Selected Publications
BOOKS
2016. Oliver Mtukudzi: Living Tuku Music in Zimbabwe, Indiana University Press, African Expressive Cultures series
DIGITAL PROJECTS
Sekuru’s Stories. 2019. https://sekuru.org
Open-access digital monograph supported by an ACLS Fellowship. Reviews of this project appear in: Reviews in Digital Humanities 1(1), Journal of the American Musicological Society 73(2), African Music 11(2), Yearbook for Traditional Music 52, and Ethnomusicology Forum 29(3).
Mhare DzeNhare. 2024. https://ambuya.org
Open-access digital humanities project, in conjunction with a musical album under contract with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
ARTICLES
2024. “Decolonial by Design: Building Sekuru’s Stories,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 18(4), Special issue “Digital Sankofa: Understanding the Past and Futures of Black Digital Humanities.”
2022. “Outside the house, there are no laws: Musical practice and ritual dynamics at Shona kurova guva ceremonies,” Ethnomusicology Forum 30(3): 422-442.
2021. “Music under the Ground: A Century of Scholarship on the Ground-Bow in Africa,” Ethnomusicology 65(2): 324-349.
2018. “Reassessing the Zimbabwean Chipendani,” African Music 10(2): 140-166.
2014. “Learning in secret: gender, age, and the clandestine transmission of Zimbabwean mbira dzavadzimu music,” Ethnomusicology Forum 23(1): 110-134.
2013. “Listening in the wilderness: The audience reception of Oliver Mtukudzi’s music in the Zimbabwean diaspora,” Ethnomusicology 57(2): 261-285.
2012. “Images of Health: Oliver Mtukudzi’s Musical Approach to HIV/AIDS,” American Journal of Public Health, 102(7): 1928-1929.
2009. “Carrying Spirit in Song: Music and the Making of Ancestors at Zezuru Kurova Guva Ceremonies,” African Music 8(3): 65-84.
BOOK CHAPTERS
2025. “What’s a Hero?: Music, Memory, Martyrdom in Postcolonial Zimbabwe,” Oxford Handbook on Protest Music. London: Oxford University Press.
2021. “The Social Dynamics of Three Zimbabwean Musical Bows: The Chipendani, Mukube, and Dzikamunhenga,” Musical Bows of Southern Africa, ed. Sazi Dlamini. Bloomsbury Academic. 157-182.
2019. “Zimbabwean Hosho in Mbira Ensembles, Possession Ceremonies, and on a Global Stage” in Mbira Music | Musics. Structures and Processes, edited by Klaus-Peter Brenner. Göttingen Studies in Musicology / Göttinger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, ed. Andreas Waczkat and Birgit Abels, vol. 9. Hildesheim: Olms. (Proceedings of the International Congress of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Göttingen, Germany, 4-8 September 2012).
2011. “‘What Shall We Do?’” Agency and Disclosure in Oliver Mtukudzi’s Songs about AIDS,” The Culture of AIDS: Hope and Healing Through the Arts in Africa, ed. Gregory Barz and Judah Cohen. Oxford University Press. pp. 241-255.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2022. “The Art of Mbira and Mbira’s Restless Dance: An Archive of Improvisation.” Book Review, Ethnomusicology. 66(3): 522-528.
2021. “Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life.” Book review, Ethnomusicology Forum 30(3): 468-470.
2021. “The Ground Bow in Zimbabwe and Beyond,” Of Note: A Blog of the American Musical Instrument Society. https://www.amis.org/post/the-ground-bow-in-zimbabwe-and-beyond
2018. “Chicago Dzviti photograph collection” (Archival finding aid). Rare Books, Preservation, and Special Collections, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/finding-aids/D537
2017. “Mabimbi ehurukuro navaridzi vechipendani vanonzi Sekuru Tute Wincil Chigamba naSekuru Compound Muradzikwa / Excerpts from interviews with chipendani players Sekuru Tute Wincil Chigamba and Sekuru Compound Muradzikwa,” Proceedings of the 1st Bow Music Conference, Durban, South Africa, 24-27 February, 2016.
2014. “Opening the Door to Difference: Questions of Gender, Identity, and Ethics in Ethnomusicology.” Ellen Koskoff, interviewed by Jennifer W. Kyker. El oído pensante 2 (2): 1-21.
2014. “From scholarship to activism: Musical ethnography, women’s education, and HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe,” Sound Matters. https://www.ethnomusicology.org/blogpost/1002374/182507/From-scholarship-to-activism-in-Zimbabwe