Revolution Mbira
Podcast |
The Doc Project
Publisher |
CBC
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Apr 23, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:49:13
The mbira is a traditional Zimbabwean instrument that looks like a box with metal tongs spread out like eyelashes. It makes music that sounds like wind chimes and waterfalls. Growing up in Zimbabwe, Chaka Zinyemba was taught the mbira was 'bad.' A century of European colonialism had forced the instrument underground, with colonizers branding it as "evil" and "devil music." Chaka never anticipated that he would be a driving force behind the instrument's revival -- a revival that found a groundswell in Western Canada.

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