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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 inducted into mission bands, which contextualize the music of segregated urban and mining company dance halls in the 1930s, and he builds genealogies of the Chimurenga music later popularized by guerrilla artists like Dorothy Masuku, Zexie Manatsa, Thomas Mapfumo, and others in the 1970s.
Chikowero shows how Africans deployed their music and indigenous knowledge systems to fight for their freedom from British colonial domination and to assert their cultural sovereignty.
Rapper Tendai Nguni aka Tehn Diamond is on a mission to make 2017 the year of Zim Hip Hop with this move, taking his A Few Good Poems (AFGP) album on a tour of Zimbabwe.
King Dimple will be joined by Ammara Brown, Simba Tagz and Thaiwanda Thai on a tour of ten cities in the country and they promise a performance like never seen before
In a statement released to press, Tehn says, “Yes am promoting my album on the tour but more importantly, this is about getting Zimbabwean hip hop back to a place where it can compete on a continental scale. If we can have our own people supporting the genre, it makes it easier to export. It’s time we also saw Zim hip hop represented on Africa’s big stages like the MTV Base awards and the Hip Hop Awards so I am calling on all hip hop lovers in Zim to come to the show and support the movement because from here we are taking the show to the rest of Africa”
Vee Mukarati Launches his second album : Nyamavhuvhu Night Sounds at The Jam Tree!
Nyamavhuvhu Night Sounds : a nine track concept album composed and recorded by Vee Mukarati.
More details to follow….meanwhile, SAVE THE DATE!
Supported by: Unplugged Zimbabwe, Music Crossroads Academy and The Jam Tree
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