Origin: This is a religious (Catholic) Shona song from Zimbabwe. Shona is the tribe and the language.
Orchestration: Voices and drums
I chose to post this type of song because my culture bearer interview was with a priest who worked for several years with the Shona people in Zimbabwe. I learned how conservative they are, and how they use music, particularly singing, to worship and express themselves. The way they express through music is much different from how we do in our Western tradition--in a nutshell, they are much more outward and spontaneous with expression of emotions, and singing is a vehicle for that expression. One other thing that my interviewee commented on a lot was the "big" quality of the voices he heard--they were not trained in the traditional sense, but all of the people learned to sing that way. I think it is very interesting how many different parts of music and performing are passed down in aural traditions.
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