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Lion songs : Thomas Mapfumo and the music that made Zimbabwe / Banning Eyre.
LIBRA ML3503.Z55 E97 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eyre, Banning, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mapfumo, Thomas.
- Blacks Unlimited (Musical group).
- Popular music--Political aspects--Zimbabwe.
- Popular music.
- Popular music--Zimbabwe--History and criticism.
- Revolutionary ballads and songs--Zimbabwe.
- Revolutionary ballads and songs.
- Popular music--Political aspects.
- Zimbabwe.
- Physical Description:
- 362 pages, 40 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- Chimurenga nights
- Rhodesia
- England is the chameleon, and I the fly
- Singing Shona
- When the spirit comes
- Songs for the book of history
- Bishop and pawn
- Agony of victory
- Zimbabwe
- Snakes in the forest
- Corruption
- Big daddy and the Zimbabwe playboys
- Sporting lions
- Too many ghosts
- Breaking the cycle
- America
- Striking at empires
- Dancing with devils
- The land of the horses
- Lions in winter.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-343), discography (pages 337-339), and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780822359081
- 0822359081
- OCLC:
- 885231631
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