Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe av Luis (University of Fort Hare Zimbabwe Africa) Gimenez Amoros

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<P><EM>Tracing the </EM>Mbira <EM>Sound Archive in Zimbabwe </EM>analyses the revitalisation and repatriation of historical recordings from the largest sound archive in Africa, the International Library of African Music (ILAM). It provides a postcolonial study on the African sound archive divided into three historical periods: the colonial period offers a critical analysis on how ILAM classifies its music through ethnic and linguistic groups; the postcolonial period reconsiders postcolonial nationhood, new/old mobility and cultural border crossing in present Africa; and the recent period of repatriation focuses on the author¿s revitalisation of the sound archive.</P><br/><br/><P>The main goal of this study is to reconsider the colonial demarcations of southern African <EM>mbira</EM> music provided by the International Library of African Music (ILAM). These <EM>mbira</EM> recordings reveal that the harmonic system used in different lamellophones (or <I>mbiras</I>) in southern Africa is