Kalindula

Kalindula is a Zambian style of music that became popular in the 1970s and is named after the single-string plucked instrument of the same name. In rural regions, Kalindula is played on self-made banjos , in cities on electric guitars . Kalindula developed into a dance music style in the Luapula area under the Bemba , which largely shapes the popular music of Zambia .

The earliest recordings such as those of the Serenje Kalindula group or the Amayenge group are consistently shaped by this. But the guitar soon replaced the self-made banjo . The style gained more and more elegance and integrated more and more elements of pop and rock music . At the beginning of the 1990s, Kalindula enthusiasm had passed its peak, but Kalindula is still considered the most typical Zambian popular music style.

literature

• Ronnie Graham: Kalindula. In: Grove Music Online, 2001