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Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe (Chicago Studies in
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Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition

by Turino, Thomas

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  • Title Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
  • Author Turino, Thomas
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used: Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
  • Date 2000-12-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0226817024
  • 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

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From the rear cover

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.

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.