Bøker i Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology-serien

Explores how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Berliner demonstrates that a lifetime of preparation lies behind the skilled improviser's every note.

"A companion to The Art of Mbira, Mbira's Restless Dance features thirty-nine of master musician Cosmas Magaya's full-length mbira compositions, plus Magaya's commentaries on them--a patchwork of observations, reflections, analyses, performer's notes and pedagogical advice--along with Paul Berliner's notes and interpretations of various features of the music"--Publisher's info.

Audio, video, and musical examples may be accessed on the accompanying website, https:///sites.tufts.edu/ambientsufis