... again. At each place she stops, she and/or others sing or chant mele to or about the ʻāina, and ʻāina characters sing or chant back to her. The purpose of this chapter is to examine selections of these mele for their artistry and what they tell us about the ʻāina and the worldviews or epistemologies...

.... The chapter juxtaposes the worsening situation in the 1960s and early ’70s as the nationalist struggle turns increasingly violent. Mapfumo sings his first songs in Shona. When he moves to the Mhangura mine to sing and drum with the Hallelujah Chicken Run Band, he and guitarist Joshua Dube begin to experiment...

... This chapter traces crooning’s development and increasing popularity as a new modern song style produced by the microphone in the mid- to late 1920s. Crooning exemplified and helped drive the aesthetic, industrial, and cultural shift in popular singing from the belting theatrical style to a more...

...Singing Stars ...

... “Music as Action: Singing Happens before Sound” posits that sound is a subset of vibration and suggests that singing and listening constitute vital exchanges of energy. It interrogates the basic principles of singing and sound production by examining performance art pieces by Elodie Blanchard...