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CONTENTS
Dedication iv
Acknowledgements v
Abstract viii
List of tables 13
Introduction 1
Chapter I
Back to the same: from great Zimbabwe to Zimbabwe ruins 17
Causes of the Zimbabwean crisis 20
The land question 20
Balancing act: Social justice and economic progress 25
ESAP 26
War veterans 27
The civic community 28
Land invasions: The third chimurenga 29
Rigged elections 31
Breakdown of the rule of law 32
Chapter II
Music, society and politics 36
Marxism and the arts 37
Music and social memory 41
Chimurenga music 43
Post-independence protest music 51
Post-independence chimurenga music 53
Music serving the state 57
Chapter III
Censorship in Zimbabwean music 61
Censorship legislation 66
Censorship and Entertainment Control Act, 1967 67
Blacklisting of music on radio and television 73
Harassment and intimidation of musicians 74
Self-censorship 77
Co-option of musicians and take-overs of recording companies 78
Recording industry censorship 80
Chapter IV
Towards a genealogy of urban grooves 82
From worldbeat to localbeat: Hip Hop to urban grooves 82
Defining urban grooves 94
Its grooving time: Urban youth culture takes center stage 96
The pre-urban grooves movement 100
Government intervention and the 75 percent local content policy 115
The Capital Radio saga 116
The B.S.A 116
“Urban Grooves Volume 1”: Urban grooves arrives 118
Issues in urban grooves 120
Chapter V
Infectious beats: State politicization of urban grooves 124
State sponsorship of urban grooves 131
Chapter VI
Deception, dissonance and subversion in urban grooves 146
Urban grooves or urban blues: Love, migration and the blues in the grooves 159
Laughter as medicine: Xtra large 171
Social dissonance as political protest: Maskiri 176
Disowning urban grooves 184
Toyi Toyi Hip Hop: Performance as activism 185
Conclusion
The sound of mourning 190
Endnotes 198
Bibliography 204