Today’s Google Doodle focuses on the mbira instrument. Google Today’s doodle is also accompanied by a game wherein the user can “play” the mbira using their laptop or handheld device. Over hundreds of ...

Listeners who come to traditional African music from the American variety will find it a refreshingly organic experience. The sonorities reflect a variety of instruments both ancient and modern, ...

Today's Google Doodle is celebrating Zimbabwe's national instrument, the mbira, for Zimbabwe's Culture Week. The Google Doodle follows a Zimbabwean girl's experience of discovering and learning to ...

John Thomerson (left) plays the mbira next to master mbira musician “Sinyoro” Caution Shonhai. When SKyCTC Academic Adviser John Thomerson first picked up a mbira, a Southern African “thumb piano,” as ...

The Mbira sound has always been the core of Zimbabwe’s music and sonic identity. Even in the face of emergent genres, the unique and globally-renowned traditional sound has remained resilient, even ...

Two visiting artists will bring Zimbabwean music for the mbira — a traditional instrument that has been popular in that part of Africa for centuries — to the Pitzer Center on the UC Davis campus at 2 ...

A small audience gathered this year at a small theater on Duke’s East Campus to hear the story of Moyo, a fine musician and a fine man who was murdered during Zimbabwe’s civil war in the 1970s. The ...

May 21 (UPI) --Google is celebrating Zimbabwe's national instrument, the mbira, with a new Doodle as Zimbabwe's Culture Week begins. The mbira originated in Southern Africa and serves as the cultural ...

May 21st marks the beginning of Culture Week in Zimbabwe, and Google is joining in the celebration with a homepage Doodle game that lets you play Zimbabwe’s national instrument, the mbira. Today’s ...

Thursday’s Google Doodle, celebrated the mbira, an ancient, musical instrument of the Shona people in Zimbabwe, in honor of Zimbabwe’s Culture Week. The mbira is Zimbabwe’s national instrument. Google ...