African music, power, and being in colonial Zimbabwe /
Chikowero, Mhoze, 1972-
African music, power, and being in colonial Zimbabwe / Mhoze Chikowero. - Bloomington Indiana University Press 2015 - xiii, 346 p. : illustrations ; 23 cm. - African expressive cultures Ethnomusicology multimedia . - African expressive cultures. Ethnomusicology multimedia. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-326), 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.
9780253017680 9780253018038
2015017453
Popular music--Social aspects--History--Zimbabwe--20th century.
Popular music--Political aspects--History--Zimbabwe--20th century.
Missions--Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe--Social conditions--20th century.
Zimbabwe--Colonial influence.
ML3917.Z55 / C55 2015
780.96891
African music, power, and being in colonial Zimbabwe / Mhoze Chikowero. - Bloomington Indiana University Press 2015 - xiii, 346 p. : illustrations ; 23 cm. - African expressive cultures Ethnomusicology multimedia . - African expressive cultures. Ethnomusicology multimedia. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-326), 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.
9780253017680 9780253018038
2015017453
Popular music--Social aspects--History--Zimbabwe--20th century.
Popular music--Political aspects--History--Zimbabwe--20th century.
Missions--Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe--Social conditions--20th century.
Zimbabwe--Colonial influence.
ML3917.Z55 / C55 2015
780.96891