Welcome to the second episode in this series devoted to Zimbabwean music. Here, we'll listen to several of stylistic conventions of Shona mbira music. We'll listen for the two melodic parts musicians play on mbira (the kushaura or lead part and kutsinhira or refrain part). We'll also listen to the hosho or gourd rattles that accompany mibra playing, to the vocal styles sung to mbira accompaniment, and to the cross rhythms that give mbira music its distinct sound.