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Declaration ii
Abstract iii
Opsomming v
Acknowledgements vii
List of abbreviations and acronyms xii
Chapter One
Introduction to the study
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Background to the study 1
1.3 Literature review 4
1.4 The Nature and purpose of the study 11
1.4.1 Theoretical approach 11
1.4.2 Research questions 14
1.5 Research methodology 14
1.6 Organization of the study 17
Chapter Two
The typology of the Shona popular song-genre
2.1 Introduction 18
2.2 Classification of songs 19
2.2.1 Problems in Oral Literary
Classification of Songs 20
2.3 The appraisal framework 22
2.4 A Genre-based typology of the shona
popular songs 24
2.4.1 The genre theory 25
2.4.2 The multi-rhetoricality of popular songs 50
2.5 The intertextuality of the Shona popular song 51
2.5.1 Forms of intertextuality in Shona
popular songs 53
2.5.2 L+R format 54
2.5.3 Song revivals 56
2.5.4 Appropriation of other songs’ tunes 56
2.5.5 Dialogical level 57
2.5.6 Incorporative level 58
2.5.7 Monologism 61
2.5.8 Repetition 63
2.6 Conclusion 64
Chapter Three
The tripartite classification of Zimbabwean
popular songs into clusters
3.1 Introduction 65
3.2 The “small voices in history” and
“small stories” frameworks 66
3.2.1 Guha’s “small voices in history” framework 67
3.2.2 Georgakopoulou’s “small stories” theory 70
3.3 The “rediscovery of the ordinary” theory 72
3.4 Key features of state hegemony in Zimbabwe 73
3.5 A tripartite classification of popular songs
into clusters 81
3.5.1 Grand narrative songs 82
3.5.2 Small voices/stories songs 82
3.5.3 Songs of ordinary life 82
3.6 Factors shaping notions of grand and small
voices songs 83
3.6.1 Grand narrative song factors 84
3.6.2 Small voices song factors 93
3.7 Conclusion 97
Chapter Four
GNS and SSS’ contestations over meanings
of land and history
4.1 Introduction 98
4.2 The themes of land and history 99
4.3 The Chimurenga grand narrative as experiential
basis for land metaphors 100
4.4 Ivhu = vadzimu metaphor 103
4.4.1 National vadzimu as guardians for all 112
4.4.2 Land = Nhoroondo (History) metaphor 119
4.4.3 Land = Ropa remagamba (Blood of fallen heroes) 124
4.5 Conclusion 134
Chapter Five
Identity construction as evaluation of political
behavior in SSS and GNS
5.1 Introduction 135
5.2 Mapping identity construction onto the appraisal
theory 136
5.2.1 Attitude’s dimensions of judgement and
appreciation 136
5.2.2 Political and national identities 138
5.3 GNS songs and Zanu-PF identities of
self-construction 140
5.3.1 The identity of kurwira rusununguko 142
5.4 Countering Zanu-PF’S positive identities in SSS 156
5.4.1 The mudzvanyiriri identity 158
5.4.2 The vaurayi venyika (national destroyers)
identity 160
5.4.3 The identity of uori (corruption) 163
5.4.4 The identity of jambanja (violence and
lawlessness) 168
5.4.5 Zanu-PF and the kuguma (eschatology)
identity 175
5.5 Mutengesi identity as basis for opposition
persecution 177
5.5.1 The nationalist origins of the mutengesi
identity 177
5.5.2 State usage of mutengesi identity
in post-2000 179
5.6 SSS and MDC identities of self-construction 187
5.6.1 The opposition and the identity of bumbiro
remutemo (constitutionalism) 188
5.6.2 The rwendo rwechinja (journey of change)
identity 191
5.6.3 The MDC and the identity of economic
recovery 192
5.7 Conclusion 195
Chapter Six
The evaluation of ordinary life through social and
religious identities in sol
6.1 Introduction 196
6.2 Njabulo Ndebele’s the rediscovery of the
ordinary theory 196
6.3 Religious identities 201
6.3.1 The mufudzi/muchengeti (shepherd/keeper)
identity 204
6.3.2 Mutendi (believer) identity and
transcendentalist imagination 209
6.3.3 Mutadzi identity as quest for
individual liberation 224
6.3.4 The kuguma (escatology) identity as
dramatic representation 230
6.4 Social identities 240
6.4.1 The umai (motherhood) and ubaba
(fatherhood) identities 241
6.5 Conclusion 271
Chapter Seven
Conclusions and recommendations
7.1 Introduction 272
7.2 The relevance of the topic 272
7.3 The importance of a combinatorial
theoretical scheme 274
7.4 Land and history meanings as contestable 279
7.5 Identity construction as evaluation of
political behaviour 281
7.6 Social and religious identities and the
evaluation ordinary life 284
7.7 The larger significance of the study, gaps
and recommendations 287
References 289
Appendix 317
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