Sounds of Life Music, Identity and Politics in Zimbabwe

Music narrates personal, communal and national experiences. It is a rich repository of a people's deepest fears, hopes, and achievements, especially as it communicates spirituality, economic, and political realities. This volume examines the multiple roles of music in Zimbabwe, showing how Zimb...

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Main Authors Mangena, Fainos, Chitando, Ezra, Muwati, Itai
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Newcastle-upon-Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2016
Edition1
Subjects
Music
Politics and government
Zimbabwe
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Summary:Music narrates personal, communal and national experiences. It is a rich repository of a people's deepest fears, hopes, and achievements, especially as it communicates spirituality, economic, and political realities. This volume examines the multiple roles of music in Zimbabwe, showing how Zimbabwean music has addressed the socio-economic, political and spiritual crisis that the country has endured in the last one and a half decades. While concentrating on the tumultuous 2000-2013 period, the themes that are addressed here are enduring. Thus, the book explores the interplay between music and gender, music and politics, and music and identity construction in Zimbabwe, and it interacts with most of the dominant genres in Zimbabwean music, including Sungura, ZORA, Chimurenga, Gospel and the Urban Grooves. This volume will interest specialists in the study of ethnomusicology, in addition to scholars of literature, religious studies, philosophy, theatre arts, political science, and history.
ISBN:9781443886772
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