Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe

Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe( )
Author: Turino, Thomas
Series title:Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Ser.
ISBN:978-0-226-81701-9
Publication Date:Dec 2000
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $99.00
Book Description:

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 examines the emergence of...
More Description

Book Details
Pages:352
Detailed Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Music / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0.612 x 0.913 x 0.109 Inches
Book Weight:1.399 Pounds



Featured Books

My Passion for Design
Streisand, Barbra
Hardback: $80.00
Legacy
Blackstock, Uché
Hardback: $28.00
The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Digital online: $4.99

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.