mangena-chitando&muwait2016
Mangena, Fainos, Ezra Chitando & Itai Muwait (eds.): |
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements x
Introduction
Fainos Mangena, Ezra Chitando & Itai Muwati
Navigating the Interstices of Music, Identity and
Politics in Zimbabwe xi
Part I: Music and Gender
Chapter One
Ezra Chitando
Zvakaoma Kuva Munhu WeMurume (It is tough to be a Man):
Selected Zimbabwean Musicians on the Burdens of Masculinity 2
Chapter Two
Charity Manyeruke
Opportunities and Challenges of Female Musicians in Zimbabwe 19
Chapter Three
Tapiwa Praise Mapuranga
Gospel Music in Zimbabwe: Selected Women’s Voices 34
Chapter Four
Anna Chitando
Towards Loving Gender Relations:
Oliver Mtukudzi’s Wagona Fani 50
Chapter Five
Fred Zindi
Zimbabwean Women in Music: A Catalogue 66
Chapter Six
Fainos Mangena
‘John Rawls in Zimbabwe’:
A Reflection on Leonard Zhakata’s Call for Distributive Justice 80
[Part II: Music and Politics]
Chapter Seven
Ngonidzashe Muwonwa
“Threatened Nation, Unfinished Nation”:
Discourses of Nation in Contemporary Zimbabwean Music 98
Chapter Eight
Godfrey Museka, Darmarris Kaguda and Onias Matumbu
Sounds of “Death”: The Adaptation of Madzviti-Muchongoyo Music in Silencing Dissenting Voices in Chipinge (Manicaland-Zimbabwe, 2002-2008) 114
Chapter Nine
Kudakwashe Shane Sambo, Nehemiah Chivandikwa and Kelvin Chikonzo
“When Propaganda Boomerangs”:
The Case of Third Chimurenga Music Visuals 127
Chapter Ten
Oswell Hapanyengwi-Chemhuru
Music as a Contested Terrain in the Dynamics of Politics in Zimbabwe145
Chapter Eleven
Samuel Ravengai
Chimurenga Liberation Songs and Dances as Sites of Struggle to Counter Rhodesian Discourse: A Postcolonial Perspective 165
Chapter Twelve
Kelvin Chikonzo, Joel Nyimai and Kudakwashe Shane Sambo
‘Violations’ of The Chimurenga Genre in the Music of the Mbare Chimurenga Choir 182
Part III: Gospel Music, the Urban Grooves and Politics
Chapter Thirteen
Pedzisai Mashiri and Zvinashe Mamvura
“You shall know them by their names”:
A Sociolinguistic Approach to Gospel Music Groups’ Nomenclature in the Shona Society of Zimbabwe 196
Chapter Fourteen
Bridget Chinouriri
The Politicisation of Gospel Music in Zimbabwe’s Crisis Years, 2000-2010 213
Chapter Fifteen
Francis Machingura
The Urban Grooves as a Music Genre for Zimbabwean Youths:
An Analysis 232
Part IV: Music and Identity
Chapter Sixteen
Zifikile Gambahaya and Itai Muwati
Voices from Below: Ethnicity and Marginality in Lovemore Majaivana’s Album, “Isono Sami” 248
Chapter Seventeen
Fainos Mangena
Music, Hunhu/Ubuntu and Identity in Zimbabwe:
Unpacking Leonard Zhakata and Oliver Mtukudzi’s Messages 264
Chapter Eighteen
Lickel Ndebele and Progress Dube
Music and Ethnicity in “a Primitive Society”:
A Case Study of Ndebele Wedding Songs 279
Contributors 288