Nationalists, cosmopolitans, and popular music in Zimbabwe

Part One: Critical Foundations. Social Identities and Indigenous Musical Practices

Part Two: Colonialism and the Rise of Urban Popular Music. Indigenous Music and Dance in Mbare Township, 1930-1960

The Settler-State and Indigenous Music during the Federation Years

The African Middle Class: Concerts, Cultural Discourse, and All That Jazz

Part Three: Musical Nationalism. Music, Emotion, and Cultural Nationalism, 1958-1963

Musical Nationalism and Chimurenga Songs of the 1970s

Part Four: Guitar Bands and Cosmopolitan Youth Culture. On the Margins of Nationalism: Acoustic Guitarists and Guitar Bands of the 1960s

Stars of the Seventies: The Rise of Indigenous-Based Guitar Bands

Part Five: Globalization Begins at Home. Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Popular Music after 1980.

Acknowledgments

Part One: Critical Foundations

Introduction

1. Social Identities and Indigenous Musical Practices

Part Two: Colonialism and the Rise of Urban Popular Music

2. Indigenous Music and Dance in Mbare Township, 1930-1960

3. The Settler-State and Indigenous Music during the Federation Years

4. The African Middle Class: Concerts, Cultural Discourse, and All That Jazz

Part Three: Musical Nationalism

5. Music, Emotion, and Cultural Nationalism, 1958-1963

6. Musical Nationalism and Chimurenga Songs of the 1970s.

Part Four: Guitar Bands and Cosmopolitan Youth Culture

7. On the Margins of Nationalism: Acoustic Guitarists and Guitar Bands of the 1960s

8. Stars of the Seventies: The Rise of Indigenous-Based Guitar Bands

Part Five: Globalization Begins at Home

9. Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Popular Music after 1980

Notes

References and Bibliography

Discography

Index

A gallery of photographs.