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African music, power, and being in colonial Zimbabwe / Mhoze Chikowero.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3917.Z55 C55 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chikowero, Mhoze, 1972- author.
- Series:
- African expressive cultures
- Ethnomusicology multimedia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Social aspects--Zimbabwe--History--20th century.
- Popular music.
- Popular music--Political aspects--Zimbabwe--History--20th century.
- Missions--Zimbabwe.
- Missions.
- Colonial influence.
- Social conditions.
- Popular music--Political aspects.
- History.
- Popular music--Social aspects.
- Zimbabwe--Social conditions--20th century.
- Zimbabwe.
- Zimbabwe--Colonial influence.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero reads African sources to interrogate the utilize the confessional colonial archive, to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and self-liberation. Chikowero's book begins in the 1890s with missionary crusades against African performative cultures and with African students being inducted into mission bands, contextualize the music of segregated urban and mining company dance halls in the 1930s and builds genealogies of the Chimurenga music later popularized by guerrilla guitarists like Dorothy Masuku, Zexie Manatsa, Thomas Mapfumo, and others in the 1970s. Chikowero shows how Africans deployed their music and indigenous knowledge systems to fight for their freedom from British colonial domination and to assert their cultural sovereignty. Book jacket.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references, discography (pages 311-326) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 025301803X
- 9780253017680
- 0253017688
- 9780253018038
- OCLC:
- 908935186
- Publisher Number:
- 99965664494
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