What is it about?
Contemporary popular Zimbabwean music genres - urban grooves and Zimdancehall emerged and continue to exist at a time Zimbabwe is facing an economic and political turmoil. The article examines how music has become an important form of artistic dissent especially for young musicians.
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Why is it important?
The article shows that besides being a source of entertainment for young people, contemporary Zimbabwean music details the struggles of ordinary Zimbabwean especially the youth living at the margins of the country's economy. The music is also a source of power that fosters a response resonating with a postcolonial urban youth cultural activism seeking to empower the ordinary Zimbabweans.
Perspectives
I believe that this article will open up scholarly conversations on the significance of contemporary Zimbabwean music especially considering how it locates the music within the Zimbabwean political context.
Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga
University of the Free State
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This page is a summary of: Contemporary Zimbabwean popular music in the context of adversities, Tydskrif vir letterkunde, March 2018, Academy of Science of South Africa,
DOI: 10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i1.1583.
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