African music, power, and being in colonial Zimbabwe / / Mhoze Chikowero

• Autore: Chikowero Mhoze <1972->
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington ; ; Indianapolis : , : Indiana University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (364 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 780.96891
• Soggetto topico: Popular music - Social aspects - Zimbabwe - History - 20th century; Popular music - Political aspects - Zimbabwe - History - 20th century; Missions - Zimbabwe
• Soggetto geografico: Zimbabwe Social conditions 20th century; Zimbabwe Colonial influence
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: African music, power, and being in colonial Zimbabwe
• ISBN: 0-253-01809-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460791103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: African expressive cultures.; Ethnomusicology multimedia.