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Title: Zimbabwe/ Insingizi
Condition: New
Format: CD
EAN: 3149028002027
Description: These recordings document the music of the Ndebele people who first migrated from Zulu territories into what is now Zimbabwe in the early 19th century. The people are today concentrated in South-Western Zimbabwe close to the second city Bulawayo and make up about 25% of the modern day population of Zimbabwe. Field records of the Ndebele's music are scarce when compared with work done with the Shona people - the only large scale project being Wolfgang Laade's work in the 1980s, so this is a timely collection. Musically there are similarities with the Zulu choirs (Blessings Nqo Nkomo's uncle was a singer with Black Umfolosi) - similarities that presumably hark back to the Ndebele's origins as dissident Zulus. On this album we have tried to propose a mixture of all the styles. You should know that during the colonization period or rather the struggle with the colonizers, our people, when they would leave to fight or came back from it, had warrior songs. We have included these on this recording, along with songs from the introduction of Christianity, when folk started going to church. And then, there are also traditional songs in existance from before the colonization. We have tried to cover all the different aspects present in our country: There are therefore traditional songs (tracks 1 - 8), gospel songs (tracks 9 - 13), but also warrior songs, political and revolutionary songs (tracks 14-17)"" Vusa Mkhaya Ndlovu
No Of Discs: 1
Artist: Various Artists
Record Label: Outhere / Ocora

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