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Mbira (/ ə m ˈ b ɪər ə / əm-BEER-ə) are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe.They consist of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with attached staggered metal tines, played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs (at minimum), the right forefinger (most mbira), and sometimes the left forefinger.
The mbira playing and singing are all improvised off the familiar basic patterns, resulting in a constantly changing polyphonic texture. In this ceremony, music that was favored by the ancestors when they were alive is used to summon the spirits to possess living mediums; thus the religious belief system helps to preserve older musical practices.
Chartwell Shorayi Dutiro (1957 – 2019) was a Zimbabwean musician, who started playing mbira when he was four years old at the protected village, Kagande; about two hours drive from Harare, where his family was moved by the Salvation Army missionaries during the Chimurenga. Even though the missionaries had banned traditional music, he learned ...
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The mbira has become a national instrument of sorts in Zimbabwe. [12] It has a number of variants, including the nhare , mbira dzavadzimu , the Mbira Nyunga Nyunga , njari mbira , and matepe . The mbira is played at religious and secular gatherings, and different mbiras have different purposes.
Although Mujuru played all of Zimbabwe's five types of mbira, he specialty was the mbira dzavadzimu. [citation needed] Ephat Mujuru was raised in a small village in Manicaland, near the Mozambican border, and was taught to play the mbira by his grandfather, Muchatera Mujuru. Muchatera was a medium for one of the most important ancestor spirits ...
Forward Kwenda playing mbira near Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA, October 10, 2011. Forward Kwenda is a mbira performer from Zimbabwe. [1] He was given the name "Forward" due to his involvement in many activities including his performances for guerrilla forces during the Rhodesian Bush War.
A family photo of Myra Mills, the great-great-grandmother of retired Boston University professor Michelle Johnson, who traveled to South Carolina and North Carolina to research her family history.