iMbizo YamaKhono Season 4

Real time documentation of the wisdom, knowledge and healing of South African music heritage.

Heavily insightful new interviews and recordings combine with audio visual music and heritage archives to reveal the education from African oral history and heritage. Compositions, repertoire and approaches, both ancient and futuristic enlighten seekers to a new form of music learning in South Africa.

iMbizo yamaKhono is a gathering to extend the legacy of South African musical excellence beyond limitations. The preservation and promotion new sounds, styles and approaches to self-expression is a multiplied through gatherings of the arts. iMbizo's bring people. In South Africa interdependence, coming together is an ancient way of life described in the philosophy of ubuntu.

In this expansive Afrocentric quality free music education Web Series, short music education documentaries profile star performers, composers and wisdom keepers. Each education documentary is accompanied with a Pre-Task and Post-Task worksheet engaging the student in further research and musical learning beyond the documentary. A bonus question facilitates knowledge and skills to be shared in an inspired, collaborative and innovative way. iMbizo yamaKhono is perfectly suited to South African syllabus grades 10-12, bridging course to university and as resources for national libraries and archives.

Key themes are agency and action in the creative process. Insight to philosophy, economy, spiritual practice, indigenous knowledge systems, music, healing, cultural memory, general knowledge, creative economy and cultural activism is outcomes based both to syllabus and career. In this e-learning, e-music course we are interactive, participatory, provocative and rely on music to be heard and played, on photos and images, on audio-visual media and on inspiration to carry the message across.