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- Book Title
- African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe (African Exp
- ISBN
- 9780253018038
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-10
025301803X
ISBN-13
9780253018038
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27038251740
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
364 Pages
Publication Name
African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe
Language
English
Subject
Christian Ministry / Missions, History & Criticism, Ethnomusicology, Africa / South / General, Sociology / General, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music, Religion, Social Science, History
Series
African Expressive Cultures Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
18.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2015-017453
Reviews
"African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe will benefit ethnomusicologists as well as multimedia experts and general readers. Chikowero makes a tremendous contribution to African music in general and, indeed, ethnomusicology in particular." --Africa Today, "Reveals the power of colonialism to infiltrate African culture and manifests how Africans were socially engineered to be complicit in the colonial project." --Maurice Taonezvi Vambe, University of South Africa, "Chikowero interrogates the political economy of performance in Zimbabwe with a mastery of detail that is yet to be matched." --The Zimbabwe Herald, "Reveals the power of colonialism to infiltrate African culture and manifests how Africans were socially engineered to be complicit in the colonial project." -Maurice Taonezvi Vambe, University of South Africa, "Whereas previous generations of scholars have argued how Africans adapted and revived musical traditions to resist colonialism in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chiowero takes a longer view to demonstrate just how complicated and varying music history across Africa is during this era." --Tyler Fleming, University of Louisville, "Chikowero has written a fantastic book worthy of wide and careful attention for years to come."-- Journal of African History "This book makes a valuable contribution to colonial and mission history, musicology, and performance studies, offering a fresh lens on the creative labor and insurgent cultural practices of Zimbabweans under colonialism."-- International Journal of African Historical Studies "[P]rovides a fascinating new way to think about liberation. Chikowero helps us understand revolution beyond the gun as he moves from the conquest in the 1890s through music of the missions, mining company dancehalls, townships, the armed struggle campsites and more to chart a social history of how black people continually made and remade themselves through music, dress, drink, spirituality and politics."-- The Guardian "Chikowero interrogates the political economy of performance in Zimbabwe with a mastery of detail that is yet to be matched.9/12/16"-- The Zimbabwe Herald "African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe will benefit ethnomusicologists as well as multimedia experts and general readers. Chikowero makes a tremendous contribution to African music in general and, indeed, ethnomusicology in particular."-- Africa Today "Overall,the book encourages a stimulating rethinking of the role of music in colonial societies. It is therefore recommended for readers with a broad interest in African history."-- American Historical Review "Whereas previous generations of scholars have argued how Africans adapted and revived musical traditions to resist colonialism in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chiowero takes a longer view to demonstrate just how complicated and varying music history across Africa is during this era."--Tyler Fleming, University of Louisville "A worthy contribution to African history, ethnomusicology, music, and dance married together with the powerful institutions of African colonialism and missionary work."--Tendai Muparutsa, Williams College "Reveals the power of colonialism to infiltrate African culture and manifests how Africans were socially engineered to be complicit in the colonial project."--Maurice Taonezvi Vambe, University of South Africa, "A worthy contribution to African history, ethnomusicology, music, and dance married together with the powerful institutions of African colonialism and missionary work." --Tendai Muparutsa, Williams College
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
780.96891
Table Of Content
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 Bibliography Index
Synopsis
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., 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.
LC Classification Number
ML3917.Z55C55 2015
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