African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe
In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation. Chikowero''s book begins in the 1890s with missionary crusades against African performative cultures and African students being...
In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation. Chikowero''s book begins in the 1890s with missionary crusades against African performative cultures and African students being...
