Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe 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. The main goal of this study is to reconsider the colonial
demarcations of southern African mbira music provided by the
International Library of African Music (ILAM). These mbira
recordings reveal that the harmonic system used in different
lamellophones (or mbiras) in southern Africa is musically related.
The analysis of sound archives in Africa is an essential tool to
envision the new ways in which African culture can be directed not
only from postcolonial notions of nationhood or Afrocentric
discourses but also for the necessity of bringing awareness of the
circulation of musical cultures from and beyond colonial African
borders.
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