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Name
  
Mwesa Mapoma


Education
  
University of California, Los Angeles

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.

  • 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.

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