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Tony Perman (ethnomusicology) is a specialist in the music of Zimbabwe and the semiotics of music and emotion. His monograph Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life and edited volume Music Making Community were published by the University of Illinois Press in 2020 and 2024. He has written previously about mbira music, aesthetics, religious experience, and popular music in Zimbabwe in Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology Forum, The Journal of Musicological Research, The Journal of Religion in Africa, African Music, African Studies Review, Open Access Musicology and other edited volumes. He has played and taught the mbira dzavadzimu, nyunganyunga, and mbira dzaVaNdau for many years, having been taught primarily by Chartwell Dutiro, Tute Chigamba, Musekiwa Chingodza, Davison Masiza,  Zivanai Khumbula, and Solomon Madhinga.