The Zimdancehall Revolution

Author : Tanaka Chidora
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031418549
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Zimdancehall Revolution written by Tanaka Chidora and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimdancehall is a musical movement in Zimbabwe that has grown significantly since 2010. The Zimdancehall Revolution brings together critical essays on various aspects of Zimdancehall culture by scholars from diverse disciplines. Traditionally, music critics and senior academics have not taken Zimdancehall seriously, regarding it as vulgar, transient, bubble gum, lacking depth, and in short, a fad. There were also allegations that the lyrics influenced factionalism, incited violence and glorified drug use and unbridled promiscuity among the youth. This book affords this movement the protracted intellectual engagement that it deserves and argues that Zimdancehall is more than just a musical genre but an everyday culture, a way of life. The genre’s close association with the ghetto is telling and enables critics to look at it as a social movement, a revolution, or a raw, petulant and raging disturbance of peace by those who live their lives on the margins. It is, thus, a violent irruption onto the public space by marginalised young people whose presence as artistes creating art from the margins, simultaneously as victims and agents, circulating in a geography that escapes the limits of nationalist ideological and physical territory, in a way subverts communitarian prescriptions and allows young people entry into the world, albeit in a painful, tumultuous and violent way. The essays range from the mapping of the genre’s historical development to theoretical interventions in understanding the genre and its relationship with various aspects of the Zimbabwean society like politics, gender, religion, language, dance, cultural values and other genres.

Author : Zvikomborero Kapuya
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1779255705
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not Yet Post-Colonial written by Zvikomborero Kapuya and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epistemic deficiency of contending issue in post-imperial Africa, Zimbabwe in particular influence the author to take readers on the interesting journey of joining the reflections of ghetto life into concept and culture. Ghetto renaissance responding to ghetto condition proved itself to the future, Cultural Revolution confronting Afro-fascist nationalist regimes and the complex global coloniality. Though some challenges, such as identity crisis, self-hate and criminal activities, ghetto cosmology left no stone unturned in making the post-colonial Zimbabwe a practical political project in the prism of decoloniality.

Author : James Garratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107032415
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Politics written by James Garratt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changes our picture of how music and politics interact through a rigorous and wide-ranging reappraisal of the field.

Author : Tendai Mangena
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443899232
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial Condition of Names and Naming Practices in Southern Africa written by Tendai Mangena and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Postcolonial Condition of Names and Naming Practices in Southern Africa represents a milestone in southern African onomastic studies. The contributors here are all members of, and speakers of, the cultures and languages they write about, and, together, they speak with an authentic African voice on naming issues in the southern part of the African continent. The volume’s overarching thesis is that names are important yet often underestimated socio-politico-cultural sites on which some of the most significant events and processes in the post-colony can be read. The onomastic topics covered in the book range from the names of traditional healers and male aphrodisiacs to urban landscapes and street naming, from the interface between Chinese and African naming practices to the names of bands of musicians and mini-bus taxis. There is a strong section on literary onomastics which explores how names have been variously deployed by southern African fiction writers for certain semantic, aesthetic and ideological effects. The cultures and languages covered in this volume are equally wide-ranging, and, while some authors focus on single languages and cultures (for example Thembu, Xhosa, Shona), others look at inter-cultural influences such as the influence of the Portuguese and Chinese languages on Shona naming. Written by Professor Adrian Koopman Emeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Author : Sharifah Faizah Syed Mohammed
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9813369507
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Nationalism in Indonesia written by Sharifah Faizah Syed Mohammed and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the growth of the Indonesian nationalistic musical genre of lagu seriosa in relation to the archipelago's history in the 1950s and 1960s, examining how folk songs were implemented as a valuable tool for promoting government propaganda. The author reveals how the genre was shaped to fit state ideologies and agendas in the Sukarno and Soeharto eras. It also reveals the very significant role played by Radio Republik Indonesia in the genre’s development and dissemination. Little research has been done to investigate how Indonesian music contributed to nation-building during Indonesia’s immediate post-colonial period. Emulating the European art song, the genre was adapted to compose songs with the purpose of promoting a strengthened collective Indonesian identity, fostered by a group of musicians who functioned as gatekeepers, monitoring and devising various mechanisms for songs to conform to the propagandistic needs of the Indonesian government at the time. The result was the development of classical style of singing and the cultivation of a patriotic collection of music during the Guided Democracy period (1959–1965), which peaked at the height of the Konfrontasi (1963–1966). Lagu seriosa lost popularity as popular music infiltrated Indonesia in the 1970s, but it remains an iconic yet understudied aspect of the nationalistic agenda in Indonesia. The case studies of selected songs reflected continuity and change in musical style and over time. This book is of interest to scholars studying the intersection between history, politics, identity, arts and cultural studies in Indonesia. It is also of interest to researchers investigating the role of music in identity formation and nation-building more widely.

Author : Adeoye Akinola
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031510194
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Resurgence of Military Coups and Democratic Relapse in Africa written by Adeoye Akinola and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lynn Frederiksen
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 1492572322
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance Cultures Around the World written by Lynn Frederiksen and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Textbook for undergrad general education and dance courses on the topic of dance around the world. It serves as a gateway into studying world cultures through dance"--

Author : Tanaka Chidora
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1779296185
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Because Sadness is Beautiful? written by Tanaka Chidora and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tanaka Chidora writes with the nerve and verve of firework displays in these poems. There is a peace armed to the teeth here, and over there words are just fugitives scuttling away from the recognition of the reader. Through this burst of iron vocabulary discipline, the poet suggests that even if sadness could be all we are left with, we still need to give sadness a try until it becomes beautiful, because sadness has always been beautiful, anyway." - Memory Chirere, University of Zimbabwe

Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956763012
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Philosophy and Thought Systems written by Mawere, Munyaradzi and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The once acrimonious debate on the existence of African philosophy has come of age, yet the need to cultivate a culture of belonging is more demanding now than ever before in many African societies. The gargantuan indelible energised chicanery waves of neo-colonialism and globalisation and their sweeping effect on Africa demand more concerted action and solutions than cul-de-sac discourses and magical realism. It is in view of this realisation that this book was born. This is a vital text for understanding contextual historical trends in the development of African philosophic ideas on the continent and how Africans could possibly navigate the turbulent catadromous waters, tangled webs and chasms of destruction, and chagrin of struggles that have engrossed Africa since the dawn of slavery and colonial projects on the continent. The book aims to generate more insights and influence national, continental, and global debates in the field of philosophy. It is accessible and handy to a wider range of readers, ranging from educators and students of African philosophy, anthropology, African studies, cultural studies, and all those concerned with the further development of African philosophy and thought systems on the African continent.

Author : Tejumola Olaniyan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253217189
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arrest the Music! written by Tejumola Olaniyan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold and energetic close-up on one of Africa's most popular and controversial stars.