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African music, power, and being in colonial Zimbabwe
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- Creator
- Mhoze Chikowero
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2015]
- ©2015
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780253018038, 025301803X, 0253017688, 9780253018090, 0253018099, 9780253017680
- OCLC
- ocn908935186, ocn924717634
- Includes bibliographical references, discography (pages 311-326) and index.
- 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