Mwesa Isaiah Mapoma
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Mwesa Isaiah Mapoma is one of Zambia
's best-known living ethnomusicologists. He received his ethnomusicological training from University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA). His dissertation research focused on the royal musicians of the Bemba people
in Zambia's Luapula province. His field recordings are housed in the UCLA ethnomusicology archive.
Zambia
Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
's best-known living ethnomusicologists. He received his ethnomusicological training from University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
(UCLA). His dissertation research focused on the royal musicians of the Bemba people
Bemba people
The Bemba belong to a large group of peoples mainly in the Northern, Luapula and Copperbelt Provinces of Zambia who trace their origins to the Luba and Lunda states of the upper Congo basin, in what became Katanga Province in southern Congo-Kinshasa...
in Zambia's Luapula province. His field recordings are housed in the UCLA ethnomusicology archive.
Recommended reading
- Mapoma, Isaiah Mwesa, "The Use of Folk Music among Some Bemba Church Congregations in Zambia", 72-88, Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, 1, 1969
- Mapoma, Isaiah Mwesa, Ingomba: The Royal Musicians of the Bemba People of Luapula Province in Zambia UCLA PhD dissertation.
- Mapoma, Isaiah Mwesa, The Determinants of Style in the Music of Ingomba, UCLA MA thesis.