African music, power, and being in colonial Zimbabwe / Mhoze Chikowero.
| Author/creator | Chikowero, Mhoze, 1972- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2015] |
| Description | xiii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | African expressive cultures Ethnomusicology multimedia African expressive cultures. ^A560153 Ethnomusicology multimedia. ^A1121749 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-326), discography (pages 311-326) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015017453 |
| ISBN | 9780253017680 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780253018038 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |