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A Prodigy`s Calling – The Early Musical Biography of Cosmas Magaya, Zimbabwean Mbira Master

Name: A Prodigy`s Calling – The Early Musical Biography of Cosmas Magaya, Zimbabwean Mbira Master
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226835174
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Szerző: Paul F. Berliner

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Kiadó: University of Chicago Press

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The coming-of-age story of a master musician in mid-twentieth century colonial Rhodesia as he learns...

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Szerző

Paul F. Berliner

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2024

oldal

336

EAN

9780226835174

ISBN

0226835170

Enbook ID

45725383

Kiadó

University of Chicago Press

Súly

1000

Méretek

152 x 228

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The coming-of-age story of a master musician in mid-twentieth century colonial Rhodesia as he learns his community’s most cherished art, all while navigating profound social transformation. Ethnomusicologist Paul F. Berliner has been studying Zimbabwean mbira for more than fifty years. When he first arrived in what was then Rhodesia after the nation declared independence from the United Kingdom, he met Cosmas Magaya, a mbira player who would become his teacher and lifelong collaborator. A Prodigy’s Calling chronicles the early years of Magaya’s life, documenting the master mbira player’s journey from child prodigy to established expert. As a child, Magaya was immersed in mbira music through his father’s work as a healer and spirit medium. As Magaya grew, so too did his world; his performances extended beyond the family compound as his skill and knowledge increased, bringing him into contact with a society fraught with decolonial conflict. Following Magaya’s childhood, readers will learn how his upbringing guided his journey through the community’s social networks and how his early sensibilities, proclivities, and talents shaped his development. At the same time, his deepening engagement with music and the ancestors was affected by overlapping tensions between Shona cosmology and Christian ideology, rural and urban lifestyles, and the escalating African nationalist struggle and the white supremacist state. While Magaya’s story reflects profound social changes in the nation, it is also a story of musical apprenticeship. Readers following Magaya’s discovery of ever finer details in the music’s richly layered patterns will enhance their ability to hear mbira music’s forms, variations, and sonic qualities. Linocut illustrations by South African artist Lucas Bambo bring the narrative to life, and Berliner’s spirited storytelling is accompanied by QR codes that take readers directly to recordings of music as Magaya learns it. Appendices for musicians interested in learning or improving their mbira playing complement the story of Magaya’s early life. Inviting the reader into the very tradition it recounts, the book offers intimate insights into the relationships among music, Shona cosmology, and colonial politics in everyday life.

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