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Paul Berliner
Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music
Music
paul.berliner@duke.edu
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
105 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications
photograph of mbira performance techique
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2010
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“Art Farmer on Jazz Learning and Improvisation”
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Jazzforschung / Jazz Research
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December 2007
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The Art of Mbira: A Biography of Musical Knowledge Featuring the Repertory and Artistic Practices of Mbira Master Cosmas Magaya
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2007
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Victory and Sorrow: The Life and Music of Jazz Prodigy Booker T. Little
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2007
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The Heart that Remembers: A Tale of Zimbabwe’s Musicians in a Time of War
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2007
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Afropop Worldwide Interview [Improvisation in Jazz and Zimbabwean Music]
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2007
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Playing it forward
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Duke Magazine
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January 2007
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Grasping Shona Artworks: A Case Study of Zimbabwean Mbira Music
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2006
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Sound the trumpet
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2005
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Zimbabwe: In time and tines
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May 2004
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Music and Civil War in Zimbabwe
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2003
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Zimbabwe: The Soul of Mbira and Zimbabwe: Shona Mbira Music
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2002
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Thinking in Jazz: Improvisation as Composition
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2002
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Las Vicisitudes del Solista/Les Viciissittudes du Doliste
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2002
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The Collective Aspects of Jazz Improvisation
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1996
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White doctor, black music: what Goldberg’s mbira taught me - reflection on racism and African culture
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Commonweal
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June 1994
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Thinking In Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation
Book
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1994
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Thinking in Jazz
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Jazz Changes
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1994
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Composing in the moment
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Jazz Educators Journal
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1994
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The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe
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1993
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The Relationship Between the Mbira and the Mbira Player
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1993
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Earth: Voices of A Planet (The Paul Winter Consort)
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1989
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Crips, Licks and Jamming: The Implications of Traditional Jazz Learning for the University
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Fanfare Magazine
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March 1982
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The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe
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1981
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The Artistry of John Kunaka, Master Mbira Maker
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African Arts
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November 1980
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The Sun Rises Late Here
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1979
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Claudia Schmidt
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1979
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The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe
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1978
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Common Ground (The Paul Winter Consort)
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1978
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Political Sentiment in Shona Song and Oral Literature
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Essays in Arts and Science
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March 1977
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Shona Mbira Music
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1977
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The Poetic Song Texts Accompanying The Mbira Dza Vadzimu
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Ethnomusicology
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September 1976
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Vocal Styles Accompanying the Mbira Dza Vadzimu
Journal Article
Zambezia
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March 1975
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Music and Spirit Possession At a Shona Bira
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African Music
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1975
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Soda Bottles, Whale Bones, Sitars and Shells--A World Music Perspective
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Music Educators Journal
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March 1973
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The Soul of Mbira
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1973
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