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

By: Chikowero, Mhoze, 1972- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: African expressive cultures: ; Ethnomusicology multimedia: Publisher: Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (364 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780253018090 (e-book).Subject(s): Popular music -- Social aspects -- Zimbabwe -- History -- 20th century | Popular music -- Political aspects -- Zimbabwe -- History -- 20th century | Missions -- Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe -- Social conditions -- 20th century | Zimbabwe -- Colonial influenceGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 780.96891 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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Includes bibliographical references, discography 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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