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Title: NATIONALISTS, COSMOPOLITANS AND POPULAR MUSIC IN ZIMBABWE
By: Thomas Turino
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0226817016
ISBN 13: 9780226817019
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Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Pub. date: 17 October, 2000
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Pages: 352
Description: This work focuses on the development of a unique style of music - combining the electric guitar with indigenous Shona music - that emerged in Zimbabwe during the 1980s. Turino examines this emergence of cosmopolitan culture among the black middle classes, and how it influenced politics.
Synopsis: 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 ariculated 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 modelled 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.
Illustrations: 13 halftones, 2 musical examples
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Returns: Returnable
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