Mbira’s Restless Dance: An Archive of Improvisation
By Paul F. Berliner (NHC Fellow, 1996–97; 2010–11) 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 … Continued
