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What will be an ideal response?

• Participation by the audience makes them part of a communal performance
• The hand-clapping adds to the polyrhythmic (polymetric) quality of the music (See examples of hand-clapping phrases for mbira music in Worlds of Music Transcription 3-17, p. 143)

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