African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe

by Mhoze Chikowero

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025301803X
• ISBN13: 9780253018038
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher