| Intro | Zambian ethnomusicologist | ||
| Is |
Ethnomusicologist Musicologist |
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| From | Zambia | ||
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Academia Music Social science |
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| Gender | male | ||
| Birth |
1936 |
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| Age | 85 years | ||
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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.