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Title: | Oliver Mtukudzi as a cultural activist: exploring Africanity in Tuku Music | Authors: | Maganga, Allan T. Tembo, Charles Chikara, Tendai Owen |
Keywords: | Culture Activist Africanity Afrocentricity Multicultural |
Issue Date: | 2022 | Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. | Series/Report no.: | The Life and Music of Oliver Mtukudzi: Chitando, E., Mateveke, P., Nyakudya, M., Chinouriri, B. (eds);Chapter: p. 107-119 | Abstract: | This chapter critically engages Oliver Mtukudzi’s lyrical compositions, Tsika Dzedu (Our cultural traditions) and Mwana Wamambo (The Prince/Princess). While utilizing these selected renditions among the musician’s musical corpus, the chapter notes that Mtukudzi’s music is both functional and valid art for it advances Africanity in a multicultural context. It further argues that such cultural activism and reconstructive agenda permeating the selected lyrical renditions demonstrate that Tuku is a musician par-excellence since he is an embodiment of Shona and/or African culture. This, in turn, makes Tuku more of a cultural hero; the chapter argues that Mtukudzi’s art is art-for-life’s sake. The appreciation of these selected songs is hinged on analytic Afrocentricity as defined by Asante (An Afrocentric Manifesto: Toward an African Renaissance. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007: 41) who posits that; “when Afrocentricity is employed in analysis or criticism, it opens the way for examination of all issues related to the African world.” | URI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80728-3_8 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4827 |
ISBN: | 978-3-030-80727-6 978-3-030-80728-3 |
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