UC Berkeley Presents Zimbabwean Musicologist, Paul Berliner
The Heart that Remembers: A Tale of Musicians during Zimbabwe's
Liberation Struggle*
Performing Arts, February 17, 5 p.m.,Durham Studio Theater (Dwinelle Hall)
*Paul Berliner in performance.*
Speaker/Performer: Paul Berliner, Duke University
Sponsor: Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, Department of
Paul Berliner's career has been spent at the intersection of
academics, human rights and music in the African nation of Zimbabwe.
A professor of ethnomusicology at Duke University, he is the author
of the classic /Soul of the Mbira/ and /Thinking in Jazz: The
Infinite Art of Improvisation/. "The Heart that Remembers" is a
mixed-genre presentation combining lecture with dramatic reading and
performance of traditional Zimbabwean mbira music to tell the story
of Zimbabwean musicians caught in the middle of a civil war. It
explores the place of mbira music in the social and religious lives
of Zimbabweans during years of the Liberation Struggle and in its
aftermath. The power of the mbira's sound, intensifying emotion and
inviting participation, as well as carrying songtexts, made it an
important site of struggle and, thereby, a critical prism into
understanding Zimbabwean politics. Berliner's performance is based
upon his decades-long relationship with many of the musicians.
Presented by UC Berkeley's Graduate Group in Performance Studies
(TDPS) with co-sponsorship from the Center for African Studies.
Event Contact: 510-643-6965
Liberation Struggle*
Performing Arts, February 17, 5 p.m.,Durham Studio Theater (Dwinelle Hall)
*Paul Berliner in performance.*
Speaker/Performer: Paul Berliner, Duke University
Sponsor: Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, Department of
Paul Berliner's career has been spent at the intersection of
academics, human rights and music in the African nation of Zimbabwe.
A professor of ethnomusicology at Duke University, he is the author
of the classic /Soul of the Mbira/ and /Thinking in Jazz: The
Infinite Art of Improvisation/. "The Heart that Remembers" is a
mixed-genre presentation combining lecture with dramatic reading and
performance of traditional Zimbabwean mbira music to tell the story
of Zimbabwean musicians caught in the middle of a civil war. It
explores the place of mbira music in the social and religious lives
of Zimbabweans during years of the Liberation Struggle and in its
aftermath. The power of the mbira's sound, intensifying emotion and
inviting participation, as well as carrying songtexts, made it an
important site of struggle and, thereby, a critical prism into
understanding Zimbabwean politics. Berliner's performance is based
upon his decades-long relationship with many of the musicians.
Presented by UC Berkeley's Graduate Group in Performance Studies
(TDPS) with co-sponsorship from the Center for African Studies.
Event Contact: 510-643-6965
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