The Zimdancehall Revolution

Author : Tanaka Chidora,Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga,Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783031418549

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The Zimdancehall Revolution by Tanaka Chidora,Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga,Ezra Chitando Pdf

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
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781779255709

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Not Yet Post-Colonial by Zvikomborero Kapuya Pdf

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 : Tendai Mangena,Oliver Nyambi,Charles Pfukwa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443899239

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The Postcolonial Condition of Names and Naming Practices in Southern Africa by Tendai Mangena,Oliver Nyambi,Charles Pfukwa Pdf

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 : James Garratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107032415

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Music and Politics by James Garratt Pdf

Changes our picture of how music and politics interact through a rigorous and wide-ranging reappraisal of the field.

Author : Adeoye Akinola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031510199

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The Resurgence of Military Coups and Democratic Relapse in Africa by Adeoye Akinola Pdf

Author : Lynn Frederiksen,Shih-Ming Li Chang
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : Dance
ISBN : 9781492572329

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Dance Cultures Around the World by Lynn Frederiksen,Shih-Ming Li Chang Pdf

"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 : Mawere, Munyaradzi,Mubaya, Tapuwa R.
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789956763016

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African Philosophy and Thought Systems by Mawere, Munyaradzi,Mubaya, Tapuwa R. Pdf

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 : Tanaka Chidora
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781779296184

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Because Sadness is Beautiful? by Tanaka Chidora Pdf

"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 : Shimmer Chinodya
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781779223289

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Harvest of Thorns by Shimmer Chinodya Pdf

The 1990 Commonwealth Writers Regional Prize voted Harvest of Thorns the winner in the Best Book category. Harvest of Thorns tells the story of Benjamin Tichafa who grows up in Rhodesia in the 1960s. From a conservative, religious family, but exposed to the heady ideas of the black nationalist movements, the young student is pulled in different directions. Isolated and troubled at boarding school, he is provoked into leaving, making his way to Mozambique, and joining the freedom fighters. There, in the crucible of a bitter civil war of liberation, the young man develops into manhood. Returning, hardened, at independence, he feels that little has changed, not least within his own family circumstances, and asks himself what it means to be free in the new Zimbabwe.

Author : Tejumola Olaniyan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253217180

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Arrest the Music! by Tejumola Olaniyan Pdf

A bold and energetic close-up on one of Africa's most popular and controversial stars.

Author : Setha Low
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317369639

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Spatializing Culture by Setha Low Pdf

This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize. In developing the concept of spatializing culture, Setha Low draws on over twenty years of research to examine social production, social construction, embodied, discursive, emotive and affective, as well as translocal approaches. A global range of fieldwork examples are employed throughout the text to highlight not just the theoretical development of the idea of spatializing culture, but how it can be used in undertaking ethnographies of space and place. The volume will be valuable for students and scholars from a number of disciplines who are interested in the study of culture through the lens of space and place.

Author : Ezra Chitando,Masiiwa Ragies Gunda,Joachim Kügler
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9783863092542

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Multiplying in the Spirit by Ezra Chitando,Masiiwa Ragies Gunda,Joachim Kügler Pdf

Author : Marshall Soules
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748644179

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Media, Persuasion and Propaganda by Marshall Soules Pdf

Using case studies and exercises, this innovative study guides the reader through the many varieties of persuasion and its performance, exploring the protocols of rhetoric unique to the medium, from orality and print to film and digital images.

Author : Tony Perman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252052132

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Signs of the Spirit by Tony Perman Pdf

In 2005, Tony Perman attended a ceremony alongside the living and the dead. His visit to a Zimbabwe farm brought him into contact with the madhlozi, outsider spirits that Ndau people rely upon for guidance, protection, and their collective prosperity. Perman's encounters with the spirits, the mediums who bring them back, and the accompanying rituals form the heart of his ethnographic account of how the Ndau experience ceremonial musicking. As Perman witnessed other ceremonies, he discovered that music and dancing shape the emotional lives of Ndau individuals by inviting them to experience life's milestones or cope with its misfortunes as a group. Signs of the Spirit explores the historical, spiritual, and social roots of ceremonial action and details how that action influences the Ndau's collective approach to their future. The result is a vivid ethnomusicological journey that delves into the immediacy of musical experience and the forces that transform ceremonial performance into emotions and community.

Author : Shingi Mavima
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0999886320

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Pashena by Shingi Mavima Pdf

Pashena--literally "the dirt field"--is the coming-of-age tale of a group of neighborhood friends growing in the low-income township of Dangamvura, Mutare (Zimbabwe). The story spans five years in the mid to late 1990s, a period during which most of the boys go from seven and eight to the precipice of their teen years. Shingi has recently started school and is getting to meet the array of characters that are his neighborhood peers. Among them are Ta--his stuttering, reserved, and loyal next door neighbor, Strive and Wellington--hilarious and crass orphans from across the street who had grown up in the rural areas and were now being raised by their teenage sister, and Fungai and Tiberius--tennis-playing brothers who vacillate between yearning for belonging and bully tendencies. The group is, however, always in flux with cousins, classmates, tenants, and new neighbors coming and going. While the friends are initially drawn together by the happenstance of neighborhood and a shared passion for soccer, they find themselves privy--from the vantage point of their beloved dirt soccer field, Pashena--to a community forever transformed by the insatiable AIDS scourge, an ominously dilapidating economy, and the irreparable loss of communal innocence. Through it all, Pashena serves as an agent in which the boys learn to negotiate their love of self, each other, and community all while living in a world of which even their elders could ill make full sense.