African music, power, and being in colonial Zimbabwe /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington ; Indianapolis :
Indiana University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | African expressive cultures.
Ethnomusicology multimedia. |
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Table of 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.