Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe

About the author

Thomas Turino is a professor of musicology and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of "Moving Away from Silence," also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Summary

This work focuses on the development of a unique style of music - combining the electric guitar with indigenous Shona music - that emerged in Zimbabwe during the 1980s. Turino examines this emergence of cosmopolitan culture among the black middle classes, and how it influenced politics.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Turino, Turino Thomas
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2000
• EAN: 9780226817026
• ISBN: 978-0-226-81702-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 624 g
• Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusico; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE (CHUP); Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MUSIC / Ethnic, Zimbabwe, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, World Music, Political ideologies and movements, Other global and regional music styles