Books, Articles, and Papers
Beach, DN. 1978. “Archaeology, History, and Movement on the Shona Plateau 1300-1850,” Seminar paper presented at the University of Rhodesia, Department of History on July 7th.
Berliner, Paul. 1993 (1978). The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe: With an Appendix, Building and Playing a Shona Karimba. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Brenner, Klaus-Peter. 1997. Chipendani und Mbira: Musikinstrumente, nicht-begriffliche Mathematik und die Evolution der harmonischen Progressionen in der Musik der Shona in Zimbabwe. Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse, 3rd Series, 221. With 2 companion audio CDs. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Byers, Bruce, Robert Cunliffe, and Andrew Hudak. 2001. “Linking the conservation of culture and nature: A case study of sacred forests in Zimbabwe,” Human Ecology 29(2): 187-218.
Eyre, Banning. 2015. Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music that Made Zimbabwe. Durham: Duke University Press.
Goddard, Keith. 1996. “The Soul of Mbira Twenty Years On: A Retrospect,” African Music 7(3): 76–90.
Jones, Claire. 2019. “Shona Mbira Tunings and the Production of New Sounds: Modal Tunings and the Emergence of the Mbira Orchestras,” in Mbira Music | Musics. Structures and Processes, edited by Klaus-Peter Brenner. Göttingen Studies in Musicology / Göttinger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, ed. Andreas Waczkat and Birgit Abels, vol. 9. Hildesheim: Olms. (Proceedings of the International Congress of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Göttingen, Germany, 4-8 September 2012). 201-234. .
_________. 2008. “Shona Women Mbira Players: Gender, Tradition and Nation in Zimbabwe.” Ethnomusicology Forum 17/1: 125-149.
Kaemmer, John. 1975. The Dynamics of a Changing Music System in Rural Rhodesia.” PhD Dissertation, Indiana University.
Lan, David. 1985. Guns and Rain: Guerillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Moon, Jocelyn. 2016. “Uploading Matepe: Online Learning, Sustainability and Repatriation in Northeastern Zimbabwe,” Collegium 21: 190-209.
Perman, Tony. 2007. “Building Bridges: The Creative Processes of Chartwell Dutiro,” In Zimbabwe Mbira Music on an International Stage: Chartwell Dutiro’s Life in Music, eds. Chartwell Dutiro and Keith Howard, 27–40, London: Ashgate.
Phimister, Ian. 2015. “Late nineteenth-century globalization: London and Lomagundi perspectives on mining speculation in southern Africa, 1894–1904,” Journal of Global History 10(1): 27-52.
Scherzinger, Martin. 2001. “Negotiating the Music-Theory/African-Music Nexus: A Political Critique of Ethnomusicological Anti-Formalism and a Strategic Analysis of the Harmonic Patterning of the Shona Mbira Song Nyamaropa,” Perspectives of New Music, 39(1):5-117.
Thram, Diane. 2015. “Understanding Music’s Therapeutic Efficacy With Implications for Why Music Matters,” Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education 14(3): 63-74.
Tomlinson, Gary. 2015. A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity. New York: Zone Books.
Tracey, Andrew. 2015. “The System of the Mbira,” African Music 10(1): 127-149.
___________. 1972.“The Original African Mbira?” African Music 5 (2): 85-104.
___________. 1971. “The nyanga panpipe dance.” African Music 5(1): 73-89.
___________. 1970. “The Matepe Mbira Music of Rhodesia,” African Music 4 (4): 37-61.
___________. 1963. Three Tunes for ‘Mbira Dza Vadzimu’” African Music 3(2): 23-26.
Tracey, Hugh. 1954. “The Social Role of African Music,” African Affairs 53(212): 234-241.
__________. 1932. “The Mbira Class of African Instruments in Rhodesia,” African Music Society Journal 4(3): 78-95.
Turino, Thomas. 2009. “Four Fields of Music Making and Sustainable Living,” The World of Music 51(1): 95–117.
___________. 2000. Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
___________. 1998. “The Mbira, Worldbeat, and the International Imagination,” The World of Music 40(2): 85–106.
Albums
Chitsiga – Drummers & Singers of Guruve. 2010. MBIRA.
Mbira, Stories & Song in Chigamba Village: Kari Muberere Mbira Group. 2010. MBIRA.
Yangu Ndega. 2014. Tute Chigamba.
Muzazananda. 2017. Tute Chigamba, Irene Chigamba, Musekiwa Chingodza, and Ngonidzashe Chingodza.
Archival holdings
Marenje, performed on the njari by Machuni Jambwa Mbewa and Chitembe Mrewa