Musical Bows of Southern Africa

Sazi Dlamini is a lecturer in musicology at University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His scholarly and performance interests include indigenous musical bows, South African popular music history, free-improvisation, new music and children’s indigenous musical performance. He composes and performs on ugubhu, umakhweyana, umqangala and uhadi musical bows and builds flutes, traditional harps from bamboo, reed, horn, calabash and recycled materials. He is founder of the International Bow Music Conference and Insurrections Ensemble and is currently Senior Research Fellow for the ReCentering AfroAsia Project.

Preface
1. A Brief Introduction to Musical Bows in Southern Africa
Bernhard Bleibinger (University of Fort Hare, South Africa)
2. Chipendani (Mouth Bow) – the Origin of the Shona Mbira Harmonic System and of Andrew Tracey’s ‘Basic KalimbaCore’ with an Appendix on the Venda Tshihwana
Klaus-Peter Brenner (University of Göttingen, Germany)
3. Musical Bows of Namibia
Dave Dargie (independent scholar)
4. Umakhweyana and ugubhu Zulu musical bows as inkokha, imvingo, inkohlisa, uqwabe and isiqwemqwemana
Sazi Dlamini (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
5. The Social Dynamics of Three Zimbabwean Musical Bows: The Chipendani, Mukube, and Ground-bow
Jennifer W. Kyker (University of Rochester, USA)
6. The Sitontolo Mouthbow of eSwatini: Embodiment, Stories and Music
Cara Stacey (independent scholar) and Vusi Sibandze (independent scholar)
7. Musical Bows of the AmaXhosa
David Dargie (independent scholar)
8. Eastern Kalahari Bow Music
Jürgen Schöpf (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)
Contributor Biographies
Index