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Music has played a significant role in the history of Zimbabwe, from a vital role in the traditional Bira ceremony used to call on ancestral spirits, to protest songs during the struggle for independence. [2]
20 sty 2015 · Zimbabwe has two prestigious traditional music and dance festivals, the Jikinya dance festival and the Chibuku Neshamwari traditional dance competition. The Jikinya festival is meant for primary schools and the Chibuku NeShamwari is meant for everyone above 18 years.
8 lut 2019 · A primer into the jit, chimurenga, sungura, Tuku sound and mbira pop of post-independence Zimbabwe – and how the music fared in the face of political turmoil, public health crises and personal tragedy.
31 paź 2023 · Zimbabwean music has its roots deeply embedded in the ancient cultures and traditions of its diverse ethnic groups. These traditions have been passed down through generations, forming the foundation upon which modern Zimbabwean music is built.
Turino eschews simplistic, straightforward historical narrations of music in Zimbabwe. After following the thread of indigenous music and dance between 1930 and 1960, tracing the nationalist efforts to exploit the emotion generated by music in the early 1960s and the chimurenga songs of the 1970s, in Chapter Five, Turino takes his readers back ...
Zimbabwean Musical Genres. Chimurenga – Popular style of music from the Shona people of Zimbabwe developed by Thomas Mapfumo in the 1980s. It is based on the sound of the mbira. Chumurenga means “liberation struggle music.”.
Departing from a purely musicological perspective, this book also analyses the different musical realities in the Zimbabwean musical culture, such as Zimdancehall, mbira, sungura and chimurenga.
