I illustrate how music is a central mode of ritual practice at kurova guva, where it is considered ritually efficacious in enabling participants to reclaim the spirit of the deceased as a lineage ancestor. At the same time, I suggest that musical practice also participates in the continual ...
It will be argued that the ritual-myth of Kurova Guva rests on the acceptance that someone physically dies. However, the physical death of the flesh is not the ultimate terminus of 'human' life. The Kurova Guva ritual-myth ceremony reasserts the continued spiritual existence of the dead ...
The ritual integration of the deceased's spirit as an ancestor to the family ('kurova guva') is viewed as one of the biggest doctrinal problems that the Roman Catholic Church in Zimbabwe ever faced. However, the ultimate acceptance of the 'kurova guva' ritual as an approved liturgical ...
Yearbook for Traditional MusicRutsate, J. (2010). "Mhande" dance in the "kurova guva" ceremony: An enactment of Karanga spirituality, Yearbook for Traditional Music, 42, 81-99, Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/41201381, Accessed: 20-07-2016....
Research report: a description of the ceremony of kurova guvaShona ceremonyZambezia