Mbira's Restless Dance: An Archive of Improvisation

by Paul F. Berliner and Cosmas Magaya

Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner and Cosmas Magaya's Mbira's Restless Dance documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart of this work lies the analysis of the improvisatory processes that propel mbira music's magnificent creativity.

Mbira's Restless Dance is written to be played. This two-volume,...

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022662627X
• ISBN13: 9780226626277
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 912 Pages