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The Zimdancehall Revolution - Critical Perspectives (1st ed. 2024)
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The Zimdancehall Revolution - Critical Perspectives (1st ed. 2024)
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Zimdancehall is a musical movement in Zimbabwe that has grown
significantly since 2010.Ā TheĀ Zimdancehall
RevolutionĀ brings together critical essays on various aspects
of Zimdancehall culture by scholars from diverse disciplines.
Traditionally, music critics and senior academics have not taken
Zimdancehall seriously, regarding it as vulgar, transient, bubble
gum, lacking depth, and in short, a fad. There were also
allegations that the lyrics influenced factionalism, incited
violence and glorified drug use and unbridled promiscuity among the
youth. This book affords this movement the protracted intellectual
engagement that it deserves and argues thatĀ Zimdancehall is
more than just a musical genre but an everyday culture, a way of
life. The genreās close association with the ghetto is telling
and enables critics to look at it as a social movement, a
revolution, or a raw, petulant and raging disturbance of peace by
those who live their lives on the margins. It is, thus, a violent
irruption onto the public space by marginalised young people whose
presence as artistes creating art from the margins, simultaneously
as victims and agents, circulating in a geography that escapes the
limits of nationalist ideological and physical territory, in a way
subverts communitarian prescriptions and allows young people entry
into the world, albeit in a painful, tumultuous and violent way.
The essays range from the mapping of the genreās historical
development to theoretical interventions in understanding the genre
and its relationship with various aspects of the Zimbabwean society
like politics, gender, religion, language, dance, cultural values
and other genres.
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