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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.

Offer an account of the music of Africa. This title draws on the author's extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continent to compare and contrast a wealth of musical traditions from a range of cultures. It also features a selection of photographs and is accompanied by a compact disc of the author's own recordings.

People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate weddings, inspire political movements, and lull babies to sleep. This title explores why it is that music and dance are so often at the center of our profound personal and social experiences.

"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