which he managed to embrace its influence as a composer while retaining the integrity of the Sotho music that was the basis of his style, in the process laying down an archive of African song. 
On The Rumba River. 2008. By Jacques Sarasin. 82 minutes, colour, DVD. Distributed by First Run Features.
Get PDF\u27Doing it with style\u27: an ethnopoetics study of improvisation and variation in Southern Ewe drum language conversations
No full textTraveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa and Music in the Global Marketplace. Deborah Kapchan, Wesleyan University Press. Middletown, CT. 2007, 325 pages
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Binadamu
No full textBinadamu is about the problems that come from both being wealthy and from losing one\u27s money