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This work focuses on the development of a unique style of music - combining the electric guitar with indigenous Shona music - that emerged in Zimbabwe during the 1980s. Turino examines this emergence of cosmopolitan culture among the black middle classes, and how it influenced politics.

Nationalists Cosmopolitans and Popular Music in

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1 December 2000
      ISBN-13 9780226817026
      978-0226817026
      ISBN-10 0226817024
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      Global or regional music styles Traditional and folk music Political ideologies and movements

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      Book Synopsis
      This work focuses on the development of a unique style of music - combining the electric guitar with indigenous Shona music - that emerged in Zimbabwe during the 1980s. Turino examines this emergence of cosmopolitan culture among the black middle classes, and how it influenced politics.

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