Deep Roots -Zimbabwean Drums Cd
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After
decades of drumming and teaching Shona music, Jona has put together a
debut album on Zimbabwean music. This album features popular Shona
drumming rhythms especially in the eastern part of Zimbabwe. The songs,
Mbakumba, Mbira, Muroora are familiar in Masvingo, the eastern part of
Zimbabwe. Jerimana is a genre of Ndebele war dance music found in the
Southern part of Zimbabwe. Legend has it that, this music involved in
the 1800s when a war broke between the Germans and Ndebele people. The
Ndebele people dance to this music imitating the Germans' galloping
horses during the legendary war. This album expands world music
horizons to researchers, drum circle facilitators, Ethnomusicologists,
musicologists, dancers, teachers, students and percussionists.