African music, power, and being in colonial Zimbabwe
By: Mhoze Chikowero
Series: African expressive cultures; Ethnomusicology multimedia; African expressive cultures; Ethnomusicology multimedia
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780253017680; 9780253018038
Subjects: Social conditions; Popular music; Missions; Colonial influence; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical and discographical references (pages 311-326) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Cross-cultural encounters : song, power, and being; title: Missionary witchcrafting African being : cultural disarmament; title: Purging the "heathen" song, mis/grafting the missionary hymn; title: "Too many don'ts" : reinforcing, disrupting the criminalization of African musical cultures; title: Architectures of control : African urban re/creation; title: The "tribal dance" as a colonial alibi : ethnomusicology and the tribalization of African being; title: Chimanjemanje : performing and contesting colonial modernity; title: The many moods of "Skokiaan" : criminalized leisure, underclass defiance, and self-narration; title: Usable pasts : crafting Madzimbabwe through memory, tradition, song; title: Cultures of resistance : genealogies of Chimurenga song; title: Jane Lungile Ngwenya : a transgenerational conversation; title: Epilogue. Postcolonial legacies : song, power, and knowledge production.