Colonial resettlement and cultural resistance

The mbira music of Zimbabwe

Bibliographic Data

ID5081334
AuthorsCoralie Hancock-Barnett (Aberystwyth University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume13
Issue1
Pages11-27
Publication date2012-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2011.635799
OpenAlexW1970572292
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited45

Across the colonial world, indigenous people were subjected to extensive resettlement projects that removed them from the lands of their ancestors, separating them from their economic foundations, disrupting their resource security and severing their cultural heritage. Many geographical studies have explored the ways in which indigenous communities, faced with resettlement, transgressed colonial space to express their resistance to the authority of colonial agents. This article examines the resistance of Zimbabwe's Shona population to colonial resettlement between the late 1800s and independence in 1980. But rather than focusing on landscapes of power or the mobility of indigenous people to plot politicised resistance to resettlement, I examine the way in which the musical landscapes of the Shona enabled them to resist the destructive cultural implications of resettlement. Framed within geographies of colonialism, resettlement and music, this article sets out the significance of the ancestral lands for the Shona before uncovering the way in which music enabled them to carry those lands with them to the resettlement areas, thereby preserving both culture and identity that could later be reinstated to sustain cultural nationalism during the struggle for independence

Aesthetics · Colonialism · Cultural identity · Identity (music · Independence (probability theory · Indigenous · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Population · Resistance (ecology · Shona · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Ecology

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