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Lion Songs : Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe by Eyre, Banning is a music available to read on EtoBox.
What is Lion Songs : Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe about?
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 evol
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Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Eyre, Banning
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822359081
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Memoir, International, Biography
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (9 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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