ISBN:
9780253017680
,
9780253018038
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 346 pages
,
illustrations
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
African expressive cultures
Series Statement:
Ethnomusicology multimedia
DDC:
780.96891
Keywords:
Zimbabwe
;
Colonial influence
;
Zimbabwe
;
Social conditions
;
20th century
;
Missions
;
Zimbabwe
;
Popular music
;
Political aspects
;
Zimbabwe
;
History
;
20th century
;
Popular music
;
Social aspects
;
Zimbabwe
;
History
;
20th century
;
Popular music / Social aspects / Zimbabwe / History / 20th century
;
Popular music / Political aspects / Zimbabwe / History / 20th century
;
Missions / Zimbabwe
;
Zimbabwe / Social conditions / 20th century
;
Zimbabwe / Colonial influence
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: cross-cultural encounters: song, power, and being -- Missionary witchcrafting African being: cultural disarmament -- Purging the "heathen" song, mis/grafting the missionary hymn -- "Too many don'ts": reinforcing, disrupting the criminalization of African musical cultures -- Architectures of control: African urban re/creation -- The "tribal dance" as a colonial alibi: ethnomusicology and the tribalization of African being -- Chimanjemanje: performing and contesting colonial modernity -- The many moods of "Skokiaan": criminalized leisure, underclass defiance, and self-narration -- Usable pasts: crafting Madzimbabwe through memory, tradition, song -- Cultures of resistance: genealogies of Chimurenga song -- Jane Lungile Ngwenya: a transgenerational conversation -- Epilogue: postcolonial legacies: song, power, and knowledge production..
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-326), discography (pages 311-326) and index
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