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Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe
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Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition

by Thomas Turino


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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 articulated 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 modeled 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.

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Hailed as a national hero and musical revolutionary, Thomas Mapfumo, along with other Zimbabwean artists, burst onto the international 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 articulated 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 modeled 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.

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  • Title Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe
  • Author Thomas Turino
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
  • Date 2000-12-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780226817026 / 0226817024
  • Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 6.04 x 0.9 in (23.06 x 15.34 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
  • Library of Congress subjects Popular music - Zimbabwe - History and, Music - Social aspects - Zimbabwe
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00008067
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.630

About the author

Thomas Turino is a professor of musicology and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Moving Away from Silence, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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