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The Zimdancehall revolution : critical perspectives
- Title
- The Zimdancehall revolution : critical perspectives / Tanaka Chidora, Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga, Ezra Chitando, editors.
- Publication
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2024]
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- Description
- xvii, 350 pages : illustrations (black and white); 22 cm
- Summary
- "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
- revolution, or a raw, petulant and raging disturbance of peace by those who live ghetto is telling and enables critics to look at it as a social movement, a 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." --
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references, discographies, and index.
- Call Number
- JMD 23-215
- ISBN
- 3031418530
- 9783031418532
- OCLC
- 1390441432
- Title
- The Zimdancehall revolution : critical perspectives / Tanaka Chidora, Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga, Ezra Chitando, editors.
- Publisher
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2024]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references, discographies, and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Added Author
- Chidora, Tanaka, editor.Tivenga, Doreen Rumbidzai, editor.Chitando, Ezra, editor.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9783031418549
- Research Call Number
- JMD 23-215