African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe

Informationen zum Autor Mhoze Chikowero Klappentext Mhoze Chikowero is Associate Professor of African History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Mhoze Chikowero
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780253018038
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01803-8
• No. of pages: 364
• Series: African Expressive Cultures; African Expressive Cultures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries