Performing Zimbabwe

Author : Susanne Verheul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316515869
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Performing Power in Zimbabwe written by Susanne Verheul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges depictions of law as a façade for political repression by examining political trials in Zimbabwe after 2000.

Author : Nkululeko Sibanda
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527594483
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Performance Trends in Postliberation Zimbabwe written by Nkululeko Sibanda and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays documents, conceptualises and theorises the ways in which Zimbabwean, in particular, and African practitioners, in general, creatively work and perform in contemporary Africa. It serves to consolidate the ways in which Zimbabwean and African performance is made and understood by Zimbabwean practitioners and theorists. The book examines this emergent, dynamic performance movement which transforms performances into acts of reflection, engagement, and/or discussion between the performer and spectator through various creative performative avenues, such as interjections, call and response, singing, clapping and use of communally identifiable everyday objects in design, which affirm and fuse the actors and spectators together. Finally, this book exposes the dominant exclusivity and Anglocentrism in critical pedagogies of performance in Zimbabwe through problematizing the “taken-for-grantedness” of the accepted ways in which performance and theory have been conceptualised.

Author : Samuel Ravengai
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030745945
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Theatre from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe written by Samuel Ravengai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voices that are represented in this collection come from various parts of the world and express the views of practitioners and scholars who have all had first-hand experience working in Zimbabwean theatre from the last days of Rhodesia to Zimbabwe. The collection views the long continuum of developments in local theatre history as a case of the intrusive hegemonies that came with colonial Rhodesia as a conquest society, and localised identities in the form of the persistence of indigenous and syncretic popular forms. With time, all these came together to constitute the makings of a contested post-colony in contemporary theatre practice in Zimbabwe. The primary interest of scholars who are represented here is located at the intersection of political, cultural and performative discourses and the flow of Zimbabwean history. The focus, moreover, is not only on the history of performance cultures in postcolonial Zimbabwe - it extends its critical gaze to include the history of political ideas that gave rise to cultural contestation in the field of theatre and performance.

Author : Luis Gimenez Amoros
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429012578
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe written by Luis Gimenez Amoros and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe analyses the revitalisation and repatriation of historical recordings from the largest sound archive in Africa, the International Library of African Music (ILAM). It provides a postcolonial study on the African sound archive divided into three historical periods: the colonial period offers a critical analysis on how ILAM classifies its music through ethnic and linguistic groups; the postcolonial period reconsiders postcolonial nationhood, new/old mobility and cultural border crossing in present Africa; and the recent period of repatriation focuses on the author’s revitalisation of the sound archive. The main goal of this study is to reconsider the colonial demarcations of southern African mbira music provided by the International Library of African Music (ILAM). These mbira recordings reveal that the harmonic system used in different lamellophones (or mbiras) in southern Africa is musically related. The analysis of sound archives in Africa is an essential tool to envision the new ways in which African culture can be directed not only from postcolonial notions of nationhood or Afrocentric discourses but also for the necessity of bringing awareness of the circulation of musical cultures from and beyond colonial African borders.

Author : David Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317983092
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book 'Progress' in Zimbabwe? written by David Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbabwe's severe crisis - and a possible way out of it with a transitional government, and the new era for which it prepares the ground - demands a coherent scholarly response. 'Progress' can be employed as an organising theme across many disciplinary approaches to Zimbabwe's societal devastation. At wider levels too, the concept of progress is fitting. It underpins 'modern', 'liberal' and 'radical' perspectives of development pervading the social sciences and humanities. Yet perceptions of 'progress' are subject increasingly to intensive critical inquiry. Their gruesome end is signified in the political projects of Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF. John Gray's Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia indicates this. It is expected that participants will engage directly in debates about how the idea of 'progress' has informed their disciplines - from political science and history to labour and agrarian studies, and then relate these arguments to the Zimbabwean case in general and their research in particular. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.

Author : Elizabeth Mamukwa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317115503
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Integral Green Zimbabwe written by Elizabeth Mamukwa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integral Green Zimbabwe: An African Phoenix Rising by Ronnie Lessem, Alexander Schieffer and Liz Mamukwa is the first book in the Integral Green Society and Economy series, a series which has three overarching aims. The first aim is to link together two major movements of our time, one philosophical, the other practical. The philosophical movement is towards what many today are calling an 'integral' age, while the practical is the 'green' movement, duly aligned with that of sustainable development. The second is to blend together elements of nature and community, culture and spirituality, science and technology, politics and economics, thus serving to bring about an 'integral green' vision, albeit with a focus on business and economics. As such, the authors transcend the limitations to sustainable development and environmental economics, which are overly ecological, if not also technological, in orientation, and exclude social and cultural elements. Thirdly, this particular volume focuses specifically on Zimbabwe, as well as Southern Africa, drawing on the particular issues and capacities that this country and region represents. The emphasis on Zimbabwe and Southern Africa transpired not only because two of the editors (Lessem and Mamukwa) are Zimbabwean in origin, but because Zimbabwe is today like a phoenix rising from the ashes, and has the opportunity to recreate itself anew.

Author : Susanne Verheul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781009011792
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Performing Power in Zimbabwe written by Susanne Verheul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on political trials in Zimbabwe's Magistrates' Courts between 2000 and 2012, Susanne Verheul explores why the judiciary have remained a central site of contestation in post-independence Zimbabwe. Drawing on rich court observations and in-depth interviews, this book foregrounds law's potential to reproduce or transform social and political power through the narrative, material, and sensory dimensions of courtroom performances. Instead of viewing appeals to law as acts of resistance by marginalised orders for inclusion in dominant modes of rule, Susanne Verheul argues that it was not recognition by but of this formal, rule-bound ordering, and the form of citizenship it stood for, that was at stake in performative legal engagements. In this manner, law was much more than a mere instrument. Law was a site in which competing conceptions of political authority were given expression, and in which people's understandings of themselves as citizens were formed and performed.

Author : Thomas Turino
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226816966
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe written by Thomas Turino and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-06-20 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a national hero and musical revolutionary, Thomas Mapfumo, along with other Zimbabwean artists, burst onto the music scene in the 1980s with a unique style that combined electric guitar with indigenous Shona music and instruments. The development of this music from its roots in the early Rhodesian era to the present and the ways this and other styles articulated with Zimbabwean nationalism is the focus of Thomas Turino's new study. Turino examines the emergence of cosmopolitan culture among the black middle class and how this gave rise to a variety of urban-popular styles modeled on influences ranging from the Mills Brothers to Elvis. He also shows how cosmopolitanism gave rise to the nationalist movement itself, explaining the combination of "foreign" and indigenous elements that so often define nationalist art and cultural projects. The first book-length look at the role of music in African nationalism, Turino's work delves deeper than most books about popular music and challenges the reader to think about the lives and struggles of the people behind the surface appeal of world music.

Author : Mhoze Chikowero
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253018099
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe written by Mhoze Chikowero and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation. Chikowero's book begins in the 1890s with missionary crusades against African performative cultures and African students being inducted into mission bands, which contextualize the music of segregated urban and mining company dance halls in the 1930s, and he builds genealogies of the Chimurenga music later popularized by guerrilla artists like Dorothy Masuku, Zexie Manatsa, Thomas Mapfumo, and others in the 1970s. Chikowero shows how Africans deployed their music and indigenous knowledge systems to fight for their freedom from British colonial domination and to assert their cultural sovereignty.

Author : Martin Rohmer
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Theatre and Performance in Zimbabwe written by Martin Rohmer and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: