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1 online resource (364 pages) : illustrations. |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
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African expressive cultures |
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Ethnomusicology multimedia |
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African expressive cultures.
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Ethnomusicology multimedia.
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Includes bibliographical references, discography and index. |
| 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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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Popular music -- Social aspects -- Zimbabwe -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular music -- Political aspects -- Zimbabwe -- History -- 20th century.
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Missions -- Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Zimbabwe -- Colonial influence.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chikowero, Mhoze. African music, power, and being in colonial Zimbabwe. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015] xiii, 346 pages ; 23 cm. African expressive cultures 9780253017680 |
| ISBN |
9780253017680 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780253018038 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780253018090 (electronic bk.) |
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