African music, power, and being in colonial Zimbabwe / Mhoze Chikowero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chikowero, Mhoze, 1972- author.

Series:

African expressive cultures.

Ethnomusicology multimedia.

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.

Zimbabwe--Social conditions--20th century.

Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe--Colonial influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2015]

Summary:

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.

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 and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253018090

0253018099

OCLC:

924717634