African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe /

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In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation. Chikowero's book begin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Chikowero, Mhoze, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Popular music > Social aspects.
Popular music > Political aspects.
Missions.
Colonial influence.
MUSIC > Ethnomusicology.
MUSIC > Reference.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
Musique populaire > Aspect politique > Zimbabwe > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Musique populaire > Aspect social > Zimbabwe > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Missions > Zimbabwe.
Popular music > Political aspects > Zimbabwe > History > 20th century.
Popular music > Social aspects > Zimbabwe > History > 20th century.
Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe > Influence coloniale.
Zimbabwe > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Zimbabwe > Colonial influence.
Zimbabwe > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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