African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe.
Chikowero, Mhoze.
African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (364 pages) - African Expressive Cultures Series . - African Expressive Cultures Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cross-Cultural Encounters: Song, Power, and Being -- 1 Missionary Witchcrafting African Being: Cultural Disarmament -- 2 Purging the "Heathen" Song, Mis/Grafting the Missionary Hymn -- 3 "Too Many Don'ts": Reinforcing, Disrupting the Criminalization of African Musical Cultures -- 4 Architectures of Control: African Urban Re/Creation -- 5 The "Tribal Dance" as a Colonial Alibi: Ethnomusicology and the Tribalization of African Being -- 6 Chimanjemanje: Performing and Contesting Colonial Modernity -- 7 The Many Moods of "Skokiaan": Criminalized Leisure, Underclass Defiance, and Self-Narration -- 8 Usable Pasts: Crafting Madzimbabwe through Memory, Tradition, Song -- 9 Cultures of Resistance: Genealogies of Chimurenga Song -- 10 Jane Lungile Ngwenya: A Transgenerational Conversation -- Epilogue: Postcolonial Legacies: Song, Power, and Knowledge Production -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography and Discography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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.
9780253018090
Zimbabwe - Social conditions - 20th century.
Electronic books.
ML3917.Z55C55 2015
780.96891
African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (364 pages) - African Expressive Cultures Series . - African Expressive Cultures Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cross-Cultural Encounters: Song, Power, and Being -- 1 Missionary Witchcrafting African Being: Cultural Disarmament -- 2 Purging the "Heathen" Song, Mis/Grafting the Missionary Hymn -- 3 "Too Many Don'ts": Reinforcing, Disrupting the Criminalization of African Musical Cultures -- 4 Architectures of Control: African Urban Re/Creation -- 5 The "Tribal Dance" as a Colonial Alibi: Ethnomusicology and the Tribalization of African Being -- 6 Chimanjemanje: Performing and Contesting Colonial Modernity -- 7 The Many Moods of "Skokiaan": Criminalized Leisure, Underclass Defiance, and Self-Narration -- 8 Usable Pasts: Crafting Madzimbabwe through Memory, Tradition, Song -- 9 Cultures of Resistance: Genealogies of Chimurenga Song -- 10 Jane Lungile Ngwenya: A Transgenerational Conversation -- Epilogue: Postcolonial Legacies: Song, Power, and Knowledge Production -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography and Discography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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.
9780253018090
Zimbabwe - Social conditions - 20th century.
Electronic books.
ML3917.Z55C55 2015
780.96891