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Lion Songs - Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe (Hardcover)
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Lion Songs - Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe (Hardcover)
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Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader
Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's
anticolonial struggle and cultural identity. Mapfumo was born in
1945 in what was then the British colony of Rhodesia (now
Zimbabwe). The trajectory of his career-from early performances of
rock 'n' roll tunes to later creating a new genre based on
traditional Zimbabwean music, including the sacred mbira, and
African and Western pop-is a metaphor for Zimbabwe's evolution from
colony to independent nation. Lion Songs is an authoritative
biography of Mapfumo that narrates the life and career of this
creative, complex, and iconic figure. Banning Eyre ties the arc of
Mapfumo's career to the history of Zimbabwe. The genre Mapfumo
created in the 1970s called chimurenga, or "struggle" music,
challenged the Rhodesian government-which banned his music and
jailed him-and became important to Zimbabwe achieving independence
in 1980. In the 1980s and 1990s Mapfumo's international profile
grew along with his opposition to Robert Mugabe's dictatorship.
Mugabe had been a hero of the revolution, but Mapfumo's criticism
of his regime led authorities and loyalists to turn on the singer
with threats and intimidation. Beginning in 2000, Mapfumo and key
band and family members left Zimbabwe. Many of them, including
Mapfumo, now reside in Eugene, Oregon. A labor of love, Lion Songs
is the product of a twenty-five-year friendship and professional
relationship between Eyre and Mapfumo that demonstrates Mapfumo's
musical and political importance to his nation, its freedom
struggle, and its culture.
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