African music, power, and being in colonial Zimbabwe /

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Author / Creator:	Chikowero, Mhoze, 1972- author.
Imprint:	Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2015] ©2015
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	African expressive cultures Ethnomusicology multimedia African expressive cultures. Ethnomusicology multimedia.
Subject:	Popular music -- Social aspects -- Zimbabwe -- History -- 20th century. Popular music -- Political aspects -- Zimbabwe -- History -- 20th century. Missions -- Zimbabwe. Colonial influence. Missions. Popular music -- Political aspects. Popular music -- Social aspects. Social conditions. Zimbabwe -- Social conditions -- 20th century. Zimbabwe -- Colonial influence. Zimbabwe. Electronic book. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11755198

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ISBN:	9780253018090 0253018099 9780253017680 0253017688 9780253018038 025301803X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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 begins in the 1890s with missionary crusades against African performative cultures and African students being inducted into mission bands, which contextualize the music of segregated urban and mining company dance halls in the 1930s, and he builds genealogies of the Chimurenga music later popularized by guerrilla artists like Dorothy Masuku, Zexie Manatsa, Thomas Mapfumo, and others in the 1970s. Chikowero shows how Africans deployed their music and indigenous knowledge systems to fight for their freedom from British colonial domination and to assert their cultural sovereignty.
Other form:	Print version: Chikowero, Mhoze, 1972- African music, power, and being in colonial Zimbabwe 9780253017680

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