Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe

by Thomas Turino

Book Overview

Hailed as a national hero and musical revolutionary, Thomas Mapfumo, along with other Zimbabwean artists, burst onto the 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226817024
• ISBN13: 9780226817026
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"