Search the Dandemutande Listserve Archive

What Is It?

http://www.dandemutande.org/ is a well-known source for Zimbabwean music and culture. It is perhaps the largest single site for mbira information. It includes a longstanding mail list (listserve).

But anyone who has tried to find info in the listserve archive knows how difficult it is. It is only accessible by author and by category. If you do not know beforehand who wrote upon your subject of interest nor how that message was categorized you are out of luck, and your topic is inaccessible and remains unknown.

We hope this customized search makes finding things a little easier. It is not foolproof, it is not exhaustive, it is not concise, but often it will turn up a topic, keyword, author, concept, or combination.

How It Works

Your browser must have javascript enabled to use this search. The bit of javascript underlying this page produces a Google search for “site:dandemutande.org "Dandemutande Information Service" yourtarget(s)”, as you can see on the search result page.

This limits the search to your target(s) at the Dandemutande site only on pages with the distinctive title for the listserve. By the way, every hit will have this title, “Dandemutande Information Service,” so you must peruse the blurb to determine if the hit might be what you are looking for.

How to Use It

Google search rules apply. If you get too many hits (result items), narrow your search with additional specific terms. If you don't get any hits, broaden your search with fewer (or only one) terms. To modify your search, change your target words, either by using the back button to return to the search textbox here, or on the Google results page. If the latter, leave the site and title as it is.

Be forwarned that the Dandemutande listserve archive pages contain many “hidden” keywords and categories. Your browser never displays these except by using the view source function, but they are all seen by Google, so may show up in the blurb for each hit. Thus you may get hits that apparently have none of your terms—they are hidden keywords and categories.