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, ...

Sometimes it takes an outsider to fully appreciate a culture’s traditions. In 1972 American musician and budding ethnomusicologist Paul Berliner traveled to Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) to study the mbira ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Today's Google Doodle is celebrating Zimbabwe's national instrument, ...

The Center for World Music presents Mbira Bhururu: Songs of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. Experience the rich cultural and musical heritage of Zimbabwe through the traditional sounds of the mbira ...

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 ...

A virtuoso of the mbira, a plucked instrument, he shared his knowledge with the wider world to preserve wisdom handed down orally. He died of Covid-19. By Jon Pareles This obituary is part of a series ...

“Can you explain how you fall in love?” asks Erica Azim. “In a certain way it’s an impossible question.” Yet it’s a conundrum the Berkeley native has contemplated for half a century, every time she’s ...

September is a month which we dedicate to celebrating the mbira instrument. Zimbabwe has been highly associated with mbira music as it has seen great artists and legends like Chiwoniso Maraire, Stella ...

Bingham Art Gallery will be hosting an evening of Shona mbira music at 5 p.m. on Sunday with guest Patience Munjeri and MU’s Chiyedza Mbira Ensemble. A mbira is a type of thumb piano from Zimbabwe ...

May 21 (UPI) --Google is celebrating Zimbabwe's national instrument, the mbira, with a new Doodle as Zimbabwe's Culture Week begins. The mbira originated in Southern Africa and serves as the cultural ...